50+ incredible freebies for web designers, April 2015

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April 27, 2015
50+ incredible freebies for web designers, April 2015.
Amazing designers and developers release new projects every day, that make us excited, inspired, and often more than a little impressed. Today we’re continuing our monthly roundup of the best free resources for web designers, and there’s something for everybody, whether you’re a designer, a developer, or a bit of both. We’ve got UI kits, icon packs, mockups, themes, templates, and more tools than you can use in a month. So free up some hard drive space, then browse through these downloads, enjoy!

1450 Free Vector Icons

SmartIcons is a project that's putting together thousands of useful icons into a smart icon system and giving them away for free. 1450 Free Vector Icons

Flatflow Icons for Sketch

A pretty cool set of icons in a flat style, editable with Sketch. Free for personal and commercial use. Flatflow Icons for Sketch

Flat Web Design Icons

An awesome package of icons with a fresh flat design style, containing elements related to web and graphic design. Flat Web Design Icons

A3 Poster Frame Mockups

A clean set of mockups for you to test-drive your latest poster design. Make use of cool lighting effects and multiple perspectives. A3 Poster Frame Mockups

Creative Poster Template

A good-looking poster design for creative people wanting to promote themselves or their events. It comes with a lot of icons and can be edited in Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. Creative Poster Template

A4 Landscape Brochure Mockup

A neat brochure mockup with multiple lighting effects, smart objects and transparent backgrounds. A4 Landscape Brochure Mockup

Pebble Time Design Kit

The new Pebble Time has created quite a stir, and the design community is no different. Here's a set of mockups for the upcoming gadget. Pebble Time Design Kit

Adorable Flat Workspaces

Make cool desks by interchanging the elements on the table, using one of the three different color combinations available. Adorable Flat Workspaces

Pretty Vintage Text Effect

This Photoshop effect will bring up your texts by giving them an impressive 3D appearance, managing to truly highlight their importance. Pretty Vintage Text Effect

500 Hipster Vector Designs

A rather hefty package of fully vector designs, all editable in Adobe Illustrator. They will allow you to create posters, badges and many other elements. 100 Free Hipster Vector Designs

Apple Watch UI Kit for Sketch

An awesome set of carefully crafted design elements for the Apple Watch, editable only through Sketch 3. Apple Watch UI Kit for Sketch

iCollection UI Kit

Three app designs put together in one so you can take them apart and make your own creations based on them. ICollection UI Kit

Smart UI Kit Lite

A complete set of clean interface elements for Sketch that you can use to set upyour own websites and applications. Smart UI Kit Lite

Vector UI Components

A set of vector components composed of mostly graphs and charts, but also including other elements for media playback, weather and general use. Vector UI Components

iOS 8 GUI Kit

A complete set of design elements for Apple's latest iOS version. It's all made up of vector shapes, editable with Illustrator. iOS 8 GUI Kit

Canaro Font

A modern-looking font that resulted from the exploration of geometrical type designs of the early 20th century. Canaro Font

Bough: Hand-Drawn Typeface

A cool hand-made font with an old school feel to it. It comes with alternate glyphs to achieve a different look each time you use it. Bough: Hand-Drawn Typeface

Streetwear Free Font

A fancy font with a hand-written and vintage feel that you can use for big designs such as posters, t-shirts or branding. Streetwear Free Font

Moscú Free Font

An impressive typeface inspired by Russian constructivism featuring striking shapes and unexpected glyphs. Moscú Free Font

Muller Font

Meant to be the ultimate universal font, Muller works perfectly across all sizes and purposes. Muller Font

Trekking Store PSD Template

A fantastic website template, mostly fit for e-commerce websites that want to feature a familiar, modern look. Editable with Adobe Photoshop. Trekking Store PSD Template

Profile: Website PSD File

Profile started with a fantastic mountain image and developed into a top-class theme choice for any business website. Profile: Website PSD File

The Singhs: E-commerce PSD Template

A very elegant and complete template for your next online store, containing more than 20 PSD files for all the different pages you could need. The Singhs: E-commerce PSD Template

