These days your productivity equals your income for a number of jobs. Web designing is hardly an exclusion. The more projects you accomplish the more you earn. That’s why skilled web designers are scarcely trying to invent the wheel. They take advantage of websites offering gorgeous free web-design resources and they are not ashamed of this. Don’t know where to peek to pick on the best free resources on the web yet? We’ve got an answer for you as we’ve collected the ultimate bunch of free web-design resources for 2018.
Are you eager to save time working on the next project and further on? Join us and uncover the resources presented below.
Best Color Freebies
Coolors | The super-fast color schemes generator!
With Coolors, choosing the chick and sleek color scheme for your website is simple. The tool gives you access to more than 700K color palettes designed by its users. Most importantly it lets you create your own color palette and export it in a couple of clicks. The free trial for using this tool is 3 month. So, you’ll have pretty enough time to enjoy using it free.
Gradients.io by Luke Davies
Gradient backgrounds are hot this year. Achieve the needed effect with the help from Luke’s website. There, you’ll find a number of ready-made gradients with their HEX values provided. Just copy the values and add the needed gradient to your image.
Material Design Palette Tool – Material Design Color Palette Generator Tool
It’s widely discussed that material design sees its comeback this year. You can hop on the bandwagon by using this comprehensive material design color scheme generator. Choose two main colors, and it will provide you with a ready-made material color palette. Simple as that!
Paletton – The Color Scheme Designer
Paletton is an iconic color picker tool that’s loved by many professional web designers. It gives you a variety of options in terms of color schemes and lets you generate your dream color scheme, no matter how complex it is.
Best Free Icon Sets
Free Icons Library by icons8
icons8 manage to bring you as much as 64K icons at absolutely no cost. Choose among the most popular sets, search to uncover something special, recolor your icons in 1 click and download them for free. This all is possible thanks to this great online free icon library.
The Noun Project – Icons for Everything
The Noun Project brings you tons of curated items absolutely free of charge. You can browse the best icons or search icons by keyword. What’s more, you can recolor the icons prior to downloading in a couple of clicks and download them after that.
30 Isometric Icon Set by GraphicBurger
If your project deals with the world of business, accounting and finance, the icon set that GraphicBurger brings you is invaluable. All the 30 flat isomeric icons are fully-editable and come in various .png image sizes.
Material Design Webfont by Austin Andrews
The simple yet polished icon set by Austin Andrews has multiple applications. You can use the icons as a web font or, edit their vector version or embed them as svg or xamp files. Google Material Icons are also added to the package as a nice bonus.
Free Graphic Resources Databases
PSD Repo
UI kits, app designs, stunning mockups, free website templates, icons, imagery, fonts and more –you can find all this on the minimalist PSD Repo website. Take your time to discover the brightest highlights, and it can be the case that the next one will inspire for your new project.
Fribbble
Dribble has its own free version called Fribbble. Here you can find tons of free PSD files and other resources uploaded by Dribblers. The main freebie categories are Free Fonts, Mockups, UI Kits, Icons, Website Templates and Patterns & Textures.
Graphic Burger – Tasty design resources made with care for each pixel
Another great website with freebies only. Dig deep into their collection of free recourses, and you’ll find the one that’s perfect for your project. Most noteworthy, they have a separate Backgrounds section that lets you save up a lot on stock imagery.
DBF – Dribble and Behance Freebies
Thanks to DFB, you don’t have to browse the huge collections of resources on Behance and Dribble to find the free ones. On DFB website, you’ll find more than one thousand recent freebies, including stock imagery, backgrounds, fonts, icons, templates, UI kits and more.
Free Typography
Fontspiration by SFCD
Fontspiration is a free app that lets you create your own typographical masterpieces to use them later in your projects. With it, you’ve got a chance to not only experiment with 963 free fonts, but to add flair and motion to your fonts and backgrounds. To disappoint all the Android lovers, the app is iOS only.
Font Combinations by Canva
Finding the perfect font combo for your next project may be daunting unless you use Font Combinations. Choose the font you like from the drop-down list on the website, and you’ll learn what its best partner font is. Moreover, you’ll see whether you should use the chosen font for headings or body text. Real-world examples of font combinations are also provided on the right.
Font Squirrel – 100% Free for Commercial Use
If your appetite for creative fonts is not satiated with the collection of Google Web Fonts, Font Squirrel is a go-to place to find your next free font. The website also offers you Font Generator and Font Identifier tools to please even the most demanding web designers.
Type-o-matic Firefox Extension
Type-o-matic is a highly usable Firefox extension that lets you identify the fonts on any webpage. So, if you see a beautiful font on the web, you won’t get lost. With Type-o-matic, learning the name of this font is simple.
Web Design Inspiration
CoDrops
If you want to wrap your head around web design and development, CoDrops is a great web source to find tutorials, practice in the playground, and use their design blueprints in your project or as design inspiration. What’s more, they issue a weekly collective, which assembles the most inspiring designs that popped-up on the web during the last week.
MonsterPost: Free Web Templates
TemplateMonster is one of the major online markets selling templates. Nevertheless, they’ve got a great blog on web design that covers web design trends and innovations. Most importantly, they don’t feature their stuff only. Browsing the blog, you’ll find tons of free resources to enrich your future projects (for instance, free Web templates).
From Up North
From Up North is a crisp and trendy mobile magazine to continuously enjoy the new batches of web design inspiration. The website features mostly creative designs rather than technical stuff, so it’s a to-go place to add some conceptuality and uniqueness to your projects.
Let’s Wrap Up!
That’s it for today! Now, you’re supercharged with tons of great resources to browse and tons of freebies to upload at no cost. We wish you creativity, inspiration and tons of success in your upcoming 2018 web design endeavors. Stay tuned for more!
