Resources & Tools for Graphic Designers

Resources and tools for graphic designers, all in one place. Vector and editing software, desktop publishing tools, and mockup generators. Typography, color palettes, and visual asset libraries. Plus blogs, podcasts, inspiration galleries, and books to sharpen your craft.

Software & Tools

Fonts & Typography

Blogs & Publications

Inspiration for Graphic Designers

Curated graphic design inspiration from galleries, archives, and community platforms featuring poster art, book covers, brand identity, and visual design work.

Searchsystem

An ever-growing collection of references and tools for graphic designers.

AIGA Eye on Design

Well trained eye on the best new work from the world's most exciting graphic designers.

Behance

Adobes Design Community sharing design projects.

The Brand Identity

Platform to inspire and inform creativity through graphic design.

Design Everywhere

An ever-growing library of carefully curated graphic design works.

Identity Designed

Visual branding from around the world.

Gallereee

Curated collection of the best portfolio websites for creative inspiration.

typo/graphic posters

An inspiration platform on behalf of design through the poster medium.

Archives.design

A digital archive of graphic design related items.

Just a Design List

Curated directory of design studios and independent practices.

Logofolio

Logo inspiration gallery organized by style, industry, and color.

TYPE01

News and inspiration across type design, branding, graphics, digital, motion, 3D and more.

BX Museum

A curation of rare media from iconic brands in different domains.

Book Cover Archive

An archive of excellent book cover designs.

Inspiration Grid

Daily design inspiration for creatives.

Peoples Graphic Design Archive

A crowd-sourced archive aiming to expand, diversify, and preserve graphic design history.

Ads of the World

Ad inspiration platform showcasing creative campaigns worldwide.

posts.design

Curated reference wall for social post design.

abdz.do

Collective of individual writers sharing articles about graphic design, branding, and UI.

World Brand Design Society

A professional community that benchmarks and awards creatives in the fields of corporate.

Looks Like Good Design

The best design from all around the world.

Trending Design

The best design inspiration on X.

Reference Board

Native moodboard app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac with visual search and auto-tagging.

SOOT Spiral

Visual search engine that turns a prompt into a layered moodboard of real images.

Muse

Visual bookmark manager for links, images and videos on Mac.

Brand Archive

Discover logos, art direction and fonts from hundreds of brands past and present.

Visual Journal

Curated blog featuring the best branding, editorial, and graphic design projects.

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Software & Tools for Graphic Designers

Essential graphic design software from vector editors and image tools to AI-powered design applications that speed up your creative workflow.

Design Tools

Adobe Photoshop

The ultimate image editing and design app.

Adobe Illustrator

The state of the art of illustration.

Adobe InDesign

The next page in layout design.

Figma

Industry-standard design platform for design, prototyping, and team collaboration.

Canva

Design anything in minutes with thousands of beautiful templates and images.

Sketch

All the tools you need for a truly collaborative design process.

Affinity

Professional creative software, free for everyone.

Procreate

Sketch. Paint. Create. On iPad.

Gimp

A free image editor for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Inkscape

A Free and open source vector graphics editor.

Visme

Create high-converting, engaging, branded content.

VistaCreate

A free graphic design tool with thousands of free templates.

More Design Tools

Generative AI Design Tools

Midjourney

AI-powered platform for creating stunning digital art.

Adobe Firefly

A suite of generative AI models and tools by Adobe.

Kittl

AI design platform for graphics, vectors, and typography.

Modyfi

AI design platform built for multidisciplinary designers.

Ideogram

Turn your ideas into creative graphic designs, in a matter of seconds.

Recraft

Generate stunning vector art, illustrations and 3D images.

Reve

Reimagine reality.

OpenArt

Turns imagination into visual stories—from idea to final frame.

Exactly

Bespoke AI models, built for your brand.

Krea

An easy way to generate images, video and sound with AI.

Magnific

All-in-one AI creative suite.

Leonardo

A unique suite of tools to leverage generative AI.

Visual Assets for Graphic Designers

High-quality visual assets for graphic designers, from stock photography and print mockups to icon collections and ready-to-use illustrations.

Stock Images & Photos

Unsplash

Over 2 million free high-resolution images by the world’s most generous community of photographers.

Openverse

An extensive library of free stock photos, images, and audio.

Lummi

Free stock photos powered by humans and AI everywhere.

Stills

A photo licensing platform for exceptional designers.

