The collections of free design resources and graphic design tools. I listed many graphic design resources that make it possible to generate and create useful graphics.

The importance of free graphic design resources cannot be overstated. In today’s world of too much information, too little time, and competition, knowing where to get inspiration for your next project and how to use it effectively is essential.

These will be useful for anyone from creative beginners to experienced web designers looking for new and unique designs to add to their portfolios or businesses without having to spend a lot of time looking for them.

As a freelancer, I regularly save the links that I think might be useful. Thanks to this constant and steady habit, I saved thousands of bookmarks related to design & development over the years. I will share my free design resources and graphic design tools collection. You’ll find a bunch of free and freemium tools that will make your design process more straightforward.

Free Design Resources Part I – Generator Apps

These tools generate design resources for you. They are simple tools but generate effective patterns and code. Those are free design resources that you can tweak and use them.

Snowflake Generator

Mesh Gradients Collection

100 Beautiful Mesh Gradients – Free Download

100 Blocks. Fully customizable. Light and Dark mode. Figma compatible. HTML coming soon!

3D Image Transformer

An Image transformer tool. You can rotate on the X, Y, and Z-axis, add perspective, and zoom.

3D Transformer – 3D rotate images online and in Figma

My new description

Wicked: Background SVG Generator

A background SVG generator.

Create beautiful SVG backgrounds for your UI designs.

Create beautiful SVG backgrounds for your UI designs.

Poet: Tweet Images

Create awesome images from tweets.

Poet.so | Create Beautiful Images of Twitter Posts

Capture and share Twitter posts as beautiful images.

Image Comparison Tool

An image comparison tool.

Compare to Dev – Image comparison tool

Design ScreenChoose a fileor drag image here!

Glass UI

A free CSS generator based on the glassmorphism design specifications to quickly design and customize the style properties.

Glassmorphism CSS Generator – Glass UI

Generate CSS and HTML components using the glassmorphism design specifications based on the Glass UI library.

Mockfire

This web app allows you to easily create social media posts mockups.

Facebook Mockups

Create Quick and Easy Facebook Mockups.

Brush Ninja

An animated GIF creator.

Brush Ninja

Create animations in your browser, on your desktop or phone, for free. No software needed.

Blobbb

A fun way to create a relatively customizable SVG blob.

Blobbb

Get your fluffy blobby SVG shapes in seconds

Haikei

Haikei is a suite of freemium design resource generators.

Generate unique SVG design assets | Haikei

A web-based design tool to generate unique SVG design assets for websites, social media, blog posts, desktop and mobile wallpapers, posters, and more! Our generators let you discover, customize, randomize, and export generative SVG design assets ready to use with your favorite design tools.

Duotone Generator

Generate awesome duotone graphics.

Duotone by ShapeFactory | Create Beautiful Free Duotones

Find beautiful free duotone images to use in any project, or make custom duotone images by uploading your own image and applying a duotone effect in seconds.

Material Design Icon Generator

Google Fonts

Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography

Shotsnap Mockups

shotsnapp – Create beautiful mockup presentation

A simple tool to quickly create beautiful mockup presentation for your digital app and website design

Headline & Title Generator

Figen – Post Cover & Background Generator Tool – Figen

Free online post cover and background generator tool

TryShape

TryShape allows you to get pre-made SVG shapes.

TryShape – Create, Export, Share, and Use any Shapes of your choice.

TryShape is an opensource platform to create shapes of your choice using a simple, easy-to-use interface.

3D Globe Generator

Globe 3D

Create an Interactive 3D globe based on your flat world map design. Try the figma plugin or upload an image to see it live in action.

CSS Filter Generator

CSS Filters Generator – Modify images with CSS only | JustCode.today

Online tool for web developers. Generate cross-browser CSS rules to modify images.

3D Iphone Mock Generator

THINGS | MORFLAX

3D device mockup builder in your browser

Noise Generator

CSS & SVG Filter

Online CSS & Javascript tools for web developers | JustCode.today

Online CSS & Javascript tools for web developers. Free to use, codepen enabled. | JustCode.today

Advanced Blog Generator

Blobmixer

A toy for creating and sharing 3D blobs

CSS Shapes

Pre-made shapes that is completely written by CSS code.

The Shapes of CSS | CSS-Tricks

CSS is capable of making all sorts of shapes. Squares and rectangles are easy, as they are the natural shapes of the web. Add a width and height and you

Animista

Easily copy and paste the CSS animations.

Animista

Animista is a place where you can play with a collection of ready to use CSS animations, tweak them and download only those you will actually use.

Text Column Generator

Split your text through columns by CSS.

Online CSS Multi Column Generator

Split your text in columns for a better readablility with the column-count CSS property. Set up your preferences while you’re watching the live preview

Text Shadow CSS Generator

Pre-made text shadows from Mixfont. Easily copy and paste the CSS code.

