Graphic Design: FREE DESIGN RESOURCES

The nice guys at Think Design Blog have loads of nice design resources and freebies on their website. Check them out.

I have listed a few handy resources from their site here:

Type Tester

A great tool for comparing three screen fonts side by side. It’s great for picking between fonts for a project, etc.

Colour Lovers

GREAT resource for color and patterns. All types of stuff here. I’m sure alot of people have been here, but if you haven’t, go now!

Kuler

A site about color by Adobe. Very cool.

Colorzilla

Cool FireFox extension that allows you to get the color code for anything in your web browser. Has an eyedrop feature like photoshop.

Da Font

Good place for free fonts. Though it’s like every place with free fonts, you have to do some searching to find quality stuff.

Ink Scape

An open source vector graphics editor.

Design Resource Search Engine

A custom google search engine that searches design related sites. Great for finding freebies, textures, etc.

FontStruct

A really cool FREE online font builder.

BG Patterns

A tiling background generator. Very cool tool, and there are tons of options and stuff to choose from. Very customizable.

Superscreen Shots

Take full-size screenshot of any website. Just type in the address, and it’s brings you the screen shot pretty quick.

Icon Buffet

Cool resources for free icons.

Stock Vault

Free stock photography. The site says "11175 free stock photos online."

Texture King

Has a bunch of free textures. Really cool stuff.

SquidFingers Patterns

Some really cool patterns. Free to use and everything! There are 158 patterns and the styles vary.

 

Blue Vertigo has to be the biggest collection of design resource links available. Photoshop brushes, vector artwork, sounds, patterns - you name it - all here:

http://www.bluevertigo.com.ar/bluevertigo.htm