Digital Assets Index

🦜 ¡Welcome!

This is a list with stuff I've come across somehow and some contributions people sent – thank you so much by the way! 🎉

It's basically impossible to cover every single thing that is out there. To keep a managable list, I've simplified the selection process to: things I find interesting and useful for me or like-minded folks.

There are no special affiliations or economic interests with anyone or anything. I personally know some of the creators featured here – and they're awesome! As I stated, if something is here is because I believe is valuable.

Want to submit a suggestion? Are you doing something cool? Please, let me know 🤗

🏷️ Tags

- Something with the tag is a recent addition to this list

With the exception of 🗃️ Creators and Marketplaces , you will find $ and L$ tags in some categories.

- [no tag] = 95% chances is pretty much free.

-$ = paid stuff. It might have some sort of trial though.

-L$ = paid with some free features, tipically a limited feature set of the paid tiers.

🗃️ Creators and Marketplaces

🅰️ Type Resources

⌨️ General

• 📃 Awesome Fonts – Another curated list of font resources. In fact, this list is heavily inspired by it.
• Fonts In Use – Type at work in the real world. Really useful to find new fonts and inspiration.
• Typewolf – Similar to the previous one ↑ with trends, guides, useful blog posts and resources.
• TypeNetwork – Guide to OpenType Variable fonts. Really useful for typography makers.
• Lorem Ipsum Generator
• Fluid Type Scale – CSS fluid type scale generator. Web design stuff. Don't know what fluid types are? Here's a good intro and here a more advanced read. TLDR: beautiful technology.
• Tools for font designers by TYPEHEIST – Curated list of hidden gems when working with fonts.
• Calligrapher.ai – Realistic computer-generated handwriting

📦 Collections

• Fontshare – Free fonts by the Indian Type Foundry (ITF) and other designers
• Google Fonts – Plenty of fonts
• Bunny Fonts – Privacy respecting alternative to Google Fonts
• The League of Moveable Type – The first open-source type movement
• Oldschool PC Font Pack – Collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles

🅱️ Fonts

• Refer to the section 🗃️ Creators and Marketplaces with the tag 🅰️ Fonts for more resources.
• Departure Mono
• IBM Plex
• Public Sans
• Inter - martyr⁠— favorite type ✨
• Work Sans
• Redacted – Keep your wireframes free of distracting Lorem Ipsum
• Manrope
• MonoLisa$ – A monospaced font designed for developers.

🪴 Icons

• 📃 Awesome Web Icons – A curated list of awesome Web (font, svg, whatever) icons. Just go there, it's full of pages and resources!
• Iconoir
• Mono Icons
• Tabler Icons
• Feather
• BrandEPS – Brand icons
• IcoFont – Tons of icons. Includes brands, popular websites, services and social networks.
• SVG Spinners – Animated loading SVGs
• Streamline IconsL$

⚡ Inspiration

Some of those sites cover more topics than what I’m placing them in. Go ahead and explore them all.

⛈️ General

• Pinterest
• Behance
• Dribbble
• Designspiration

🎥 Motion

• Eyecandy – Visual technique library for motion graphics, cinema and animation

🎲 Illustration and 3D

• Artstation
• Deviantart
• /r/blender

🌐 Website Design

• Brutalist Websites
• Awwwards
• Siteinspire
• HOVERSTAT.ES
• One Page Love
• httpster
• Land-book
• CSSDSGN
• CSS Design Awards
• UIJar
• Siiimple
• Minimal Gallery

🎞️ Cinematography Stills

• SHOT.CAFE
• [FILMGRAB]
• Flim$

💾 Software Tools

🌈 Colors

• WebGradients.com – Collection of linear gradients
• hue.tools – A free color palette generator, mixer, blender, info and modifier tool
• Paletton – Similar to ↑
• Huemint – Color palette generator with interactive examples
• Eva Design System – Smart color suggestion

🔎 Image Enhancement

• BigjpgL$
• waifu2x – Online image upscaler
• waifu2x-Extension-GUI – loaded with ton of features, algorithms and more technical than waifu2x. Supports video and images. Local, offline application. Only for Windows. Great software.
• Topaz Gigapixel AI$ – Image upscaler
• Topaz Sharpen AI$ – Image sharpener. I've used it on many assets sold here. It's good!
• Topaz Denoise AI$ – Image denoiser. I've tested the trial with RAW images from both my camera and phone. Results are impressive.
• Adobe Lightroom$ has a feature called Raw Details and Super Resolution. Very good results as well. I've used it with Torn Photography and changes were super noticeable. Only works with RAW camera files.
• Topaz Video Enhance AI$ – For videos. Many features like upscaling, denoising, deinterlacing, frame interpolation, etc. This one, with the right settings (always at 200% the original resolution) and input video, can be a game changer.

🎸 Music

Vocal and instruments remover

These all remove or isolate vocals and instruments. I've tested some of them, and they work impressively well. Feels like dark magic 🪄

• StemRoller – This one is free and really good. I helped this project to run faster using GPUs! You may need a fast computer. Otherwise, it will take a lot of time to process a song.
• LALAL.AIL$
• vocalremover.orgL$ – Includes additional features
• MoisesL$ – Includes additional features

🗣️ Language

• DeepLL$ – Awesome translator. Aware of linguistic idioms. I use it frequently not just to translate, but also to check correctness, alternative words or phrases for the same sentence.
• Google Translate – Very well known. Vastly improved in the last couple of years. Still, I find DeepL superior. Can translate entire pages by placing the link in the text input.
• LanguageToolL$ – Multilingual grammar, style, and spell checker
• Website Planet's Spell Checker – Same as ↑
• ChatGPTL$ – This one is awesome. You have to ask it to check for mistakes in your text and it will do it. The more context and info about what you're trying to achieve with your text, the better the results. Can also act as a translator. It's truly a great tool. The free version works very well, but it can be very slow on peak hours.
• GrammarlyL$ – Same as ↑ but only supports the English language

🥝 Misc

• Look Scanned – Make any PDF look scanned
• iTunes Artwork Finder – Search for music albums and podcast covers in high resolution
• Shows & Movies Artwork Finder – Similar tool to the previous one. With logos, preview frames, backgrounds, cover arts. Even though it fetches data from Apple TV, it also shows artworks from other providers.

🪵 Stock Resources

🍿 Mainstream

• 📃 Awesome Stock Resources – An incredible curated collection of links to stock resources. I thought there weren't that many sites until I saw that list. Highly recommended.

Here I'm just including the most popular ones and some that are not there.

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• Pixabay – Photography, video, ilustrations, music and sound effects
• Unsplash – Photography
• Pexels – Photography and video
• Mixkit – Video, music, sound effects and video templates
• DroneStock – Drone video footage
• Artvee – Classical Art in the public domain
• Open Doddles – Illustrations
• Open Peeps – Illustrations
• wirebeats – Music
• Shutterstock$ – Photo, video, music, etc. Lots of stuff.
• Musicbed$ – Music
• Artgrid.io$ – Video
• VidevoL$ – Video
• Artlist$ – Music and sound effects
• Streamline IllustrationsL$

🌍 Web Culture

• Arts Bits from HyperCard – Hand-cleaned sample clips from Apple's ancient HyperCard software
• GifCities – Geocities era GIF search engine (90s and early 2000s)

📒 Directories

• Blue Vertigo
• Design Resources