Mixfont | A modern font generator

Whether you’re designing a website or writing a paper, Mixfont is simple way to choose beautiful fonts that work well together.

Clip Path Generator

Easily create a clip-path with this free design generator from Uplabs.

Clip Path Generator

A simple clip-path generator made with React. It uses CSS variables to update the node positions for the clip-path and supports the various clip-path styles. Enjoy!

CSS Stripes Generator

SVG Shape

A simple SVG shape generator with minimal options.

SVG Shape Generator – Create SVG shapes for your designs

A free SVG shape generator to create beautiful SVG blob shapes for your web design. Supports gradient, complexity levels and more!

Animated Header

This advanced tool provides animated headers with rich customization options.

Glassmorphism Generator

I personally didn’t like neuromorphic so much. However, this year’s trend is awesome. Probably, you are familiar with it. Here is the glassmorphism generator that produces CSS.

Glassmorphism – simple CSS generator

Glassmorphism is a unified name for the popular Frosted Glass aesthetic.

Get Waves

Get Waves is a web app that produces wave patterns in SVG format. Thus, you can manipulate them easily.

Get Waves – Create SVG waves for your next design

A free SVG wave generator to make unique SVG waves for your next web design. Choose a curve, adjust complexity, randomize!

SVG Waves

Another generator that produces wave patterns in SVG or PNG formats.

Svg Wave – A free & beautiul gradient SVG wave Generator.

SVG Wave is a minimal gradient svg wave generator with lot of customization. It lets you abiltiy to generate and export pngs and svgs of beautiful waves. SVG wave also lets you layer multiple waves. Create SVGs for your website designs.

Faux Code Generator

This app requires a link to any GitHub gist. When you provide the source code, the web app transforms it into faux code graphics.

Faux Code Generator

Turn real code into faux code.

Neumorphism CSS Generator

This web app allows you to create neumorphism CSS code that you tweak visually.

Neumorphism/Soft UI CSS shadow generator

CSS code generator that will help with colors, gradients and shadows to adapt this new design trend or discover its posibilities.

Soft UI

Another free design resource that makes it possible to build neuromorphic style code.

Glitch Art

The glitch art generator produces glitch patterns.

Glitch Art Generator

Create and share beautiful gradient glitch art wallpapers.

Fancy Border Generator

This online design resource allows you to make custom shape borders.

Fancy Border Radius Generator

Generator to build organic shapes with CSS3 border-radius

Components.ai

This design resource actually a suit. It consists of many design generator that is produced by machine learning algorithms. Gradients, color scales, Voronoi, and bootstrap color palette generator.

Components AI — A new way to explore generative design systems

Parametric and generative design tools

Material Shadow

It allows you to add shadows to your icons. You can also select predefined material icons.

Android Material Icon Generator

Icons with that loooooong material shadow.

Technology Bullshit Generator

If you need flashy words, then this app makes it for you. It creates a flashy but bullshit word generator.

Tech Bullshit Generator

Generate fresh tech bullshit with our online bullshit generator.

Squircley

Squircley generates a shape neither square nor circle. You can tweak it as you want.

Squircley | SVG Squircle Maker

Create and export beautiful SVG squircles to use in your designs!

Shape Divider

It divides the shape 🙂 You realized that some kinds of divided shapes is well suited on landing pages. You can do that kind of shape with this design resource.

Shape Divider App

Create fully responsive shape dividers for your next web project

Blobs

Decorative blob generator tool.

Blobs – Generate beautiful blob shapes for web and flutter apps

Customizable blobs as SVG and Flutter Widget. Create random or fixed blobs, loop, animate, clip them with ease

Omatsuri Suite

Omatsuri is not a single graphic design tool. It is actually a free design resources suit. You can find many useful graphic design resources such as triangle generators, wave generators, color shades, and color palette generators.

Omatsuri

Progressive Web Application with 12 open source frontend focused tools

Blog Cover Generator

Easy blog post cover generator.

BlogCover – Generate Cover Image Online

Properties

Patternico

A pattern generator.

Doodad

Yet another pattern generator

Tabbied

Doodle with generated patterns.

Tabbied

We aim to build simple design tools that energize your creativity. Tabbied was initially developed as a tool for making wall art, but we quickly realized that it could be used for many other purposes. We’re very excited to see what you can make using out platform.

BG Jar

Very useful background pattern generator which can export your design in various formats such as CSS, SVG, or PNG.

Free svg background generator

Free svg background generator for your websites, blogs and app.

PixelTrue Animated Background Generators

A free animate generator in various AI, SVG, PNG, MP4, and GIF formats.

