Web Design Resources

At Inova, we are all about helping our clients, our website visitors, and everybody trying to get stuff done. We have collected some of the best web design, web development, and graphic design resources to help you get started fast and easy with all your projects.

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Graphics, stock photos, backgrounds, vectors, icons, patterns, gradients, illustrations, brushes, images, and video resources

A collection of the best graphic resources like SVG vectors, illustrations, icons, textures, patterns, photographs, images, videos, backgrounds, gradients, fonts, and videos.

Freepik

One of the most complete graphic sources out there, Freepik offers both free and premium subscriptions to get access to millions of vectors, photos, illustrations, presentation templates, brochure templates, business cards templates, flyer templates, PSD banners, icons, and many more graphic resources.

Vecteezy

Vecteezy is a very popular and comprehensive vector library website that offers both free and premium vector plans. The vector library offers backgrounds, illustrations, banners, flyers, brochures, business cards, and so many more. You will enjoy the easy to navigate website.

Unsplash

A great website that provides great free high-resolution images submitted by professional photographers from all around the world.

Gratisography

Free creative and unique stock images and photography with a different approach. Gratisography focuses more on quality photography than quantity. As stated on their website, they offer the world’s quirkiest collection of stock images and creative photos you won’t find anywhere else.

Retro Supply Co

RetroSupply is one of the most extensive collections of premium vintage and retro graphics. It includes a comprehensive list of brushes, textures, backgrounds, and fonts for Photoshop, Illustrator, Procreate, and Affinity. They also offer some graphic design freebies and excellent tutorials.

Openpeeps.com

Openpeeps offes a great library of free hand drawing illustrations for Figma, Adobe XD, and Sketch.

https://www.openpeeps.com/

Pexels

Pexels offers creative stock images that are contributed by photographers and creative artists around the world. Their stock photo library provides a large collection of creative photos, images, and videos that can help customize your next graphic or web design project.

Pikwizard

Free high-quality stock images, photos, and videos. Pikwizard offers a great UI/UX in the homepage which makes it easy to filter photos by categories in the main menu.

Brusheezy

Brusheezy offers a collection of Photoshop brushes, patterns, textures, gradients, backgrounds, shapes, and PSD graphics. If you are a Photoshop user, you will find this website very useful and easy to navigate.

123rf

Stock images, vectors, and video clips resources at affordable prices. 123rf offers a great variety of graphic sources in a subscription plan and on-demand (credits). We have used 123rf for some projects and find it very affordable compared to other premium graphic design resources.

Envato Elements

Envato Elements is another popular premium collection of assets for graphic designers, marketers, web designers, and developers. With the yearly premium subscription, you get access to stock images, vectors, fonts, backgrounds, fonts, gradients, and so much more.

Iso Republic

Thousands of free stock images and videos that you can use both personally and commercially. Their catalog offers some unique and creative photos and videos.

Freebiesbug

Freebiesbug is a website that collects, recommends, promotes, and advertises graphic and web design resources for different software platforms. From icons, mockups, and UI kits to website templates, fonts, and photos, you can find lots of free and premium resources all on one website from an easy to use interface.

Icons8

Wheater you are a graphic designer, web designer, marketer, SEO specialist, or web developer, you can benefit from the large Icons8 library. Do not let the name fool you – they offer more than just icons. We have added the list of all of the great unique design resources, graphics, vectors, music, creative stock photos and tools they provide to help you achieve your goals.

VectorStock

VectorStock is a vector-only image marketplace with millions of vectors in their catalog. They are one of the most popular choices for creatives looking for vector-based assets. They offer affordable premium plans and some of the vectors are free to download. You can find logos, backgrounds, illustrations, flyers, business cards, invitations, infographics, patterns, and so much more.

If you are a creative designer, you can share your designs while earning a commission with VectorStock. Visit their FAQ’s to learn more about how to sell your creative vectors with VectorStock.

Creative Market

Creative Market offers ready to use design assets at affordable prices. Their catalog offers unique and creative designs that include graphics, photos, templates, fonts, brushes, gradients, backgrounds, shapes, plugins, 3D assets, characters, illustrations, color palettes, software, and plugins. They have one of the top creative asset catalogs for designers and developers. Most of their assets are premium, they do offer some freebies for designers.

You Work For Them

YouWorkForThem is an asset graphics catalog that offers photos, videos, graphics, fonts, brushes, and other types of assets that are compatible with different software programs. In the extra assets section, you’ll find Procreate, PSD, Ai, audio, vector brushes, and Lightroom. If you are a graphic designer, artist, or web designer, you will find this resourceful site to be a great addition to your arsenal.

Canva

Canva is a design platform that allows you to design and create media graphics, presentations, posters, infographics, business cards, flyers, and other visual content so that you can print it or publish it anywhere. The easy to use drag and drop interface allows you to use your own graphics, photos, or use many of the design templates they offer. It’s an excellent tool for those looking for a quick and easy way to create visual content. Canva is great for both beginners and experts.

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CraftWork Design

A great resource for graphic designers, developers and website designers looking for UX/UI graphic layouts, illustrations, mockups, templates, and tons of freebies. CraftWork offers one of the most beautiful graphics for busy designers.

DrawKit

A free collection of illustrations and icons for your next web design project. Colorful, beautiful, and handdrwan web design illustrations.

Pixeden

Pixeden offers free and premium graphic, design and web resources that include templates, icons, vectors, graphics, WordPress themes, HTML templates, email templates, wireframing templates, and print assets. They offer lots of free resources. Their subscription monthly plan is very affordable and totally worth it due to the massive amount of assets they provide.

Pixel Surplus

Premium fonts, graphics, textures, templates, mockups, and addons in different formats. They offer some great free resources.

