100 Best Web Design Tools For Creative Entrepreneurs

Typography

Fontface Ninja (Free) – Identify that cool font on the page you are browsing.

Google Fonts (Free) – Find and use high-quality fonts for your projects.

Adobe Typekit (Paid) – Get access to a huge bundle of premium fonts.

Fontstruct (Free) – Online font-building tool, fonts can be shared and downloaded.

Font Squirrel (Free) – One of the biggest database of free fonts.

Type light (Free) – A fully functional, OpenType font editor.

What Font is (Free) – What Font is allows you to identify the font you are looking for.

1001 Fonts (Free) – Database of almost 15.000 different fonts.

Font Flame (Free) – Tinder for font pairing. Hate it or use it.

Typecast (Free) – Create visual and semantic designs that put type first.

Stock Photos

Unsplash (Free) – 10 new photos every 10 days.

FoodiesFeed (Free) – Free food photos.

Free Refe Photos (Free) – Huge list of images. Mostly landscape and nature photos.

Little Visuals (Free) – High-resolution landscape and building photos.

Gratisography (Free) – A massive database of free photos.

Death to the Stock Photo (Free) – Free stock photos to your email every month.

Superfamous (Free) – Huge collection of nature and are wider-angle shots.

The Pattern Library (Free) – A huge number of patterns and textures.

New Old Stock (Free) – Vintage photos from the public archives.

Pexels (Free) – A massive database of stock photos you can use everywhere

Stock Graphics

Brusheezy (Free) – Free Photoshop brushes, patterns, textures, and much more.

Iconfinder (Free) – Search engine for free icons.

The ispot (Paid) – Premium illustrations from top level artists.

Illustrio (Paid) – Extensive library of images.

Round Icons (Paid) – The biggest icons bundle in the world.

Brushez (Free) – Huge collection of free Photoshop brushes.

Vecteezy (Free) – Huge variety of vector asset including icons and illustrations.

Webalys (Paid) – Premium icons by Vincent le Moign.

Font Bundles (Paid) – Home of premium fonts and font bundles.

GraphickStock (Free) – An unlimited number of high-quality, royalty-free photos, vectors and illustrations.

Infographics

Vizualize.me (Free) – Create your infographic or resume.

Canva (Free) – A simple design tool to create anything you need.

Easel.ly (Free) – Resume and infographic templates.

Infogr.am (Free) – Online tool for infographics and interactive charts.

Visage (Free) – A simple design tool for creating visual content.

Gliffy (Free) – Online diagramming tool.

Visme (Free) – Online presentation and infographics tool with 1000′s of templates and graphics.

Piktochart (Free) – Natural infographic design to create high-quality graphics.

Draw.io (Free) – Online tool for making flow charts, process diagrams and network diagrams.

Venngage (Free) – Easy infographic maker.

Collaboration

GoVisually (Paid) – One of the top tools to collect client feedback for your projects.

TrackDuck (Paid) – It allows leaving feedback right on a website or image file.

Lingo (Free) – With Lingo, you can build and share libraries of visual assets.

Red Pen (Paid) – Drag and drop your design and get the feedback from your friends.

Bounce (Free) – An easy way to share your ideas on any website.

Usersnap (Paid) – It lets you take screenshots of web pages and annotate them.

InVision (Paid) – Prototyping, collaboration and workflow platform.

Marqueed (Free) – Markup and discuss images online. Pretty useful for Photoshop.

Zeplin (Free) – Collaboration app for frontend developers and UI designers.

Cage (Free) – Nice dashboard to collaborate with team and clients.

Colors

Color Hunt (Free) – A curated collection of beautiful colors.

TinEye (Free) – Determine your colors and search images with the perfect color combination.

ColorZilla (Free) – Perfect extension for picking colors from a web page.

Adobe Color CC (Free) – Generate and save various color schemes.

Coolors (Free) – Color generator for your designs.

Colicious (Free) – Just press space bar and generate new color.

Paletton (Free) – Tool for creating color combinations.

Pictaculous (Free) – Color palette generate from PNG, JPG and GIF.

Hex Color Tool (Free) – Color picking tool.

(Un)clrd (Free) – A browser extension that turns every website into black and white.

Inspiration

Dribbble – The biggest community of designers and place of their work.

Muzli – Daily design inspiration.

Awwwards – The best efforts by developers, designers and web agencies in the world.

Design You Trust – Design blog and a huge community sharing latest trends, news, portfolios, fashion design, and creative ads.

Really Good Emails – Huge collection of well-designed emails.

Fubiz – One of the most popular creative publications covering the latest creative news.

Designspiration – Pinterest-style board of high-level design inspiration.

Behance – Discover the latest work from top online portfolios by creative professionals.

Mobile Patterns – A library of iOS and Android screenshots for your inspiration.

One Page Love – Gallery showcasing the best single page website designs.

Prototyping

Sketch (Paid) – The perfect tool for UI and UX design. But only compatible with Mac.

Napkin (Free) – App for designing quick mocks on your iPhone.

Proto.io (Paid) – Mobile app prototyping tool that allows you to create fully interactive mobile app prototypes.

Axure (Paid) – Quickly design prototypes from your computer and share them.

Balsamiq (Paid) – Wireframing and mockup tool with a high focus on usability.

Weld (Free) – Draw your website online, just the way you want it.

POP (Paid) – Helps you to transfer your pen + paper ideas to a real working prototype.

Flinto (Paid) – Sketch interactive prototypes from static images.

HTML5 UP (Free) – Responsive and customizable HTML5 templates.

Moqups (Paid) – HTML5 based web app for making wireframes, UI designs, prototypes, and mockups.

Graphics Editors

Photoshop (Paid) – One of the best tools in the industry. Perfect for enhancing photographs, designs, and 3D artwork.

Illustrator (Paid) – To build beautiful vector arts.

DAZ 3D (Free) – To create realistic humans and animals in 3D.

Gimp (Free) – Open source editor for editing and retouching images.

Blender (Free) – Open source 3D creation.

Affinity (Paid) – Photo editing tool. For Mac only.

Aviary (Free) – Photo editing mobile app for Android/iOS and the Web.

Pixlr (Free) – Online image editor.

DrawPlus (Paid) – Create amazing logos, drawings and designs, at a reasonable price.

BeFunky (Free) – Simple online photo editor.

Logo Design

Squarespace Logo (Paid) – Drag and drop logo creator.

Free Logo Maker (Free) – Simple logo creator with flat icons materials.

DesignMantic (Free) – Enter company name, select your industry, and it will generate a logo for you.

Logogénie (Paid) – Logo Genie makes logo design easy and fun.

Logotype Maker (Free) – Random generates logotype for your company.

Logo Garden (Paid) – Online logo creator with hundreds of fonts and icons.

Logoshi (Paid) – Draw a messy sketch, get a modern logo.

Logaster (Paid) – Online logo maker and generator.

Logo Maker (Paid) – Generate hundreds of potential logo and modify them online.

Tailor Brands (Paid) – Quick and easy custom logo maker tool.


Source: /www.forbes.com