Design assets

Customisable illustration sets you can recolor and remix to fit a brand. A step up from generic flat illustrations when you want some personality.

Hand-curated free HD/4K footage aimed at aesthetically consistent website backgrounds. Smaller but tasteful — good for hero loops.

Generate consistent, fun avatars from any string — perfect placeholder profile pictures with no uploads. An HTTP API means you can use it anywhere.

Hand-drawn vector illustrations with a warmer, less generic look. Reach for it when the flat-illustration aesthetic feels too corporate.

Free, professional-grade typefaces in full families. Quality that rivals paid foundries — my first stop when Google Fonts feels overused.

Self-host open-license fonts as npm packages instead of hitting Google's CDN. Better privacy and performance, straight into your build — this site runs on it.

The zero-friction way to get typography that is not the system default. Pick one characterful display face and one clean workhorse — Instrument Serif, Inter and Geist are safe, current bets.

Generate editable SVG waves, blobs, gradients and stacked shapes for backgrounds. Drop the SVG straight into a site for an on-brand hero in minutes.

Free, repeatable SVG background patterns with adjustable color and opacity, from the Tailwind crowd. Copy-paste texture for an otherwise flat section.

Clean MIT-licensed icons from the Tailwind team, in outline, solid and mini. Focused and tasteful; pairs naturally with Tailwind, though you'll outgrow the set on bigger apps.

One API over 200,000+ icons from 150+ sets — search across Heroicons, Tabler, Phosphor and more at once. The meta-library when no single set has it.

Thousands of crisp, consistent icons, totally free with no upsell. A lovely, slightly more distinctive alternative to the usual sets.

A marketplace for icons, illustrations, 3D assets and Lotties with a big free tier. Strong specifically for 3D illustrations and Lottie animations.

Placeholder photos by URL — drop in a size and get a real image, no asset hunt. The fastest way to make a layout look populated while you build.

The icon set I reach for by default — over a thousand consistent, tweakable icons with first-class React, Vue and Svelte packages. Open-source and ubiquitous, so AI tools already know it.

Free stock video, music and sound effects from Envato, no attribution. Strong for short background video loops.

Thousands of device, print and lifestyle scenes for inserting screenshots, with Figma plugins. Big library; the free tier is limited.

Free stock photos and video, no attribution, commercial-friendly (owned by Canva). Low-friction for mockups and hero imagery.

Thousands of icons across six weights, so you can match stroke to your type. Flexible and tasteful — my pick when Lucide's single weight isn't enough.

Royalty-free images, video, vectors and even music under one permissive license. Broad coverage; quality is more variable than curated libraries.

An AI image tool that, unusually, outputs editable vector and SVG — icons and illustrations, not just raster. Stands out for design-system-ready assets.

A tidy, neutral icon set with matched line and solid variants. A dependable, free choice when Lucide isn't quite the vibe.

Drop a screenshot into a device or 3D mockup, even animated, right in the browser. Handy for social posts and landing-page hero shots.

Brand and logo icons (the ones you're not allowed to redraw) in clean SVG, free. The place to grab that GitHub or Stripe glyph for a footer.

Customisable, animatable illustrations in several distinct styles. Rare for a free library, you can edit and export them as animations.

A search engine for hundreds of thousands of free SVGs with per-asset licenses. The fallback when the icon you need isn't in any single named set.

Thousands of consistent outline icons, fully free with no premium tier. A great free alternative when you want breadth on a 24px grid.

Open-source illustrations you recolor to your brand before downloading. Consistent flat style and zero attribution — the dependable default for spot illustrations.

The default source for placeholder and hero photography that doesn't look like stock. Everyone uses it, so the popular shots are recognisable — dig past page one to stand out.