A growing list of useful URLs
Legal
licenses
- Open Source Initiative overview of software licenses
- Apache licenses
- GNU licenses
- BSD licenses
- Open Font license
- Creative Commons licenses
Dev
Misc
- Tiny Helpers collection of online tools for web devs
- Nanoid collision calculator Calculate likelyhood of collisions during UUID generation
- Badges Generator Generate SVG Badges for Markdown files
- Google Fonts Search and use fonts (mixed licenses)
- Can I use? Browser support for Web features
- The Stocks Collection of Web resources of all kinds (images, icons, fonts, colors…)
- Hacker News
- Glitch Co up dev
Images
Free, for commercial and non-commercial purposes, without permission (see exact license and ToS for restrictions)
- Unsplash Freely usable images (license)
- Stocksnap (Creative Commons CC0 license)
- Reshot Freely usable images (license) (ToS)
- Mesh Gradients Free Mesh Gradient Collection (not CSS) (license)
- Duotone Put color filters on Unsplash images (ToS)
- Pixabay (license)
- Wordpress.org Openverse (mixed licenses, a Creative Commons License or Public Domain)
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Other
- Uifaces aggregates various free avatar placeholder sources that you can use in your design mockups
- Pngtree Royalty Free PNG Images, Vectors, Backgrounds… (license)
- Getty Images Royalty Free (license)
- Shopify Burst collections of royalty-free images (ToS)
- Tookapic
- Shutterstock
- Istockphoto
Icons
Tools
- Icônes Icon Explorer of many icon sets with search feature and Licensing Info
- Custom Icons Choose your own icons from various different icon sets and generate a CSS file with only those icons as inlined data-URIs
- CSS Cube Generator
Design, colors and CSS
Imo Best
- FlatUiColors Color palettes
- UnoCSS interactive UnoCSS (and Windicss) Interactive docs
- Gradienthunt Fancy gradients
- Colorhunt Color palettes
- Colour Code Color palette generator
- Colordot Color palette generator
- Wowpatterns Lots of patterns FREE LICENSE WITH ATTRIBUTION, COMMERCIAL LICENSE - NO ATTRIBUTION
UX / UI inspiration
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Colors & Color palettes
Palette Generators
Gradients
- Grabient
- Uigradients
- Coolhue
- Blend Gradient generator
Misc
SVG stuff
Generators
- SVG Path Visualizer OSS
- SVG Filter Builder Make ultra complex SVG filters
- Fecolormatrix “Easily generate nice looking color matrix filters for your images”
- Patternpad SVG funky shapes generator
- Magicpattern Another SVG funky shapes generator
- Paaatterns “Free collection of beautiful patterns for all vector formats”
- Repper Yet another funky shapes generator (14 Day access, then Paywall)
- Haikei Make shapes and stuff
- SVG Wave Make SVG waves
- Smashingmagazine Article with more generators
Drawing / Design Apps Web based
- Excalidraw whiteboard tool that lets you sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them
- Tldraw tiny little drawing app (similar to excalidraw)
- Figma common for designing web pages
- Piskel create pixelart and animations