Beautiful Background Animations & Illustrations

A collection of 60+ free beautiful background scenes from around the globe – illustrated and animated! Download High-quality PNG, MP4 and GIF files for commercial projects without attribution

PixelTrue Animated Illustrations

Another animated free design resource from PixelTrue.

500+ Free Vector Illustrations & Animations

High-quality SVG illustrations & Lottie animations in 12 different styles. Supercharge your website, newsletters, blogs and e-books with high-quality illustrations. No attribution required.

Diagrams

A flowchart diagrams generator.

Diagram Software and Flowchart Maker

Bring your storage to our online tool, or go max privacy with the desktop app.

Free Design Resources Part II – Visual Content Creation Tools

The list of graphic design tools allows you to create awesome graphics for many platforms. Perfect for those who don’t know graphic design but need it regularly. Cover images for your blog posts, customizable ready-made graphics templates for your social media posts, etc.

There are a lot of free image editing tools out there. Some offer advanced editing features and others are more casual apps. But if you’re looking for a basic set of image editing tools that can help you get your job done, then here are some of our favorites.

Maybe you are creating not only visual content but also written content. Then you will love the tools that are mentioned in the awesome content creation tools.

Canva

Canva is the most popular and the most used graphic content creations site. It has both free and premium plans. If you need quick visual content Canva is one of the best design resources. Also, if you are a student, you can apply for the Github Student program. By doing this, you’ll have many free opportunities for paid apps. Canva is one of those apps. When you are accepted to the student program, you’ll get a 1-year premium Canva account. I also wrote how to do it in Turkish: Ücretsiz Canva Pro Hesabı.

Collaborate & Create Amazing Graphic Design for Free

Create beautiful designs with your team. Use Canva’s drag-and-drop feature and layouts to design, share and print business cards, logos, presentations and more.

Easil

Easil is another Canva alternative that has limited features for the free plan.

Drag & Drop Graphic Design tools and templates, for teams of all sizes

Easil is the drag-and-drop design tool that empowers your whole team to create visual content so good, it looks like a pro designed it.

Visme

Visme is an online tool that allows you to easily create infographics. Those are very useful for visual explanations and building backlinks.

Create Presentations, Infographics & Graphic Design | Visme

Visme is the #1 online design software for non-designers. Create presentations that match your brand, interactive infographics and beautiful graphic design.

Glorify

Glorify is a Canva-like tool that specifically creates graphics for different platforms such as Product Hunt, Shopify, Fiver, etc…

Create Free E-Commerce Images With Glorify App Design Editing Tool

Create beautiful designs & E-Commerce images with your team. Glorify App is the only design tool built for E-Commerce businesses drag-and-drop features and layouts to design ✓ Logo Maker ✓ BG Remover and more.

Polotno Studio

Polotno Studio allows you to edit your graphics.

Polotno Studio – Online Free Design Editor

Create graphical designs for social media, youtube previews, facebook covers

Projector

Projector is also another free graphic template design tool.

Projector — Create to captivate

Whether you’re building your brand solo or with a team, use Projector to craft well designed stories that will elevate your presence and captivate any audience.

Taler

Taler is a relatively new tool comparing with other free design resources. It is also powered by the e-commerce platform Shopify.

Taler – Free online banner maker

Create and download beautiful graphics and banners for social media, ads and more.

Crello

It is a very limited graphic design tool. Only 5 design downloads are permitted.

Crello — Free Graphic Design Software | Create Images Online Tool

The Simplest Online Image Editor ᐉ Crello ➤ Create your own designs ✓ Post ✓ Cover ✓ Animations ☝ Use the best online design software ⏩ It’s easy and free!

Artify

I personally like the illustration of Artify. Once in a while, It does not respond. However, It is now working. I should also mention that attribution is required.

A web based design editor packed with a library of design assets and thousands of ready to use templates

Access a massive library of exclusive design elements & stock media right in the editor: icons, fonts, abstract shapes, vectors, 3D elements, editorial compositions & more

Design AI

Design AI is another Canva alternative platform that has speech and video maker features.

Designs.ai – Creative work done effortlessly

Collection of A.I powered tools under one roof to help with your creative needs – Designs.ai

Previewed

Make awesome animated mockups. You can export your designs in 720p for free. (Attribution required)

Previewed – Free mockup generator for your app

Create beautiful mockups for your app, in just a few clicks.

Infogram

Infogram is another tool that allows you to create visual stories with data.

Create Infographics, Reports and Maps – Infogram

Infogram is an easy to use infographic and chart maker. Create and share beautiful infographics, online reports, and interactive maps. Make your own here.

Genially

Genially is a bit different tool other than the rest of the category. You can create interactive content and presentations with Genially.

Creatopy

Creatopy is another graphics design app that is very similar to Canva.