Creative Fabrica

Premium fonts, graphics, crafts, and embroidery assets in great resolution. Some free resources available and some tools are available.

Vector Arte

Creative modern illustration in different formats including vectors. Creative modern illustration in different formats, including vectors. Vector arte offers one of the most unique creative vector illustrations on the web. The main vector categories are creative, society, business, data, web design, technology, health, marketing, social media, education, and lifestyle.

LS Graphics

Design Cuts

Fonts, graphics, backgrounds.

The Stocks

Icons, fonts, video, mockups.

Mazwai

Stock video.

SlidesGo

Flat UI Colors

Flat design color palette picker.

Flat Icon

Web icons.

Web Fonts

Dafont

A widely used font source for web designers and web developers, Dafont has one of the largest free font libraries on the web. Easy to download and install fonts.

Google Fonts

Free collection of fonts with a huge library provided by Google. You can directly download the fonts to your computer and host them on your server, or you can directly use their CDN (content delivery network) free of charge.

Creative Market

Widely used by graphic designers initially, Creative Market has become one of the most complete web design resources used by designers and developers. They offer graphic vectors, illustrations, fonts, web design templates, textures, patterns.

Pixel Surplus

Premium fonts, graphics, textures, vectors, illustrations with some freebies. A great source for graphic designers to give your projects that unique, custom visual appeal.

Envato Elements – Fonts

Envato Elements is one of the most popular sources for web designers, graphic designers, and web developers also provides some good sources of fonts. Their Fonts webpage provides an excellent user interface with a sidebar for the filters.

Web Development Resources | Resources for Web Developers

Ui Gradients – CSS gradient generator – UI gradients offer one the fastest and easiest way to create CSS gradients. You can create your custom gradients, or use one of the pre-designed ones. You can also contribute and submit your gradients. We have used this great tool to quickly implement gradient backgrounds using CSS and avoid the usage of big image file sizes.

SVG Backgrounds

Collection of customizable SVG-based repeating patterns and backgrounds for websites.

Codepen

Codepen is a great website for testing and showcasing user-created code snippets. Codepen is an open-source learning environment and an online code editor. Codepen offers a free and pro version.

W3 Schools

W3Schools is an educational website for learning web technologies online. W3Schools is an excellent resource for web developers that features web tutorials with examples that you can try, edit, and change with the purpose of learning. From HTML, CSS, and Javascript to Phyton, Angular, Node.js, and Java, W3Schools have been helping millions of people to learn to code around the world.

Bootstrap

Bootstrap is one of the most popular frameworks to develop responsive websites. It provides all you need to start developing responsive websites that will look amazing regardless of the screen size and device type. It is one of the main responsive frameworks we use for developing websites.

Foundation Zurb

Foundation is another less popular responsive front-end framework. It is also open source and pretty similar to Bootstrap.

Skeleton

Skeleton is a less popular framework for developing front-end responsive web technologies. Stated in their homepage, Skeleton is “A dead simple, responsive boilerplate.” With less than 400 lines of code, it is one of the lightest responsive frameworks.

Pingdom

Pingdom is an online tool to help you monitor and measure the performance of your website. It offers a free online page speed test to help you make informed decisions about the performance of your webpages.

Github

Github is one of the largest source code repositories in the world. Web developers use Github to share, collaborate, and manage web projects with people around the world.

FontAwesome

Popular icon framework based on CSS. It’s widely used among web designers and developers.

Palette.Site

A web app that includes browser extensions to extract color palettes from webpages. A great tool for designers and front-end developers. Free colour scheme extraction.

Marketing, Content, Performance, and SEO Resources

Easel.ly

Infographic maker.

Fiverr

Web app for hiring freelance services like content writers, and graphic designers.

Giphy

Popular website for creating gif images.

Pingdom

Performance website for testing site speed.

XML Sitemaps

Sitemap generator and SEO analizer website.

SSLS – NameCheap

Affordable SSL certificates.

Ubbersuggest

SEO tool to analyze backlinks, domain authority, keyword suggestions, and top-ranked pages on websites.

Printing Resources, Signs, Labels, Stickers, Business Cards, Flyers

Uprinting

Business cards, flyers, banners, signs.

Shortrun Posters

Printing of posters in different sizes. Upload your own designs.

Short Run Posters

Custom poster printing in different sizes. Great quality and affordable.

Best Of Signs

Banners, signs, stickers.

RedBubble

Shirts, mugs, hoodies, stickers.

Rockin Monkey

Stickers, labels.

Sticker Mule

Stickers, labels.

Moo

Flyers, business cards, letterheads.

Graphic Design, Web Design, & Web Development Software

GIMP

GIMP is a free and open-source graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats and more specialized tasks. Available for Mac and Windows users.

Inkscape

Inkscape is mainly used to create and edit vector graphics such as SVG logos, icons, line graphics, diagrams, illustrations, and some other vector-based drawings.

Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is one of the most used graphics and image editor. Available for Mac and Windows users.

Sketch

It’s a professional design tool that utilizes a fully vector-based workflow. For Mac users only.

Affinity Designer

Affinity Designer is a vector graphics editor developed by Serif for macOS, iOS, and Microsoft Windows.

Affinity Photo

Affinity Photo is a graphic design editing software developed for macOS, iOS, and Windows. Affinity Photo is a robust, low-cost image editing program that offers some great features.

KAP Screen Recorder

Kap is an excellent open-source screen recording app that allows you to screen record full or partial sections of your screen for free.

Web Development Resources

Brackets – Brackets is a free code editor mainly used by web designers and web developers. Brackets focus primarily on front-end development. It is an excellent asset for editing code on your computer. Especially suited to macOS, you will enjoy writing code in Brackets.

Web Design Resources