63 Design Tools
Design Tools : Powerful web tools to help you find the best parts and optimize your designs.Links to the best free Designer tools and online Design Resources.
1.Web 2.0 and grudge free buttons generator!
You can create a web 2.0 button in only 4 steps. You can paint your button with preloaded web 2.0 icons or upload your personal icon and customize the font of the text inserted. Enjoy with php, gd2 and Photoshop base button and jquery ajax…
www.mycoolbutton.com
2.Lorem Ipsum – All the facts – Lipsum generator
www.lipsum.com
3.Designers Toolbox: Graphic Design Tools : Lorem Ipsum Text Generator : Create An Online Portfolio
lorem ipsum text, lorem ipsum generator, Create An Online Portfolio
www.designerstoolbox.com
www.colorsuckr.com
5.Best Brands of the World – vector logos, brand, logo, logotype, photos
largest collection of the brands, logos and logotypes in vector format
www.brandsoftheworld.com
6.dafont.com
Archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by alphabetical listing, by style, by author or by popularity.
www.dafont.com
7.stock.xchng – the leading free stock photography site
stock photography community – browse our huge gallery for high quality stock photos or share yours with others.
www.sxc.hu
8.WhatTheFont : MyFonts
Download fonts for Mac and PC at MyFonts, the world’s largest collection of fonts online.
www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont
9.LiveSurface Layered Image Templates
Shift LiveSurface Layered Image Library. Finally: creating presentation-ready, photographically-rendered images with your flat artwork is simple and accurate.
www.livesurface.com
Search our royalty free stock images and photos or browse a giant selection of stock photography. Purchase royalty free stock photos at iStockphoto.com.
www.istockphoto.com
11.Dummy Text Generator | Lorem ipsum for webdesigners
A handy Lorem Ipsum Generator that helps to create dummy text for all layout needs.
www.blindtextgenerator.com
Generate seamless striped background images!
www.stripegenerator.com
13.Iconfinder – Icon search made easy!
Icon search engine. Perfect for webdesigner – all icons are in high quality PNG with transparency.
www.iconfinder.net
14.Tiled backgrounds designer
Web based tiled backgrounds designer, create any pattern your site needs just for few minutes. Adjustable size, pictures, colors, texture and transparency
www.bgpatterns.com
15.The W3C Markup Validation Service
W3C’s easy-to-use HTML validation service, based on an SGML parser.
validator.w3.org
Free online HTML tool that shows instantly how your website looks like in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, 6 and 5.5.
www.ipinfo.info/netrenderer/
17.[CG Textures] – The worlds largest free texture site
25.000+ high resolution textures, free for personal and commercial use!
www.cgtextures.com
18.ColorSchemer Gallery | Website-ready color schemes for ColorSchemer
Download free website-ready color schemes for Color Schemer
www.colorschemer.com/schemes
19.COLOURlovers :: Color Trends + Palettes
Find design inspiration with thousands of palettes and color schemes to fall in love with. Influence color trends by rating, commenting and sharing.
www.colourlovers.com
20.favicon.ico Generator
favicon.cc is a tool to create or download favicon.ico icons, that get displayed in the address bar of every browser.
www.favicon.cc
21.Dynamic Drive- FavIcon Generator
Use this online tool to easily create a favorites icon (favicon) for your site. Capable of generating desktop icons as well.
tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon
22.1001 Free Fonts – Download Free Fonts – Free Windows and Mac Fonts
1001 free fonts offers a huge selection of freeware and shareware TrueType fonts. Download free fonts for Windows and Macintosh. Handwriting fonts and Signature fonts service available.
www.1001freefonts.com
23.Free Photoshop Brushes at Brusheezy!
Photoshop Brushes – Brusheezy is the a HUGE collection of Photoshop Brushes and Photoshop Patterns to download, or upload your own!
www.brusheezy.com
24.Typetester Compare fonts for the screen
The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier.
www.typetester.org
25.960 Grid System
The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow.
www.960.gs
26.Color Combinations | Color Schemes | Color Palettes
A tool for web developers to test color combinations, along with a library of pre-selected combinations.
www.colorcombos.com
27.Dynamic Drive DHTML(dynamic html) & JavaScript code library
Click here for Dynamicdrive.com, a comprehensive DHTML site featuring DHTML scripts, tutorials, and more.
www.dynamicdrive.com
Vecteezy is an index of Free Vectors available for download by some of the best designers around the world.
www.vecteezy.com
www.typechart.com
30.Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test – Browsershots
Test your web design in different browsers – Browsershots
www.browsershots.org
31.Veerle’s Topp, Daily Color Scheme – Your every-day color resource, we bring you daily-fresh colorschemes
dailycolorscheme.com is your daily color resource. A new scheme every day, with lots of schemes in the archive.
beta.dailycolorscheme.com
32.Welcome to Aviary
Aviary is a suite of web-based applications (RIAs) for people who create. From image editing to typography to music to 3D to video, we have a tool for artists of all genres.
www.aviary.com
33.Color Scheme Designer 3
A brand new interface, as well as the engine, all rewritten from the scratch. Rapidly increased precision and color space conversions, better preview, enhanced scheme creation system, unique scheme IDs and permanent URL of the scheme.
www.colorschemedesigner.com
34.Web Developer’s Handbook | CSS, Web Development, Color Tools, SEO, Usability etc.