Pixabay

Over 1 million+ free stock photos and videos shared by a talented community.

Magnific Stock

Free and premium stock content made for creators.

Adobe Stock

Unlock your creativity with stock images, stock videos, stock photos, and more.

Impossible Images

A library of 1000s of AI generated images.

The Last Museum

Search engine for exploring millions of museum artworks.

Shutterstock

High quality stock images, photos, vectors, video and music.

Pexels

Big collection of free stock photos and videos.

Getty Images

A stock media platform for creators.

DepositPhotos

Royalty-free stock photos, vector images, videos and music.

Alamy

A diverse stock collection to find the right asset for your next project.

Kaboompics

Free stock images and curated photoshoots.

More Stock Photo Libraries

Product & Print Mockups

Placeit

The largest collection of mockups on the internet.

Wannathis Mockups

High quality mockups for digital designers.

Mockuuups

Mockups that wooow, without the work.

Supply Family

Curated marketplace for premium mockups, fonts, and graphics from selected creators.

Creative Market Print Templates

Create high-quality brochures, posters, invitations, and more.

Creative Market

High-quality stock, graphics, fonts, and design templates.

Art Directed

Higher quality, elevated mockups for the new age of design presentations.

LiveSurface

Get real in real time, drag and drop photo-real mockups. (Use Code: TOOOLS10 for 10% off the yearly plan)

Envato

Unlimited stock, fonts, videos, music, templates and more.

Mr.Mockup

Unique and professional PSD mockups.

The Brand Identity Store

Curated marketplace by The Brand Identity for premium mockups, decks, motion templates, and graphics.

Pixelbuddha

Marketplace of free and premium design assets including mockups, fonts, effects, and textures.

Flyerwrk Mockups

High quality mockups and handcrafted photoshop templates.

SédShop

Handcrafted mockups for fellow creatives.

Modor

Free AI mockup generator with 10000+ design templates.

GraphicBurger

A buffet of premium quality design resources offered for free to the community.

Canvy

Online tool for fine art painters and poster designers.

Millefeuille Mockup

Sunny mockups to help designers sell their ideas.

Dynamic Mockups

Create mockups for print-on-demand fast.

Mockup Cloud

Free and premium PSD mockups for branding, stationery, packaging, and devices.

Studio Innate Scene Editor

A browser-based editor for creating apparel and product mockups.

Mocku

Create stunning logos, brand identities, mockups, and social media designs with AI.

Icon Libraries & Collections

Streamline

The world's largest and most consistent UI design icon sets.

Icons8

Large icon packs of over 10k icons, so you can find visually consistent icons for all your designs.

Noun Project

A diverse and extensive icon collection.

Iconscout Icons

Discover consistent icon packs for every industry.

UICONS

Beautiful icons for the era of high-resolution UI.

Flaticon

Over 2,031,000 vector icons grouped in 43,189 packs.

Nucleo

30k icons for UIs, presentations, and print projects.

Iconshock

Over 2 million icons in 400+ icon sets with over 30 styles.

SVG Repo

Browse 300.000+ SVG vectors and icons free for commercial use.

Magnific Icons

Find icons that go together. Fast.

Experience Japan Pictograms

A novel set of visual symbols developed to enhance peoples tourism experience in Japan.

Doodle Icons

400+ handcrafted icons free for your next project.

Iconbuddy

Download, customize, and edit over 100k+ open source icons.

theSVG

Open source library of thousands of brand SVG icons for designers and developers.

High Quality Illustration Libraries

Adobe Stock Illustrations

Discover royalty-free stock illustrations.

Creative Market Illustrations

High-quality stock illustrations, graphics and design assets.

Envato Illustrations

Vector illustrations and digital drawings.

Blush

Create, mix, and customize illustrations made by artists around the world.

Streamline Illustrations

Thousands of vector illustrations.

Iconscout Illustrations

692K+ SVG illustrations and vector packs.

UI8 - Illustrations

High quality vector illustration resources curated by UI8.

Getillustrations

Stock illustration packs for websites, application and web design.

Good Stuff No Nonsense

A lovely place for hand drawn vector icons & high quality elements.

More Illustrations

Fonts & Typography Resources for Graphic Designers

Typography tools and resources for graphic designers, from font inspiration and free typefaces to professional foundries and font management software.

Font Inspiration & Typography in Use:

Typewolf

Independent type resources, type trends and the best type combinations.

type.lol

Discover type from hundreds of independent foundries.

