Updated Hand-picked for Designers

A Curated Index For
Growing Designers.

The internet's best graphic design resources, to sharpen your eye and elevate your work.

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Design Index — Curated Graphic Design Resources

A hand-picked directory of the best tools, references, and inspiration for graphic designers — type foundries, stock imagery, color tools, books, assets, and more.

Inspiration

Visuelle — UK archive of editorial and identity projects
Visual Journal — Curated blog of branding and graphic design
Are.na — Visual bookmarking for mood boards and archives
Behance — Portfolio network across all disciplines
Cosmos — Daily feed of experimental graphics and typography
Pinterest — Fast image search for palette and composition references
Archives Design — Digital archive of graphic design history
Savee It — Grid-based inspiration boards

Type Tools

Font Ninja — Browser extension that identifies any website font
Font Base — Free desktop font manager
TypeLab — Free high-quality typefaces

Type Shops

Creative Market — Marketplace for fonts and digital assets
Pixel Surplus — Affordable font and creative bundles
Type Department — Marketplace for indie foundries worldwide

Type Foundries

Blaze Type — Bold contemporary display families
Pangram Pangram — Free trial fonts for modern branding
ABC Dinamo — Swiss variable font innovators
Sharp Type — High-performance retail type
OhNo Type Co — Whimsical display and text font families
VJ Type — Open-source variable fonts for editorial use
The Designers Foundry — Limited edition international type
Tropical Type — Lettering for youth and apparel graphics
Off-type — Experimental variable and kinetic fonts
Emyself Design — Expressive, texture-rich typefaces
Brandon Nickerson — Wordmark templates and lettering resources
OTT Foundry — Korean foundry blending tradition with modern grotesques
Tan Type Co — Fashion-forward display fonts

Assets

True Grit Texture Supply — Distressed brushes and craft textures
BlkMarket — Premium textures, overlays, and 3D elements
Doron Supply — Photo and video overlays
Tooooools — Free experimental lo-fi image effects
Effect App — Lo-fi and experimental image effects
Bracken.design — Grunge brushes and torn paper mockups
YouWorkForThem — Premium fonts, graphics, and motion templates
Design Syndrome — Poster templates and gradient assets
Studio 2AM — High-resolution collage elements
Studio AAA — Cinematic mockups and Lightroom presets
Studio Innate — Gradients, grids, and experimental textures
Samolevsky — Glitch textures, brushes, and retro kits
Foxrockettstudio — Creative asset packs
Design Family Market — Discounted bundles of fonts and Photoshop LUTs

Color

Coolors — AI-powered palette generator
Color Hunt — Community-curated palettes
Adobe Color — Palette harmonies for Adobe apps
Pigment Shape Factory — Gradient and duotone generator
Khroma — AI palette generator that learns your taste

Stock

ArtVee — Public-domain artworks from museums
Public.Work — High-resolution public-domain archives
Public Domain Archive — 10,000+ historical images free to reuse
Unsplash Experimental — Abstract photography for mood boards
Pexels — Free stock photos cleared for commercial use

Design News

Brand New — Daily logo and rebrand critiques
It's Nice That — Art, culture, and experimental design
The Brand Identity — Deep-dive identity and print features
Creative Boom — Interviews and advice for creatives
TLDR Design — Weekly roundup of design news and tools
Design Reviewed — Archive of 20th-century graphic design

Books

Bookstores

TASCHEN — Art and design monographs
Unit Editions — Limited run books from legendary designers
Counter Print UK — Indie retailer for modernist books and zines
Draw-Down Books — Typography and risograph art books
Victionary — Trend-forward tactile art books

Creators

The Futur — Strategy and career coaching for creatives
PiXimperfect — Photoshop retouching and compositing
Louis Moss — Illustrator lessons on logos and type
Design.Syndrome — Process breakdowns and asset packs
Doron Studio — Photoshop tutorials with free resources
Oren Meets World — Freelance vlogs and design challenges