Creators

Software

Raster

• Affinity
• Photoshop
• GIMP
• Krita
• Pixelmator Pro – macOS only

Photo

• Lightroom
• DaVinci Resolve – v21+ bundles a RAW Photo editor and management capabilities
• Capture One
• Darktable
• DxO PhotoLab

Vector

• Affinity
• Illustrator
• Figma
• Linearity Curve – macOS and iPad only
• Inkscape

Page Layout

• Affinity
• InDesign

Illustration

• Affinity
• Photoshop
• Krita
• Procreate – iPad only

UI/UX

• Figma
• Sketch – macOS only
• Penpot

Video

• DaVinci Resolve
• Premiere Pro
• Final Cut Pro – macOS only
• Kdenlive

Color Grading

• Colorist Foundry – Look development and delivery extensions for DaVinci Resolve Studio. Film emulation DCTLs, LUTs and PowerGrades. Free tier available
• spektrafilm OFX – Free OpenFX plugin that reconstructs the image as physical light spectra instead of remapping RGB values. Spectral film exposure, negative development, optical print, scanner and output transforms

Motion & VFX

• DaVinci Resolve – Fusion module
• Cavalry
• After Effects
• Autograph
• Blender
• Houdini
• Cinema 4D

3D

• Blender
• Houdini
• Cinema 4D

Audio

• Logic Pro – macOS only
• Pro Tools
• Reaper
• Ableton Live
• FL Studio
• Ardour
• GarageBand – macOS only
• Audition
• Audacity

Quick Design

• Canva

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. For Web designers and developers
• Calligrapher.ai – Realistic computer-generated handwriting

Design

• List of tools by TYPEHEIST – Curated list of hidden gems when working with fonts
• Mass-Driver™ Workshop

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 – Open-source font foundry
• Velvetyne
• Oldschool PC Font Pack – Classic system, BIOS fonts. 80s and 90s computer vibes
• OFL Fonts – Directory of fonts released under the SIL Open Font License

Fonts

• This Directory – Jump to Type creators here
• Departure Mono
• IBM Plex
• Public Sans
• Inter – martyr⁠— favorite type
• Epson MX-80 Dot Matrix Fonts
• Work Sans
• Redacted – Keep your wireframes free of distracting Lorem Ipsum
• MonoLisa – A monospaced font designed for developers
• Optician Sans – Font based on historical optotypes

Icons

• Awesome Web Icons – A curated list of awesome Web (font, svg, whatever) icons. Just go there, it's full of pages and resources!
• Icônes – Huge explorer of icon sets
• Iconoir
• Tabler Icons
• Feather
• BrandEPS – Brand icons
• IcoFont – Tons of icons. Includes brands, popular websites, services and social networks
• SVG Spinners – Animated loading SVGs
• Streamline Icons
• Svgl – Library with SVG logos from companies and products

Inspiration

Communities & Portfolios

• Pinterest
• Behance
• Dribbble
• Designspiration
• Artstation
• Deviantart
• /r/blender

Curated Galleries

• Archillect
• Cosmos
• Public Work by Cosmos
• designeverywhere.co
• They Shoot Film
• Eyecandy – Visual technique library for motion graphics, cinema and animation
• SHOT.CAFE
• [FILMGRAB]
• Flim

Website & App Design

• Brutalist Websites
• Awwwards
• 404s – Gallery of error 404 page designs
• Siteinspire
• HOVERSTAT.ES
• One Page Love
• httpster
• Land-book
• CSS Design Awards
• Siiimple
• Minimal Gallery
• Pricing Pages – Curated gallery of pricing page designs
• Craftwork - Website Inspirations
• Mobbin – Real-world UI design reference for mobile and web apps

Editorials

• the html review
• Are.na Editorial
• Eye on Design
• It's Nice That
• Slanted.de
• Behance Blog
• Brand New
• In-house In-focus
• Yanko Design
• Creative Boom
• COCOCOZY
• Dezeen
• print & pattern
• Apartment Therapy
• Design Milk
• decor8
• AINT—BAD
• Logo Design Love
• Design Week
• The Design Blog
• 500px ISO
• PetaPixel
• abdz
• Bandcamp Daily
• Shillington Blog
• Street Art News
• Global Street Art
• Hi-Fructose Magazine
• BOOOOOOOM!
• IGNANT
• designboom
• Art Archives
• WePresent by WeTransfer
• Sidebar
• Motionographer®
• UX Design Weekly
• CSS-Tricks

Utilities

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
• DOODAD - Not Another Gradient Generator
• Eva Design System – Smart color suggestion
• Photo Gradient – Advanced gradient generator with multiple gradient types, warp shapes, and noise algorithms

Image Enhancement

• Upscayl
• Magnific AI – Upscaler with generative enhancement capabilities
• OpenModelDB – Community-driven database of AI upscaling models
• Topaz Photo AI
• Topaz Video AI

Instrument Separation

• Stemroller – Simple and effective to use
• Ultimate Vocal Remover – Advanced, great features
• LALAL.AI
• vocalremover.org
• Moises

Chat Interfaces

• Claude
• Gemini
• ChatGPT
• Grok
• DeepSeek
• Mistral AI
• LM Studio – Run models locally — Needs a capable computer
• Msty – Run models locally — Needs a capable computer
• Jan – Run models locally — Needs a capable computer

Language

• Google Translate
• DeepL
• LanguageTool – Multilingual grammar, style, and spell checker
• Grammarly – Same as ↑ but only supports the English language

Image Dithering

• DOODAD - Dither Me This
• Dither Image Online
• Dither It!
• Dithermark

Misc

• Look Scanned – Make any PDF look scanned
• DOODAD - Pattern Generator
• 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
• Squoosh – Browser-based image compressor with multiple codecs and fine-grained quality controls

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
• 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
• Public Work by Cosmos
• Open Doddles – Illustrations
• Open Peeps – Illustrations
• Shutterstock – Photo, video, music, etc. Lots of stuff
• Musicbed – Music
• Artgrid.io – Video
• Freepik | Videos – Video
• Artlist – Music and sound effects
• Streamline Illustrations

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)

Learning

• Type Design Resources – A growing, public, collaborative collection of type design resources. Everything from learning the basics to running your own foundry
• Growth.Design — Case Studies
• Stencil.wiki – Collaborative platform for stencil and risograph printing. Covers techniques, equipment, inks, guides, and events

Directories

• Blue Vertigo
• Design Resources
• Good Design Tools
• Blogroll
• Internet Phonebook
• Ooh Directory
• Kagi Small Web
• Bear Blog
• People and Blogs
• FMHY