A big ole list of design resources. What would you add?

Design Tools

• Figma
  Figma replaced our Illustrator workflow literally overnight.

• Canva
  Improve your social media content with simple templates. Great for Instagram Reels and TikTok.

• Webflow
  Are you a designer with no formal web design experience? Webflow is what you want. Like Figma, it’s drastically changing the landscape of frontend design and development.

• Remove.bg
  Don’t have photoshop? Remove a background in seconds.

• Miro
  A more comprehensive whiteboard option compared to Figjam. It gets a lot of use internally for design feedback.

Typography

• Typewolf
  The OG typography nerd. A great source for inspiration and trend research.

• Friends of Type
  A personal journal from it’s creators exploring typographic design and lettering

• Alphabettes
  Alphabettes is a showcase for work, commentary, and research on lettering, typography, and type design

• WhatTheFont!
  What font is that? Works most of the time, and gets you really close even when it doesn’t.

• Adobe Fonts
  Font managing sucks, but Adobe Fonts makes it pretty simple.

Figma Plugins

• Mockuuups Studio
  Our favorite mockup plugin for Figma.

• Blush
  Create and customize illustrations in your designs with Blush.

• Image Tracer
  Quickly create vectors from graphic elements. Genuinely works better than Illustrator’s tracing options for simple designs.

• SmoothShadow
  A personal favorite, because I still use the original for web work.

• Unsplash
  2 million free high-resolution images.

• Selective Surgery
  Bulk editing made easy.

Marketplaces

• Creative Market
  Great resource for finding high quality design elements.

• True Grit Texture Supply
  High quality textures, brushes and templates for Photoshop, Illustrator and Procreate.

• GARM Co.
  The Graphic Artist Resource Merchant Company is a platform for people to find digital resources like educational video classes, brush sets, texture packs, fonts and other designer goodies.

• Studio 2am
  A independent market for premium creative assets, effects and templates.

Color

• Huemint
  An incredibly powerful tool that uses machine learning to create unique color schemes.

• @color.nerd
  A color nerd on Tiktok, for all your really nerdy color needs.

• Picular
  The color of anything.

• Adobe Color Wheel
  A comprehensive color tool from your friends at Adobe.

• Coolors
  An extensive color palette generator.

• Canva Color Palette Generator
  Extract a color palette from your photos.

Optimization

• TinyPNG
  TinyPNG uses smart lossy compression techniques to reduce the file size of your WEBP, JPEG and PNG files.

• reSmush.it
  reSmush is a free API that provides image optimization.

• Nano – Compress SVGs
  Did you know you can minify your SVGs? Now you do.

Web Design

• Hero Patterns
  A collection of repeatable SVG background patterns for you to use on your web projects.

• Smooth Shadow
  Make the smoothest CSS shadows known to man.

• Shader Park
  Shader Park is an open source web-based platform and community for creating real-time 3D graphics and animations using code.

• Plain Pattern
  An SVG based seamless pattern maker.

• CSS Gradients
  Simple CSS gradient generator.

Inspiration

• Savee
  It’s like ffffound but for 2022 (RIP ffffound).

• Booooooom
  The OG art and design blog is still growing strong.

• Awwwards
  Web design inspiration.

• Designspiration
  Another pin board style inspiration resource.

• Abduzeedo
  Abduzeedo is a collective of individual writers sharing articles about design, photography, and UX.

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