50 fresh resources for designers, September 2016
Born
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
A fun font that calls to mind classic cartoons, PlayerTip is great for kids.Courage
Courage is a display font inspired by Muhammed Ali, and available in 2 weights.Gilroy
Gilroy is a modern sans serif with a geometric touch. Get two weights for free.Olesia
Olesia is a handwritten font with a feminine feel, for adding some character to your designs.kraM
KraM is a handlettered brush font that supports latin and cyrillic alphabets.Anana
Anana is a free brush font with some freeform ligatures.Kano
Kano is a geometric typeface, good for display with it’s sharp edges and interesting angles.Hammock
Hammock is a handmade font with a fresh, outdoors feel.Skywalker Shadow Grunge
Skywalker Shadow Grunge is an art deco style font, available as a free taster of the Skywalker font.Bionic Regular
Bionic Regular is a free to use version of Bionic, a futuristic font.Maddox Gothic
Maddox Gothic is a free display font.Relate
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
Based is a feed UI kit for sketch, with an easily customized minimal design style.Chat UI Kit
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
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
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
Free UI kit for a food ordering service app.Ease UI Sample
A small taster of a modern, stylish UI kit.Carioca Sample
A sample of 15 screens from the Carioca mobile UI kit.Sign In / Sign Up UI Kit
Some stylish screens for a sign in/register page.Luxe
Luxe is a Bootstrap website template aimed at the hotel industry.Twist
Twist is a one page website template built using Bootstrap.Zerif Lite
Recently updated, Zerif Lite is a fully responsive, one page WordPress theme.Shop Isle
Recently updated, this fully responsive ecommerce WordPress theme has a clean look and is WooCommerce ready.Components
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
Blaze is a fully responsive, unopinionated modular CSS framework with built in components.Minimal Icon Pack
A set of 1800 minimal icons featuring two styles: sharp, and rounded.Bytesize
Style controlled SVG icon set.Animal Icons
A collection of 71 cute little critters, available in various formats.Crafticons
Crafticons is a set of 40 free outline icons.Icons for Olympics
A small set of free icons in honour of Rio 2016 Part 1 (Olympics).Wood Patterns
Set of 10 seamless wood patterns to use as backgrounds for a variety of projects.Cloud Photos
Set of 10 cloud images which can be used as backgrounds in a variety of print or screen projects.Abstract Photos
A set of 20 abstract photos for use as backgrounds. Each photo comes in two different versions.Watercolor Brushes
A set of free watercolor effect brushes for Photoshop.RLM Brush Collection
A set of brushes for Photoshop, including some nice detailing brushes.Plant Brushes
A set of 130 ’plant’ brushes for Photoshop.Angular Material
Angular Material is a set of Material Design components for Angular 2.svgo
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
EQCSS is a JavaScript plugin which enables the use of CSS @element queries.Sketch Focus
Sketch Focus is a handy little plugin which allows you to add notes and tasks to your Sketch documents.Summer Fun Vector Pattern
A fun little pattern using summertime icons.Brand.ai for Sketch
Brand.ai’s design asset cloud allows you to share design libraries in Sketch.Astrum
Astrum is a lightweight pattern library. It features simple customisation and intelligent feedback.Fractal
Fractal lets you build pattern libraries, using your choice of templating language, build tool and organisational model.ColorCubo
ColorCubo is a very simple to use online color palette manager.FreeHTML5 Generator
FreeHTML5.co has recently released this online drag and drop website generator based on Bootstrap.Stella
A polished UI kit designed especially for use in blogs.Paper Marbling Textures
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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