Tools for creatives

iconbox

Featured

Search across 15,000+ icons from 8 open-source libraries (Lucide, Tabler, Phosphor, Heroicons, Solar, Remix, Streamline, Pixelart) in one plugin, with live stroke and size controls.

Orion Icon Library

Thousands of SVG icons in a web app that lets you restyle and organise them before download.

Zoom

Meetings, webinars, chat and phone in one platform — the default video call, whatever you think of it.

Tint & Shade Generator

Tints and shades that match what Chrome DevTools, Sass, Less and PostCSS would produce.

Evil Buttons

shadcn/ui registry of animated buttons with live previews and one-command installs.

pxhere

Over a million CC0 photos — commercial use, no attribution, no account.

Shotbase

macOS screen-capture workspace that keeps shooting, editing, organising and sharing in one window.

Design Threads

Collaborative report on the state of design today, written by the field rather than about it.

OmniGraffle

Long-running Mac app for diagrams and technical drawings that need to look deliberate.

Logo Design Love

Two decades of writing on logos, symbols and marks, with the book in thirteen languages.

Tight Studio

Free Mac app that turns raw screen recordings into polished product demos, no watermark.

Runable

General AI agent that plans and executes business tasks end to end rather than one step at a time.

Nutshell

CRM with email marketing and contact management, scoped for small sales teams.

Mediamodifier

Online mockup generator with fifteen thousand templates for product and brand visuals.

Lottie

The library behind Lottie files — After Effects animations as JSON, rendered natively on web and mobile.

Iconset

Desktop manager for icon sets — collect, tag and customise packs in one place on Mac and Windows.

Droplr

Screen capture and screencasts with instant shareable links, on Mac and Windows.

HTML Color Codes

Colour pickers, wheel and charts that hand back hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH for the same swatch.

Design by Women

Showcase of women and under-represented creatives working in design, built to be browsed for hiring.

Cliply

Royalty-free animated GIFs, icons and clipart, free for commercial use.

Axe

Accessibility testing engine and toolchain that runs the same rules in the browser and in CI.

Web Animation Course

Free practical guide to web animation, with templates and videos alongside each lesson.

Eggradients

Ready-made gradient backgrounds with hex and CSS for each, served as eggs.

Culrs

Five hundred hand-curated palettes, sorted so you can pick a mood instead of a hex.

ColorsWall

Palette library you can also write to — store your own schemes next to the browsable ones.

Web Font Preview

Google Fonts previewed inside real page templates instead of a type specimen.

123RF

Stock library of photos, vectors and video with a hundred thousand new assets a day.

Board

Shared whiteboard for teams working apart, built to feel closer to sketching than to software.

3dicons

1440 open-source 3D icons, free for commercial work without attribution.

YesInsights

One-click email and on-site surveys — NPS and single questions, nothing heavier.

FontGet

Free font downloads with a generator for previewing a face before you commit to it.

JPEGmini

Image compressor that cuts file size without a visible quality drop.

A11ygator

Drops a URL against WCAG rules and reports what fails, as a web tool or Chrome extension.

Alcove

Turns the MacBook notch into a Dynamic Island with controls and widgets.

Workzone

Project management aimed at teams that found the big tools heavier than the work.

Women in Type

Research project recovering women's role in designing the twentieth century's best-known typefaces.

Wallspace

Native 4K live wallpapers for Mac with lock-screen support and under two per cent CPU.

User Interviews

Recruits research participants from a panel of 125,000 by profession, demographics and geography.

UI Design Tips

A hundred practical UI tips with real examples — spacing, colour, type, buttons — from Jim Raptis.

Tumult Hype

macOS app for HTML5 animation and interactive content without writing code.

Tabler Icons

Over 5000 free SVG icons on a strict 24px grid, editable stroke.

Shots

Drops a screenshot into a device or a gradient backdrop in a couple of clicks.

Shopify Polaris

Shopify's admin design system — worth reading for how it documents intent, not just components.

Rotato

3D device mockups you can animate and export as video, not just as a flat PNG.

Humaaans

Mix-and-match people illustrations — swap poses, clothing and skin tone.

