AD| Top 10 Sites for Design Resources and Fonts

The internet is such a wonderful thing. To have so much information at ones fingertips really is extraordinary. Whether you’re searching for the answer to a burning question, looking to buy that perfect outfit for a special occasion or simply want to look at funny photos of cats, the internet will always deliver the goods you’re looking for.

Businesses, whether small or large, as well as freelancers and the self-employed also make the most of the internet. Who would have thought in those pre-internet days that you could ever log into a computer and find everything that you ever need at the simple press of a button!

Whether you’re a graphic designer, crafter, parent, teacher or student you can find all the design resources and fonts you want simply by knowing where to look on the internet. Perhaps it’s for your schoolwork, a hobby or maybe even a work project such as card making, scrapbooks, branding, weddings or something else. Here are 10 sites for all of your design resources and fonts.

Design Bundles

Design Bundles offer a really wonderful alternative to the hungry JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) – basically a popular image file format that it commonly used by digital cameras to store photos.

Design Bundles offers exclusive deals on high quality premium design resources and they also have plenty of free design resources. They offer savings of up to 96% off the RRP on design elements from thousands of independent designers.

What’s more they also offer free design resources each week and they have a marketplace that allows graphic designers to register and sell their own products. Their customers always come first and with their lifetime download guarantee and unlimited support – they are sure you will love shopping with them.

Font Bundles

An alternative to Font Space is Font Bundles. They offer exclusive deals on the highest quality premium and free fonts from independent designers. In addition they offer savings of up to 96% off fonts on a regular basi, plus they also offer a Font Free every week. Much like Design Bundles their marketplace allows artists to register and list their fonts for sale and include them in font bundles and deals.

Dribbble

Dribble is where designers can gain inspiration, feedback, community, and jobs. It’s a great resource to discover and connect with designers worldwide.

Founded in 2009, Dribbble are a bootstrapped and profitable company helping design talent share, grow, and get hired by over 40,000 of today’s most innovative brands around the world.

They can help players like you share small screenshots (shots) to show off your current projects, boost your portfolio, and love what you do—no matter what kind of creative professional you are.

Paaatterns

As the name suggests, Paatterns offers a free collection of beautiful patterns for all vector formats. From interesting hand-crafted shapes and well-chosen colours, you’re sure find the perfect pattern for you.

Their designed are easy to customise and edit to layer styles and vector shapes. You can also use Paaatterns together with powerful design system to speed up your workflow

Design Cuts

Design Cuts lets you find quality design resources such as fonts, graphics, textures, patterns, templates and more. Their website also offers freebies, tutorials and podcasts. Their aim is to help designers get together; to support each other, provide feedback, share resources, knowledge and enjoy each others company. You can also dip into their Facebook group to see what their community are up to.

Font Pair

Font Pair is another great resource that helps designers pair Google Fonts together. Font Pair is a typography site dedicated to helping creators use beautiful typography for their creative projects. Their goal is to empower all to design. 

Envato

Envato was founded in 2006 to help you bring your ideas and projects to life. Envato is the world’s leading marketplace and community for creative assets and creative people. Their subscription offers unlimited downloads of premium digital assets.

Fframes

Fframes offers a collection free resources of fully responsive vector mockup frames for iPhones, iPads and Android devices amongst other browsers and apps. You can edit them in Photoshop or other programmes and then download them for free.

HypeForType

HypeForType is the largest online font shop in Europe. They currently distribute more than 35,000 fonts for over 350 type foundries in 62 different countries. In addition they also offer a custom type development service which includes the creation of corporate typefaces and families in Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Indic, Chinese, Thai, and more. They also offer font licensing for a wide variety of uses including Brand Fonts, Brand Identity, Broadcast, Desktop, Goods For Direct Sale, Merchandise, eBook, Publication, Gaming, Server, OEM, and more. 

HueSnap

HueSnap allows you to create beautiful colour palettes using either their colour picker or by uploading an image and selecting the shade from that. They also have a user-created palette that you can scroll through for the perfect colour.