Web designer
Grid
The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels.
Other CSS frameworks try to do everything - grid system, style reset, basic typography, form styles. But complex systems are, well, complex. Looking for a simple, lightweight approach that doesn't require a PhD? Meet The 1KB CSS Grid.
Built with typographic standards in mind, Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography. Baseline starts with several files to reset the browser's default behavior, build a basic typographic layout - including style for HTML forms and new HTML 5 elements - and build a simple grid system.
A Typographical and Grid Layout CSS Framework From Harry Roberts of CSS Wizardry.
If you're familiar with the grid, a bit of design and basic typography, using this script should be pretty easy - most of the functions are pretty self-explanatory.
With GRIDINATOR CSS you get an easy to use, customizable base to build layouts.
Typo
Em Calculator is a small JavaScript tool which helps making scalable and accessible CSS design. It converts size in pixels to relative em units, which are based on a text size.
The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen.
Font Tester is a free online font comparison tool. It allows you to easily preview and compare different fonts side by side with various CSS font styles applied to them.
csstypeset lets you preview your CSS text as you modify the attributes and creates the CSS on the fly.
Csstxt is a webtool that propose to illustrate the many ways you got to add a style to a text with a p or div tag.
TYPECHART lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS.
FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks.
Fontifier lets you use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer. It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a handwriting font that you can use in your word processor or graphics program, just like regular fonts such as Helvetica.
Ever wanted to find a font just like the one used by certain publications, corporations, or ad campaigns? Well now you can, using our WhatTheFont font recognition system.
The Identifont expert system enables you to identify a typeface from a sample by answering a series of questions about key characteristics.
This Font Identification Aid/Guide is a tool that allows you to use the physical characteristics of 12 key letters to help narrow down the possible choices of Serif text type faces, so that you might be able to easily identify them without requiring knowledge of traditional classification schemes .
Identify the font by answering questions about the shape of each character
Since starting in 1998 we have grown to have over 12,000 free fonts and about 1 million unique downloads every month. You can view the fonts in many ways: latest, by category, by designer, by recent popularity, popularity climbers and sliders, similarity, best and worst rated, and more!
New SearchFreeFonts.com collection contains over 13,000 free fonts and over 91,000 commercial fonts
Welcome to Font Cubes. Here you'll find the best free PC fonts and free Mac Fonts from the best font artists in the world.
Browse through the alphabetical font listings or the font categories to view the available free fonts. Each font has a full preview page with proprietary details. Most fonts are freeware and as such free to use for webmasters and hobbyists.
Welcome to 1001 Free Fonts - Download Free Fonts for Windows and Macintosh
Welcome to FontFreak.com, one of the largest and most visited freeware and shareware font sites on the net.
Color
Discover Adobe® Kuler™ - the web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you're creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.
With the colorful toolbox at ColorExplorer you can easily create, manage, and explore color palettes for use in web designs, desktop publishing, or any other graphic design process.
ColorSchemeDesigner is an online editor for color schemes. New in Version 3.0: A brand new interface, as well as the engine, all rewritten from the scratch. Rapidly increased precision and color space conversions, better preview, enhanced scheme creation system, unique scheme IDs and permanent URL of the scheme.
Colors come to life in 3D! Browse color palettes, or create your own. Adjust, mix, and blend to your heart's content.
Used alone or in conjunction with our other creation tools, Toucan gives you the features you need to inject color into your creative process.
The Colour Contrast Check Tool allows to specify a foreground and a background colour and determine if they provide enough of a contrast 'when viewed by someone having color deficits or when viewed on a black and white screen'
Juicy Studio: CSS Colour Contrast Test
This service has been provided to allow you to check the validity of your CSS against the W3C's validation service, along with a colour contrast test, and a test to ensure that relevant sizes are specified in relative units of measurement.
Textures
Textures! Textures! Textures! You guessed it man, Lost and Taken is all about textures....glorious and wonderful textures.
Textur.es is a community ran texture gallery for designers, photographers, and creatives alike.
Brushes
iDesign Brushes is your number one source for all of your brush needs. We hand pick only the best Brushes from our submissions to ensure quality. We update daily so be sure to check back often.
Welcome to Photoshop Free Brushes - a collection of high quality free Photoshop brushes.
123Freebrushes.com is a growing free stock brush site. Right now over 1200 freebrushes sorted by categories are assembled together for download.
Vectors
iDesign Vectors is your number one source for all of your vector needs. We hand pick only the best vectors from our submissions to ensure quality. We update daily so be sure to check back often.
Vectorportal is huge database of free vectors which users can freely use for their commercial and personal projects. During 4 years of existence we have been repeatedly voted as Top 10 free vector resource by various graphic design sites.
123FreeVectors.com is a growing free stock vector site. Right now over 950 free vectors sorted by categories are assembled together for downloads.
vector4free.com is a web site dedicated to free vector graphics: Adobe Illustrator AI, EPS, PDF, SVG, Corel Draw CDR files free to download - that's what you can find here.
I Heart Vector: Vector stock resource for graphic designers who love all things vector
High Quality Royalty Free Vector Graphics and Design Art Showcase Center.
Hi everyone! I'm Ann and VL is my personal blog. Here I'm going to share various free vectors (eps, ai): floral designs, fairy motives, silhouettes, icons, heraldic illustrations, grunge pictures.
Welcome to Vector Valley. The main objective is collecting quality vectors in one place and available for free download. We are showcasing as much as possible of quality vector artwork here.
Welcome to FreeVectors.net, an online gallery of free to use vector graphics. All the images on this site are free to use for personal use and most of them can be used commercialy.
Patterns
iDesign Patterns is your number one source for all of your Pattern needs. We hand pick only the best Patterns from our submissions to ensure quality. We update daily so be sure to check back often.
As the name implies, this section of K10k is a resource for deliciously pixellated patterns.
Stock Images
Whether you just want to browse our huge image gallery or want to share your own photos with others, this is the site for you!
Welcome to the free section of Dreamstime! If you are a designer, here you can search for and download high resolution stock images for free, while also having the option to purchase RF licensed images.