Inspotype

Combine fonts, colors and artwork on real-world industry mockups.

Fonts In Use

An independent archive of typography in use.

Letterform Archive

Browse digitized objects of lettering, typography, and graphic design.

Font Brief

A revolutionary font discovery tool for branding & editorial.

Typographica

A review of typefaces and type books, with occasional commentary on fonts and typographic design.

Featured Type

A curated gallery of typefaces.

Font Meme

Discover fonts used in logos, movies, books etc, and download them.

More Font Inspiration

Free Fonts & Font Libraries

Font Squirrel

Font Squirrel scours the internet for high quality, legitimately free fonts.

DaFont

Huge collection of free fonts nicely categorized and always up to date.

Lost Type Co-op

A collaborative digital type foundry.

Uncut

Open source typeface catalogue, focusing on contemporary type.

Free Faces

A curated collection of typefaces that are available under free licences.

Velvetyne

Libre fonts for everyone.

Open Foundry

Curated open-source fonts for free.

Fontesk

Font Library with tons of free fonts as well as high quality paid fonts.

Behance Free Fonts

Free font projects on behance.

More Free Fonts

Pro Fonts & Foundries

MyFonts

MyFonts offers the largest selection of professional fonts for any project.

YouWorkForThem

Unique niche and designer oriented font library providing currently over 97,000 fonts.

Commercial Type

Highly influential type foundry creating contemporary classics for editorial, branding, and digital design.

Hoefler&Co.

Long-lived typefaces marked by high performance and high style.

Klim Type Foundry

Renowned type foundry producing rigorously crafted typefaces.

Swiss Typefaces

Swiss type design company known for their innovative views, creative approach and high quality.

205TF

A french type foundry bringing together the work of independent typeface designers.

Extraset

An independent Swiss type foundry that publishes professional typefaces.

Ohno

Oakland based type foundry born from a love of expressive typography and craft.

Pangram Pangram

Quality typefaces. All fonts are free to try or for personal projects.

Good Type Foundry

An award winning type foundry, offering retail and custom typefaces for both digital and printed use.

Displaay

Independent type foundry creating expressive, modern typefaces popular in branding and digital-first design.

More Pro Fonts & Foundries

Font Managers, Finders & Identification Tools

RightFont

A powerful, native and intuitive font manager for macOS.

Typographer

Find, sync, and try fonts with ease.

FontBase

A font manager made by designers, for designers. Lightning fast, with beautiful interface, and totally free.

MainType

A powerful but easy to use font manager and font viewer for Windows.

What Font Is

Find any font from any image.

What the Font

The Shazam for fonts — a designer's dream.

Fonts Ninja

Free browser extension that let you inspect, try, buy and bookmark any fonts on any website like a ninja.

FontAlternatives

Find free alternatives to premium fonts.

FontGoggles

An interactive font viewer and comparer for various font formats.

More Font Managers & Tools

Color Tools & Resources for Graphic Designers

Explore color inspiration libraries, palette generators, and color pickers to build harmonious color schemes for your graphic design work.

Color Inspiration

Color Hunt

Free and open platform for color inspiration with thousands of trendy hand-picked color palettes.

ColorDrop

Color palette inspiration for creatives.

Picular

Works like google but the results are colors.

Design Seeds

For all who love colors.

Happy Hues

Curated colors in context.

Palettemaker

Create and test drive color palettes on real design examples.

Huemint

Use machine learning to create unique color schemes for your brand, website or graphic.

CoolHue 2.0

Cool color gradients to copy and paste. Also available as a sketch plugin.

Gradient Hunt

A free and open platform for color inspiration.

More Color Inspiration

Color Palette Tools

Adobe Color

Create color themes, explore color inspiration and find color trends.

Coolors

Create the perfect palette or get inspired by thousands of beautiful color schemes.

Pantone Connect

Design with 15,000 Pantone® colors. Convert to Pantone codes. Create and save custom palettes.

Khroma

Discover, search, and save color combos and palettes powered by AI.

Paletton

A color scheme designer.

Colormind

AI powered color combinations based on your preferences.

ColorSpace

Generate nice color palettes.

Palette Hunt

A quintessential ally for designers and color enthusiasts alike.

Poline

An enigmatic color palette generator, that harnesses the mystical witchcraft of polar coordinates.

More Color Palette Tools

Color Picker & Color Converter

ColorSlurp

The ultimate color picker for Mac users.

