Useful Resources
Useful Pixelmator not Photoshop resources we have curated to help bring your ideas to life.

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.
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Colors
- Colour Lovers ā A great resource to help you select perfect colour combinations
- Flat UI Colors ā Awesome resource for choosing flat colour combinations.
- Flat Color Picker ā Best flat colour picker for UI designs.
- Coolors ā A nice web app to create your own unique colour palettes.
- Material Design Colors ā A great site to help you select UI colour combinations and palettes.
- Colourful Gradients ā An awesome tumblr site collection of gradients to die for.
- Brand Colors ā A site where you can find the colour combinations for the biggest brands and websites.
- BootFlat Color Picker ā A colour picker which gives you perfect colours for flat designs.
- UI Colors ā Give you awesome UI colours for your website designs.
- Colorion ā Create awesome colour palettes using a simple drag and drop online tool.
- Canva Colors ā Really cool colors and color combinations for inspiration.
Fonts
- Google Fonts ā Hundreds of free, open-source fonts optimized for the web.
- DaFont.com ā Archive of freely downloadable fonts.
- Font Cab ā Loads of free fonts for commercial use.
- Font Space ā Hundreds of free truetype and opentype fonts for Windows and Mac.
- Font Squirrel ā A great collection of handpicked free fonts.
- Abstract Fonts ā Free as you please fonts.
- Open Font Library ā Free to use as your please fonts.
- 1001 Free Fonts ā Free for all fonts.
- The League Of Moveable Type ā well-made, free & open-source fonts.
- Adobe Web Fonts ā Large selection of free web fonts.
- The Northern Block ā Full of free fonts.
- Urban Fonts ā Tons of free fonts to be had (make sure they are free).
- Font Struct ā Design and share free fonts.
- Fonts In Use ā Shows you the fonts used in the real world.
- I Love Typography ā A great typo blog.
- Type Wolf ā A great set of typo resources from Type Wolf.
Icons
- Make App Icon ā A tool to auto-generate the various app icon sizes required for IOS.
Inspiration
- Abduzeedo ā Really cool inspiration for graphic design (and also check out some of the pixelmator tutorial too).
- Deviant Art ā Largest online art exhibition and gallery. Also a great place to pick up some free graphics.
- Illustration Friday ā Art exhibit and challenge website with some great artwork.
- Inspiration Grid ā 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 ā All awesome patterns on this site can mostly be used free of charge.
- Pixelmator Templates ā Check out some of the patterns on our store.
Photo Resources (mostly free)
- Unsplash ā Free (do whatever you want) high resolution photographs. 10 new photos each day.
- Pixabay ā Free high quality images you can use anywhere. Now with AI generated images.
- New Old Stock ā A really cool collection of vintage photos.
- Death To Stock Photo ā Great photos for all purposes (from free to commercial use).
- Public Domain Archive ā 100% free stock photos each week.
- Little Visuals ā Weekly high resolution photos, free to use as you want.
- Pic Jumbo ā Free photos for all your projects.
- Free Images ā Free images and stock photos.
- Gratis Photography ā Free, use as you please, photographs.
- Super Famous ā Great high resolution photos (attribution required).
- Startup Stock Photos ā Free photos for you to make something.
- Morguefile ā Free photographs for commercial use.
- Picography ā Gorgeous free photos.
- GetRefe ā Free real life photos.
- Jay Mantri ā Free pics to do anything.
- Travel Coffee Book ā Creative photos from travel (mostly free).
- Pexels ā Free high quality stock photos.
- Lummi.ai - Free high quality AI generated stock photos.
Shapes
- Pixelmator Templates ā Free and Premium shapes created by us.
Textures
- CG Textures ā A great site providing free textures for 3d and graphic design (make sure to read FAQ for T&Cās).
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)
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Have a great Pixelmator suggestion/resource you want to share with the Pixelmator Not Photoshop community?, then please leave a comment or email us, so that we can continue to keep this list updated.