Chromatic WordPress Theme

A neat WordPress theme, best suited for business or personal websites. Works great on any device thanks to its responsive design. Chromatic WordPress Theme

Express: Responsive Magazine WordPress Theme

A magazine WordPress theme with a strong focus on performance, boasting the popular flat design style. Express: Responsive Magazine WordPress Theme

Web Design WordPress Theme

A theme with a rather universal design and easy customization options, making it fit for a great number of websites, no matter the topic they talk about. Free Multi Web Design WordPress Theme

Spectral

This modern HTML template comes with fancy animations and fully responsive design. Simple and effective, Spectral seems like a great match for the modern web. Spectral

Barrier: Business Template

Barrier is a superb template featuring a simple look with Font Awesome icons, portfolio carousel, contact form and many other features. Barrier: Business Template

Motion Blur Experiment

This piece animates a modal window once you click on a button, featuring a fancy motion blur effect as the dialog moves. Motion Blur Experiment

Motion Blur Effect

A motion blur effect created with CSS and JavaScript. You can choose to check it in text or image version. Motion Blur Effect

Dropdown Menus Example

Simple but good looking multi-level navigation exercise, great for your next website development. Dropdown Menus Example

Animated Twitter Button

An awesome animated effect that turns the black screen blue once you hover over the logo button. Animated Twitter Button

React Sign Up Form Example

A beautiful sign up form with a flat style, info validation, animations and hover effects. React Signup Form Example

Segment

Segment is a tool that helps you gather customer data and manage it in many useful ways to improve your apps and user experience. Segment

RAD.js

A mobile app framework for all major mobile systems and even Web browsers. It focuses on ease of use and speed. RAD.js

APIembed

Simplify the coding process for various languages by letting APIembed generate snippets automatically for you. APIembed

ApplePie: A Better Way to Build Web Interfaces

A bold initiative that intends to bring standards to front-end development, providing a set of conventions. ApplePie even has its own toolkit to get you started. ApplePie: A Better Way to Build Web Interfaces

Cachet HQ

Thanks to this open source project, you can keep your users in the loop about the recent status of your service through a simple, comprehensive page. Cachet HQ

Dropplets

A new blogging platform with no database that intends to make the publishing process as easy as can be. Dropplets

Material UI

An HTML5 interface that thoroughly follows Google's Material Design guidelines. It serves as a great test to gauge Material's potential in the future Web. Material UI

Layers

This interesting WordPress site builder is installed just like a regular theme, but then offers a staggering amount of choices to put together the blog you have in your mind. Best of all, it's totally free! Layers

UIkit: Modular Front-end Framework

A lightweight front-end framework featuring a modular approach and lots of customization options. As you'd expect these days, it's more than ready to take on mobile-first projects. UIkit: Modular Front-end Framework

OpenUI5

This tool aims to help you create fantastic web applications that will run on any device, letting you focus on what's really important. OpenUI5

Salvattore

Use this jQuery tool to create amazing grids, customizable through CSS. Salvattore

Dug.js

With Dug.js, you can gather feeds in JSONP (Dribbble, Instagram, Pinterest and many more) and easily display them in your website as HTML script. Dug.js

Sift.js

This useful library uses the power of the MongoDB query language to filter information according to your preset parameters. Sift.js

Space.js

Turn your website into a nice presentation handled with the mouse wheel, using multiple customization settings. Space.js

SedotPress

A lightweight blogging platform created in PHP. No database is required, as all data is saved in JSON format. SedotPress

Responsible.js

Use Responsible.js to give your users the power to choose between mobile and desktop versions of your site in order to achieve the best viewing experience. Responsible.js

FullPage.js

A simple resource to create good looking full-screen scrolling websites in both vertical and horizontal directions. FullPage.js

Cayley

Cayley is a Google-run open source graph that aims to be included in the developer's toolbox when linked and graph-shaped data are involved. Cayley

Juan Pablo Sarmiento

Founder of iconShock (high quality free icon sets), DesignShock (lots of design packs and TemplateShock (printing templates)

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