50 fresh resources for designers, September 2016

Paddi Macdonnell.
September 05, 2016
50 fresh resources for designers, September 2016.
It’s that time again. Here’s this month’s collection of the best free stuff for designers. We’ve got fonts, icons, brushes, templates and few extra little tools to make life that bit easier. Browse through, have fun with them, and let us know which are your favorites!

Born

01born Born is a rather elegant ‘humanist serif’ typeface which comes with uppercase, lowercase, alternative glyphs, normal ligatures uppercase numerals and symbols, and punctuation marks.

PlayerTip

02playertip A fun font that calls to mind classic cartoons, PlayerTip is great for kids.

Courage

03courage Courage is a display font inspired by Muhammed Ali, and available in 2 weights.

Gilroy

47gilroy Gilroy is a modern sans serif with a geometric touch. Get two weights for free.

Olesia

04olesia Olesia is a handwritten font with a feminine feel, for adding some character to your designs.

kraM

05kram KraM is a handlettered brush font that supports latin and cyrillic alphabets.

Anana

06anana Anana is a free brush font with some freeform ligatures.

Kano

07kano Kano is a geometric typeface, good for display with it’s sharp edges and interesting angles.

Hammock

08hammock Hammock is a handmade font with a fresh, outdoors feel.

Skywalker Shadow Grunge

09skywalker Skywalker Shadow Grunge is an art deco style font, available as a free taster of the Skywalker font.

Bionic Regular

10bionic Bionic Regular is a free to use version of Bionic, a futuristic font.

Maddox Gothic

11maddox Maddox Gothic is a free display font.

Relate

12relate Relate is a free UI Kit from InVision that features a clean, minimal style and vector only shapes to allow scalability with no optimization necessary. It’s available for Photoshop and Sketch.

Based

13based Based is a feed UI kit for sketch, with an easily customized minimal design style.

Chat UI Kit

14cometchat Chat UI Kit is a free UI kit from CometChat which, as you might guess from the name, is a UI Kit for chat apps. Its currently available for Sketch, or as EPS, PSD or PNG.

Guacamole

15guacamole Guacamole is a free UI kit from Avocode. Currently available for Photoshop, Adobe Xd and Sketch, and coming soon in React Native.

Windows 95 Kit

16windows95 If you fancy a bit of nostalgia, or to remind yourself how poor interface design tended to be 20 years ago, here’s a ui kit based on windows 95.

Food Order App Kit

17foodorder Free UI kit for a food ordering service app.

Ease UI Sample

18ease A small taster of a modern, stylish UI kit.

Carioca Sample

19carioca A sample of 15 screens from the Carioca mobile UI kit.

Sign In / Sign Up UI Kit

20signin Some stylish screens for a sign in/register page.

Luxe

21luxe Luxe is a Bootstrap website template aimed at the hotel industry.

Twist

22twist Twist is a one page website template built using Bootstrap.

Zerif Lite

23zerif Recently updated, Zerif Lite is a fully responsive, one page WordPress theme.

Shop Isle

24shopisle Recently updated, this fully responsive ecommerce WordPress theme has a clean look and is WooCommerce ready.

Components

25components Forked from Underscores, Components goes a step further and allows you to generate a starter theme based on a specific type, such as Portfolio, Magazine or Classic Blog.

Blaze_CSS

26blaze_css Blaze is a fully responsive, unopinionated modular CSS framework with built in components.

Minimal Icon Pack

27minimal A set of 1800 minimal icons featuring two styles: sharp, and rounded.

Bytesize

48bytesize Style controlled SVG icon set.

Animal Icons

50animal A collection of 71 cute little critters, available in various formats.

Crafticons

28crafticons Crafticons is a set of 40 free outline icons.

Icons for Olympics

29olympics A small set of free icons in honour of Rio 2016 Part 1 (Olympics).

Wood Patterns

30wood Set of 10 seamless wood patterns to use as backgrounds for a variety of projects.

Cloud Photos

31clouds Set of 10 cloud images which can be used as backgrounds in a variety of print or screen projects.

Abstract Photos

32abstract A set of 20 abstract photos for use as backgrounds. Each photo comes in two different versions.

Watercolor Brushes

33watercolour A set of free watercolor effect brushes for Photoshop.

RLM Brush Collection

34rlmbrush A set of brushes for Photoshop, including some nice detailing brushes.

Plant Brushes

35plant A set of 130 ’plant’ brushes for Photoshop.

Angular Material

36angular Angular Material is a set of Material Design components for Angular 2.

svgo

37svgo svgo, or SVG Optimizer, is a handy little nodejs-based tool which strips out all the unnecessary information graphics apps add when exporting to SVG. Currently downloadable in several forms, or available as a web app.

EQCSS

38eqcss EQCSS is a JavaScript plugin which enables the use of CSS @element queries.

Sketch Focus

39focus Sketch Focus is a handy little plugin which allows you to add notes and tasks to your Sketch documents.

Summer Fun Vector Pattern

40summer A fun little pattern using summertime icons.

Brand.ai for Sketch

41brandai Brand.ai’s design asset cloud allows you to share design libraries in Sketch.

Astrum

42astrum Astrum is a lightweight pattern library. It features simple customisation and intelligent feedback.

Fractal

43fractal Fractal lets you build pattern libraries, using your choice of templating language, build tool and organisational model.

ColorCubo

44colorcubo ColorCubo is a very simple to use online color palette manager.

FreeHTML5 Generator

45generator FreeHTML5.co has recently released this online drag and drop website generator based on Bootstrap.

Stella

46stella A polished UI kit designed especially for use in blogs.

Paper Marbling Textures

49marble 6 handy textures for backgrounds.

Paddi MacDonnell

Paddi MacDonnell is a designer and entrepreneur from Northern Ireland, follow her on Twitter.

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