System Color Picker

The familiar color picker supercharged.

Sip

A professional color picker which allows you to collect, organize, edit and share colors on mac.

ColorZilla

A browser extension assisting web devs and graphic designers with color related tasks.

Just Color Picker

Free offline color picker and color editor for Windows.

Litur

A color picker for the real world.

ColorHexa

A free color converter.

Colorizer

Color converter and generator with high precision and contrast test.

rgb.to

Convert colors between HEX, RGB, CMYK, Pantone, RAL, HSL, HSB, and more.

More Color Pickers & Converters

Blogs & Publications for Graphic Designers

Stay informed with graphic design blogs and magazines featuring articles on branding, typography, illustration, and the creative industry.

It’s Nice That

Inspiring the global creative community.

Creative Boom

Art and design magazine for the creative industries.

BP&O Articles

Publication on brand identity design and packaging.

Communication Arts

Exceptional Design, Advertising, Illustration, Photography, Interactive and Typography, since 1959.

Creative Review

The sharpest opinion, analysis and advice on life in the commercial creative industries.

Design Week

Discover the latest across branding, digital, product, and interiors.

The Design Blog

A carefully curated platform for design and creative inspiration.

AIGA Eye on Design

The best new work by the world’s most exciting designers.

Typeroom

An online platform for the typophile generation.

Creative Bloq

Where creativity meets technology.

Made by Folk

Conversations with the people behind the design.

Adobe Blog

Latest news from the Adobe universe.

More Design Blogs

Podcasts for Graphic Designers

Listen and learn from graphic design podcasts covering creative inspiration, freelance business tips, and interviews with successful designers.

Design Matters

20 years running podcast on how incredibly creative people design the arc of their lives.

The Angry Designer

No-Bull Graphic Design Podcast that cuts through industry jargon & nonsense, to help frustrated Graphic Designers survive and thrive.

Adventures in Design

A daily talk show and community for creatives.

Ramblings of a Designer

A weekly podcast where we discuss the latest graphic design news from around the web.

The Futur

A show that explores the interesting overlap between design, marketing, and business.

The Deeply Graphic Designcast

Bold ideas, behind-the-scenes insights, and real-world advice to inspire designers, artists, and makers.

Design Your Life

Listen in as creatives and visionaries discuss the role design has played in shaping their success.

Creative Boom

Candid conversations with fellow creatives, packed with fresh insights and expert advice.

Logo Geek

Learn from the experiences of successful graphic designers and entrepreneurs around the world.

The Profitable Graphic Designer

A podcast to help graphic designers grow, get more clients, and hit $10k (and beyond) months.

Front and Center

Weekly discussion on branding, design, pop culture, and more.

Scratching the Surface

A podcast about design, theory, and creative practice.

The Creative Condition

An ongoing exploration of human creativity to help you understand and maximise yours.

More Design Podcasts

Books for Graphic Designers

Must-read books for graphic designers covering typography fundamentals, brand identity, color principles, and the history of visual communication.

Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students

Ellen Lupton

Logos that Last: How to Create Iconic Visual Branding

Allan Peters

Illustration Now!

Julius Wiedemann

The Complete Color Harmony, Pantone Edition: Expert Color Information for Professional Results

Leatrice Eiseman

Grid systems in graphic design: A visual communication manual

Josef Müller-Brockmann

Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities

David Airey

Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism

John Gage

Interaction of Color

Josef Albers

Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology

Drew Eric Whitman

The Elements of Typographic Style

Robert Bringhurst

Meggs' History of Graphic Design

Philip B. Meggs, Alston W. Purvis

The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters

Steven Heller, Gail Anderson

How to Use Graphic Design to Sell Things, Explain Things, Make Things Look Better, ...

Michael Bierut

The Art of Whimsical Lettering

Joanne Sharpe

The Visual History of Type: A visual survey of 320 typefaces

Paul McNeil

Logo Modernism

Jens Müller, Julius Wiedemann, R. Roger Remington

100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design

Steven Heller, Veronique Vienne

Palette Perfect for Graphic Designers and Illustrators: Colour Combinations, Meanings and Cultural References

Sara Caldas

More Design Books

How These Graphic Design Resources Are Curated

This collection is shaped by ongoing research. The focus is on resources that support real creative workflows, from logo design and layout work to asset creation and final production. The list is updated regularly to feature new tools, note significant updates, and keep pace with how graphic design practice continues to change.

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