Web Developer’s Handbook is a list of essential web-sites, which make the life of web developers easier. Compiled and updated by Vitaly Friedman
www.alvit.de/handbook
35.Open Source Web Design – Download free web design templates.
Download and upload free web designs.
www.oswd.org
36.FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts
FontStruct. Build, Share, Download Fonts
fontstruct.fontshop.com
37.Color Hunter
Color palettes made from images
www.colorhunter.com
38.Buttonator
Buttonator.com , Drag and drop web buttons for your site, cool styles, fun to use, free, even create an account and store your own buttons!
www.buttonator.com
39.Identifont – Identify fonts by appearance, find fonts by name
Find a font by name or identify a font by answering questions about its appearance.
www.identifont.com
40.Font Burner
www.fontburner.com
41.Axure – Wireframes, Prototypes, Specifications
Download a free trial of Axure RP, business drawing software for creating mockups and wireframes of application user interfaces. This easy to use software generates HTML prototypes and functional specifications.
www.axure.com
42.kuler
Color palette editing and sharing site, from Adobe.
kuler.adobe.com
43.The Grid System
The Grid System is a resource for all designers to learn about the benefits of using grid systems, golden ratios and baseline grids.
www.thegridsystem.org
44.Color Theory @ ColorJack
ColorJack is an online Color Scheme Generator used by Graphic Designers, Interior Decorators, and many other people from around the world. Currently available in 13 languages.
www.colorjack.com
45.RoundedCornr: Rounded Corner and Gradient Generator
This online tool generates HTML/CSS code and images to decorate your Web site with rounded corners and gradient.
www.roundedcornr.com
46.ColoRotate
ColoRotate is a 3D tool for viewing and editing colors.
www.colorotate.org
Build dazzling color schemes with software from ColorSchemer
www.colorschemer.com
48.LogoPond – Identity Inspiration
Logo Pond – A place to fish for ideas, Brand and Identity showcase
www.logopond.com
49.Ajaxload – Ajax loading gif generator
Ajaxload – Ajax loading gif generator
www.ajaxload.info
50.FavIcon from Pics — free favicon.ico for your website (animated, static and marquee icons)
Free and easy to use online tool that can create favicon (.ico) images for browser address bars, favorites and tabs, from pictures, logos and other graphics.
www.html-kit.com/favicon
51.Free Fonts – Free Font Download – Cool Fonts
Download free fonts and free dingbats. PC fonts, Mac fonts, truetype fonts.
www.urbanfonts.com
52.Designers Toolbox: OS Form Elements
Design tools for creative professionals. Print resources, online guides, legal forms, and much more.
www.designerstoolbox.com/designresources/elements
53.CSS Type Set
CSS Type Set is a hands-on typography tool allowing designers and developers to interactively test and learn how to style their web content.
www.csstypeset.com
54.Converticon 2.1
Convert ICO to PNG or PNG to ICO with this little web application.
www.converticon.com/
55.Stripe Generator – ajax diagonal stripes background designer
Generate seamless striped background images!
www.stripegenerator.com/?page=index
56.ColorSchemer – Online Color Scheme Generator
Generate matching color schemes like never before!
www.colorschemer.com/online.html
57.PXtoEM.com: PX to EM conversion made simple.
PXtoEM.com is px to em conversion made simple. Choose your body font size in pixels (px)and out comes a complete pixel (px) to em conversion table, making elastic web design with CSS a snap
www.pxtoem.com
58.Vector Magic | Precision Bitmap to Vector Conversion Online
Vector Magic – precision bitmap to vector conversion online
www.vectormagic.com
59.Wufoo – HTML Form Builder – Free Contact Forms & Online Surveys
Wufoo’s form builder is the easiest way to create and style beautiful HTML forms, online polls and event registrations without writing a single line of code.
www.wufoo.com
Choose or upload a photo and a palette of colors based on the colors in the photo will be generated automatically. Use it to help with art projects, website design, or even with decorating your home.
www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/colors.php
61.Lightbox 2
Lightbox 2 is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.
www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2
62.Em Calculator
Em Calculator is a small JavaScript tool which helps making scalable and accessible CSS design. It converts size in pixels to relative em units, which are based on a text size.
www.riddle.pl/emcalc
63.FREE Logo Maker – FREE Logo Creator – FREE Online Logo Design
Design your own logo in minutes with our easy-to-use online logo maker. Get a FREE web-ready logo for your website.
www.logomaker.com
new web service for prototyping UI:
Coutline’s professional online platform is an efficient tool that allows to create and design website prototypes and documentation
http://coutline.com
sample project:
https://www.coutline.com/coside/designer/page/area/r?page_id=1b7f58dcc0edf864
Excellent collections of very useful resources and links.
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Fatpaint has more drawing and painting features than any other online graphics application, and it has built-in thousands of graphical resources.
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