Online Graphic Design Platform – Start Free Trial on Creatopy

Bring your designs to life with our online graphic design platform. Use professionally designed templates and collaborate in creating the best graphics.

Free Design Resources Part III – Prototyping and Graphic Editing Tools

Figma

Figma is awesome. It is a sketch alternative. Moreover, It is boosted by Web-Assembly technology that makes it possible to do this stuff on your browser. It is great for teams and freelancers. It also allows you to graphically edit React components. In this way, Framer is a unique design tool.

Figma: the collaborative interface design tool.

Build better products as a team. Design, prototype, and gather feedback all in one place with Figma.

A Photoshop alternative: Photopea

Photopea is one of my favorite tools. It is a minified version of photoshop and it is working on a browser. Try this Photoshop alternative.

Photopea | Online Photo Editor

Photopea Online Photo Editor lets you edit photos, apply effects, filters, add text, crop or resize pictures. Do Online Photo Editing in your browser for free!

Penpot

Penpot is an open-source free prototyping and design tool that is currently at alpha stage.

Penpot | Design Freedom for Teams

The open-source solution for design and prototyping

Framer

Framer stands out with its mobile and interaction prototype development. It has web version as long as MacOS versions. React developers may know Framer Motion library which is the product of Framer.

The prototyping tool for teams | Framer

It’s interactive design made simple—no code required, browser-based, and free for everyone. Realistic prototypes in half the time.

Lunacy

Lunacy is a desktop software created by Icons8. Because of the creator company, it has built-in assets. Currently only available for Windows.

Free Graphic Design Software

Lunacy is a native Windows app that opens, edits, and stores .sketch files. And it’s completely free.

Spline

One of the best tools of 2020. Spline allows you to create 3D geometry. Moreover, It has Linux support.

Spline – Design tool for 3D web experiences

Create web-based 3D experiences

Free Design Resources IV – Design System Tools

Supernova

Supernova allows the whole team to collaborate using the tools they love to deliver products faster. Manage and share design systems coherently across design and code to a degree never seen before.

Home | Supernova.io

Design and code, together at last. Welcome the world’s first code-backed design system manager, Supernova.

Toolabs Design System

Toolabs is an intuitive tool that allows you to create your design system and export it with various formats such as CSS, JSON, etc. Also, It creates a web page for your design system that you can access and share easily.

Toolabs Design System Manager

Toolabs is a web based #tokens and #components driven Design, Prototype, Document and Development Platform

Frontify

Frontify actually is more than a design system tool. It is a complete brand design suite. It has a free plan for freelancers. You can create your design guideline and design system. Frontify also allows you to create a web page to access and share your guideline. Moreover, you can develop and design a user-interface component and share the code easily. A sample guideline page can be seen below:

The All-In-One Brand Management Software

Create brand consistency by centralizing digital assets, brand guidelines & UI patterns. Increase efficiency with web-based collaboration. Try it for free.

Diez

Tokens are great when the case designs. Diez is a tool that is specialized in creating design tokens.

Diez — The Design Token Framework

Diez radically reduces the cost of delivering a consistent visual identity across your company’s apps & websites.

ZeroHeight

You can create your design guidelines with Zeroheight and make it a single source of truth. Because it includes both design and code assets, communication with designers and developers becomes less problematic.

zeroheight · document your design systems, together

Create beautiful design system documentation collaboratively with zeroheight

Free Design Resources V – Miscellaneous

Pitch

A presentation tool that allows for collaborative works.

Pitch | Collaborative presentation software for modern teams

Pitch is uncompromisingly good presentation software, enabling modern teams to craft and distribute beautiful presentations more effectively. Sign up for free.

Dopely Colors

Dopey has many tools for colors.

Dopely Colors – A Free Solution to all your Color Problems

Free Solution to all your Color Problems

Runway ML

This tool is literally amazing. However, it has a steep learning curve because Runway has many features that use machine learning.

Sequel | Runway

The first professional video editor powered by machine learning and built on the web.

Design Lobby

It is a nice-looking asset manager. You can deploy your design assets such as typefaces, icons, images, and colors, currently in a beta phase.

Home

Keep your design assets with you all the time, Design Lobby helps you manage images, icons, fonts and colors. Built for high-performance design teams and freelancers

Squoosh

Squoosh is a one-page web app that is the easiest way to compress images. As we know, Google stated that fast opening is an important factor when ranking websites. Therefore, image compression is a must for websites that are aiming to rank higher. Considering the situation, Squoosh is an important free design resource.

Squoosh

Compress and compare images with different codecs, right in your browser

Scrollbar Designer

Design your page’s scrollbar. It should also be noted that it doesn’t work on Firefox. You can accomplish it via JavaScript.

I hope you like the free design resources and graphic design tools. This is a growing list. Therefore, it is better to come back later.