Useful Resources

Seeing your designs come to life quickly is really rewarding. But finding useful design resources for your project can be a huge pain. So here is a list of some of our favourites we use with Pixelmator, which will help you bring your ideas to life.

Colors

• Colour Lovers – A great resource to help you select perfect colour combinations
• Flat UI Colors – Awesome resource for choosing flat colour combinations.
• Flat Color Picker – Best flat colour picker for UI designs.
• Coolors – A nice web app to create your own unique colour palettes.
• Material Design Colors – A great site to help you select UI colour combinations and palettes.
• Colourful Gradients – An awesome tumblr site collection of gradients to die for.
• Brand Colors – A site where you can find the colour combinations for the biggest brands and websites.
• BootFlat Color Picker – A colour picker which gives you perfect colours for flat designs.
• UI Colors – Give you awesome UI colours for your website designs.
• Colorion – Create awesome colour palettes using a simple drag and drop online tool.
• Canva Colors – Really cool colors and color combinations for inspiration.

Fonts

• Google Fonts – Hundreds of free, open-source fonts optimized for the web.
• DaFont.com – Archive of freely downloadable fonts.
• Font Cab – Loads of free fonts for commercial use.
• Font Space – Hundreds of free truetype and opentype fonts for Windows and Mac.
• Font Squirrel – A great collection of handpicked free fonts.
• Abstract Fonts – Free as  you please fonts.
• Open Font Library – Free to use as your please fonts.
• 1001 Free Fonts – Free for all fonts.
• The League Of Moveable Type – well-made, free & open-source fonts.
• Adobe Web Fonts –  Large selection of free web fonts.
• The Northern Block – Full of free fonts.
• Urban Fonts – Tons of free fonts to be had (make sure they are free).
• Font Struct – Design and share free fonts.
• Fonts In Use – Shows you the fonts used in the real world.
• I Love Typography – A great typo blog.
• Type Wolf – A great set of typo resources from Type Wolf.

Icons

• Make App Icon – A tool to auto-generate the various app icon sizes required for IOS.

Inspiration

• Abduzeedo – Really cool inspiration for graphic design (and also check out some of the pixelmator tutorial too).
• Deviant Art – Largest online art exhibition and gallery. Also a great place to pick up some free graphics.
• Illustration Friday – Art exhibit and challenge website with some great artwork.
• Inspiration Grid – Graphic Design Inspiration (and lots of them).
• Designer Daily - Daily dose of graphic design inspiration.
• Iso50 - super artist blog by Scott Hansen.
• Jimmy Turrell - another artist we like for his iconic designs, Jimmy Turrell.

Patterns

• Subtle Patterns – All awesome patterns on this site can mostly be used free of charge.
• Pixelmator Templates – Check out some of the patterns on our store.

Photo Resources (mostly free)

• Unsplash – Free (do whatever you want) high resolution photographs. 10 new photos each day.
• Pixabay – Free high quality images you can use anywhere. Now with AI generated images.
• New Old Stock – A really cool collection of vintage photos.
• Death To Stock Photo – Great photos for all purposes (from free to commercial use).
• Public Domain Archive – 100% free stock photos each week.
• Little Visuals – Weekly high resolution photos, free to use as you want.
• Pic Jumbo – Free photos for all your projects.
• Free Images – Free images and stock photos.
• Gratis Photography – Free, use as you please, photographs.
• Super Famous – Great high resolution photos (attribution required).
• Startup Stock Photos – Free photos for you to make something.
• Morguefile – Free photographs for commercial use.
• Picography – Gorgeous free photos.
• GetRefe – Free real life photos.
• Jay Mantri – Free pics to do anything.
• Travel Coffee Book – Creative photos from travel (mostly free).
• Pexels – Free high quality stock photos.
• Lummi.ai - Free high quality AI generated stock photos.

Shapes

• Pixelmator Templates – Free and Premium shapes created by us.

Textures

• CG Textures – A great site providing free textures for 3d and graphic design (make sure to read FAQ for T&C’s).

Website Tools

• Ghost.org - our current hosting provider, if you are looking for something simpler than WordPress.
• Gumroad - our current digital product hosting platform - so simple to use. (affiliate link)