Favorite Design Resources

2025-02-24

As a Designer, I have gathered quite the list of design resources during my career. Here are some of my favorites that I always come back to.

The Noun Project is one of the best places for icon research. You can see what words match up with what icons and download SVGs of the results.
Simple Icons is where you can grab icons/logos of a lot of commercial companies.

Fonts in Use is a great resource to discover typefaces and typeface usages.
Typography for Lawyers is the ultimate guide when it comes to typeface styling. This is one of the best typeface guides you need to create well-design, clear type designs.
WhatTheFont for translating screenshots to typeface options.
Free Faces is a great resource for free typefaces.
Open Foundry is a great resource for free typefaces.
Typescale is a great resource to visualize web type scales quickly.

Pexels is a great stock image resource.
Unsplash is a good stock image resource. This website is beginning to get worse, so it may be removed soon as it is starting to suffer from enshittification.

Web Color Contrast Checker is a good resource to check ADA text readability requirements for web.
Coolors is a fun, easy color palette generator.