Below are some of my favourite free online design resources that I’ve discovered over my career that I use regularly, especially for agile design. I’ve put them here hoping that you’ll get the same utility from them as I have.
Icons
Material Design Icons
•https://materialdesignicons.com/
Community-powered icons to match Google’s material design guidelines, advanced export options available.
Font Awesome
•https://fontawesome.com/
Easily embed vector icons in-line on a webpage, great for social media icons.
Emojipedia
•https://emojipedia.org/
If all else fails. Emojipedia has every emoji across all popular devices, useful for email marketing where html/css may not be supported.
Colours
Material Design Colors
•https://www.materialui.co/colors
The best material design color palette picker I’ve come across, also features fluent UI colours, flat UI colours, social colours, and more.
uiGradients
•https://uigradients.com/
Easily preview and copy gradient hex values. Combine a gradient from here and an icon from https://materialdesignicons.com/ for a fast app icon or logo.
Stock Photos
Unsplash
•https://unsplash.com/
High quality and completely free (for noncommercial or commercial purposes) stock photos.
Pexels
•https://www.pexels.com/
See above.
Typefaces
DaFont
•https://www.dafont.com/
Excellent site for finding typefaces by license type (100% free, shareware, personal use, etc). Tip: use the ⬅️ & ➡️ arrow keys to navigate.
Other Stuff
Google Poly
•https://poly.google.com/
Googles solution to making AR and VR easier to develop for by providing community-driven 3D objects. Developer portal recently released at https://developers.google.com/poly/. Amazing potential, will probably be discontinued.
Social Media Image Sizes
•https://sproutsocial.com/insights/social-media-image-sizes-guide/
An always up-to-date guide to social media image sizes.
Monthly Freebies from Envato
•https://elements.envato.com/
A selection of free assets every month from Envato.
More Monthly Freebies from Envato?
•https://themeforest.net/
A selection of more free assets every month from Envato via ThemeForest… I don’t really get it either.