Fontshare

Free quality typefaces from the Indian Type Foundry — licensed for commercial work.

Design Systems Repo

Index of public design systems, styleguides and pattern libraries in one place.

Carbon Design System

IBM's open design system, unusually thorough on data-heavy and accessible patterns.

Coolors

The palette generator most designers reach for first — browse, lock, export.

Spline

3D scenes built in the browser and embedded straight into a site.

Typewolf

Which fonts real sites use, updated daily — the reference for what is actually in the wild.

unDraw

Open illustrations that take your brand colour before you download them.

Typescale

Builds a modular type scale and hands back the CSS.

Sip

Mac colour picker that keeps a history and copies in whatever format your codebase uses.

Rive

Interactive animations with a state machine, running from one small runtime file.

Setproduct

Large Figma UI kits for dashboards and admin panels, sold as finished systems.

Refactoring UI

Concrete rules for making a competent interface look designed.

Phosphor

Icon family in six weights, from hairline to duotone, so one set covers an entire interface.

OKLCH Color Picker

Picker built on the OKLCH space, where equal steps in lightness actually look equal.

Motion

Animation library for the web — the successor to Framer Motion, usable without React.

Magnific

Upscaler that invents plausible detail rather than just enlarging pixels.

Lucide

Open-source icon set that grew out of Feather — consistent stroke, 1500+ glyphs, packages for every framework.

Laws of UX

The psychology principles behind interface decisions, one page each.

Fontpair

Google font pairings shown in use rather than as two names side by side.

Eraser

Diagrams for engineering docs, generated from text as well as drawn.

Descript

Edits video by editing its transcript — the fastest route through talking-head footage.

CleanShot X

Screenshot and recording tool that replaces the Mac defaults outright.

Blush

Illustration collections by named artists that you recolour and recombine before exporting.

Iconify

Search 200,000 icons across 150+ open sets and pull any of them through one API.

Anima

Turns Figma frames into React or HTML you can keep working in.

Wakamai Fondue

Drop in a font file and it reports every feature, axis and glyph the font actually carries.

Tella

Browser recorder for demos and async updates, with backgrounds and layouts built in.

Sonner

Toast component for React whose motion and stacking became the thing everyone imitates.

Runway

Video generation and editing tools aimed at people who actually cut film.

Retool

Internal tools assembled from components over your own database.

Relume

Component and page library for Webflow, assembled into full sections rather than parts.

Recraft

Generates vector art and mockups, and holds a consistent style across a set.

PostHog

Product analytics, session replay and flags in one open-source stack.

Nappy

Free photos of Black and Brown people — fills the gap the big libraries still have.

v0

Generates React and Tailwind interfaces from a prompt, then lets you keep editing the code.

Microsoft Clarity

Free heatmaps and session recordings with no traffic ceiling.

Lummi

Free stock that is openly AI-generated, sorted by style instead of by keyword.

Jitter

Motion design in the browser for people who think in Figma, not in After Effects.

Ideogram

The image model that renders legible text — useful for posters and packaging.

Fillout

Forms with conditional logic and database-like storage, generous on the free tier.

Fathom Analytics

Privacy-first analytics with no cookie banner and a single readable dashboard.

Excalidraw

Hand-drawn-style whiteboard that opens instantly and needs no account.

Cargo

Site builder aimed at artists and studios, with templates that do not look like templates.

Screen Studio

Mac recorder that adds the automatic zoom and smooth cursor that make product demos watchable.

Webstudio

Open-source visual builder that outputs clean code instead of a proprietary runtime.

Tabbied

Generates repeatable geometric patterns for print, wall art and web backgrounds.

Diffusion Studio

Video editor on an infinite canvas that a coding agent can drive — edit by hand or hand the timeline to Claude Code.

Generative Loaders

React loading animations made specifically for the waiting states of generative UI.

Nord Design System

Nordhealth's open design system — tokens, components and guidelines worth reading if you're building your own.

Raylight

Turns screenshots and footage into cinematic product videos without opening a motion tool.

Variable Fonts

Directory for finding variable fonts and playing with their axes before committing.