Resources Library - The Artisan Designer

Resources library

An online directory for the artisan designer.
Links to all the yummy stuff.

Stock Photos / Mockups / Graphic Assets / Fonts / Color / Brand Identity / Web Design

Stock Photos

Unsplash	unsplash.com	The largest internet source of free and high quality stock photo.
Pexels	pexels.com	Free stock photos you can use everywhere and for commercial use.
Kaboompics	kaboompics.com	A royalty-free service for stock images.
Gratisography	gratisography.com	The world's quirkiest collection of free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects.
Streetwill	streetwill.co	Free vintage photos to use any way you want.
New Old Stock	nos.twnsnd.co	Vintage photos from the public archives. Free of known copyright restrictions.
Stocksnap	stocksnap.io	High quality and high resolution stock images free from all copyright restrictions (CC0).
Life of Pix	lifeofpix.com	A community who shares free high-resolution photos with no Copyrights restrictions. For personal & commercial use.
Free Nature Stock	freenaturestock.com	Royalty-free nature stock photos and videos to use them however you want.
Moveast	moveast.me	A journey of a Portuguese guy moving that decided that every photo should be used for free.
Death to Stock	deathtothestockphoto.com	An Artist Owned Co-op that provides the freshest authentic stock photos and videos.
Jay Mantri	jaymantri.com	Free pics by Jay Mantri. "do anything (CC0). make magic."

Mockups

Mr.Mockup	mrmockup.com	Paid and free high quality mockups
GraphicBurger	graphicburger.com	Free mockups from around the web
Creative Market	creativemarket.com	Mockups category in Creative Market
Design Cuts	designcuts.com	Mockups category in Design Cuts
Placeit	placeit.net
MOYO Studio	moyo-studio.com	Digital design goods, photos and mockups for creatives

Graphic Assets

Creative Market	creativemarket.com	Online marketplace for community-generated design assets. Fonts, graphics, themes, photos, and templates.
Design Cuts	designcuts.com	Design resources including fonts, graphics, textures, patterns, templates and more.
LottieFiles Marketplace	lottiefiles.com/marketplace	Premium Lottie Animations for Web, iOS and Android.
Cool Backgrounds	coolbackgrounds.io	Beautiful, enticing image backgrounds to add to your blog post, website, or wallpaper, by Moe Amaya.
Open Doodles	opendoodles.com	A set of free and open source illustrations by Pablo Stanley.
Humaaans	humaaans.com	Another set of free illustrations by Pablo Stanley.

Fonts

Google Fonts	fonts.google.com	Google collection of free fonts (web and desktop).
Adobe Fonts	fonts.adobe.com	Desktop and web fonts from Adobe (paid subscription).
MyFonts	myfonts.com	Largest source for premium fonts.
Typewolf	typewolf.com	The best resource for everything related to typography on the web, by Jeremiah Shoaf.
Nicky Laatz	nickylaatz.com	Small font shop by Nicky Laatz with beautiful fonts and other goodies.

Color

Chroma.js	gka.github.io/palettes	Helps you create color scales.
0to255	0to255.com	A color tool that makes it easy to lighten and darken colors, by Shaun Chapman.
HTML Color Picker	w3schools.com	W3Schools HTML Color Picker
Color Hunt	colorhunt.co	Free and open platform for color inspiration with thousands of trendy hand-picked color palettes, by Gal Shir.
SchemeColor	schemecolor.com	Large source for color palettes and other color tools (color tester, color code converter, color palette from image)
Colormind	colormind.io	Color palettes generator.
Coolors.co	coolors.co	Color schemes generator.
Adobe Color	color.adobe.com	Create color palettes with the color wheel or image, browse thousands of color combinations from the Adobe Color community.
TinEye Color Extraction	labs.tineye.com/color	Tool to extract colors from an image.
HTML Color Codes	htmlcolorcodes.com	Easily find HTML color codes using the color picker, color chart and HTML color names with Hex color codes, RGB and HSL values.
Brand Palettes	brandpalettes.com	Search for brands' color codes, like Facebook's blue.
Color Claim	vanschneider.com/colors	A collection of unique color combinations by Tobias van Schneider.

Brand Identity

Sushi & Co. Style Guide	behance.net	A style guide example.
Medium Brand Development	behance.net	A style guide example.
Barre & Soul - Brand Guide	issuu.com	A style guide example.
Wolf Circus Brand Style Guide	issuu.com	A style guide example.
NJORD Organic Restaurant Style Guide	behance.net	A style guide example.
Argento Brand Identity	argentowine.com	A style guide example.
Using Word Association to Select Brand Colors	viget.com	An interesting article on choosing a brand's colors.

Web Design

CSS Gradient	cssgradient.io	A free tool that lets you create a gradient background for websites.
CSS-Tricks	css-tricks.com	Daily articles about CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and all things related to web design and development.
CSS3 Generator	css3generator.com	CSS3 generator for border radius, box shadow, text shadow, box sizing, transition, transform and more.
Codrops	tympanus.net/codrops	Web design and development blog that publishes articles and tutorials about the latest web trends, techniques and new possibilities.
Artisan Themes	artisanthemes.io	WordPress themes that help you turn your idea into a beautiful website, easily. Made with love by Mai & Javier (from The Artisan Designer).
WPBeginner	wpbeginner.com	The largest WordPress resource site for beginners with easy to understand tutorials.