What’s new for designers, September 2016

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September 12, 2016
What’s new for designers, September 2016.

In this month’s edition of what’s new for designers, we’ve included productivity apps, email apps, free icon sets, UI galleries, color tools, CSS frameworks, stock image tools, and more. And as always, we’ve also included some awesome new free fonts! Almost everything on the list this month is free, with a few high-value paid apps and tools also included. They’re sure to be useful to designers, from beginners to experts. If we’ve missed something that you think should have been on the list, let us know in the comments. And if you know of a new app or resource that should be featured next month, tweet it to [@cameron_chapman](http://​twitter​.com/​c​a​m​e​r​o​n​_​c​h​apman) to be considered!

Moo​.do

Moo​.do

is a task manager for Gmail. It interfaces with tasks, email, documents, calendar, projects, and contacts. Moo.do

Diverse UI

Diverse UI

is a collection of free stock photos of people from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds to bring some diversity to your designs. diverse ui

Designer Emojis

Designer Emojis

is a collection of 45 vector emojis you can download for free. They highlight the tricky yet rewarding job of being a designer. designer emojis

Founder Catalog

Founder Catalog

is a collection of what founders of some leading startups are writing about right now. founder catalog

Stocky

Stocky

is a source of free stock photos, videos, graphics, and music that you can use for both personal and commercial projects. stocky

Startup Pitch Decks

Startup Pitch Decks

is a collection of real world fundraising decks from startups like Airbnb, Buffer, YouTube, Mattermark, Buzzfeed, Crew, and more. startup pitch decks

Adioma

Adioma

is an easy to use infographic generator that lets you create things like timelines, organizational charts, and more. adioma

UIDB

UIDB

is a search engine that lets you find live examples of any UI. You can browse all the examples or check out the most popular tags. uidb

Grid.Guide

Grid.Guide

is a tool to help you create pixel perfect grids in your designs. Just enter your requirements and it will show you all the whole pixel combinations you can use. grid.guide

Sunsama

Sunsama

is a calendar built just for teams. It helps you run focused meetings, prioritize tasks, and more. sunsama

Kin

Kin

is a better calendar experience. It connects with Google, Office365, Trello, Facebook, GitHub, Meetup, Eventbrite, and Wunderlist. kin

Timely

Timely

is an automatic time tracking app for freelancers and teams. It works in the background, letting you focus on your work. timely

Duet

Duet

is a self-hosted alternative to Trello. It’s completely brandable, so you can make it match your business, and it has a one-time fee rather than a recurring monthly charge. duet

Checkout Pages

Checkout Pages

is a curated directory of the best checkout pages, with additional links to directories of pricing pages, product pages, and store pages. checkout pages

Hud

Hud

is a tool for managing and cataloging your UI patterns so you can share them with your team. hud

Four Hour Book Club

If you’re an avid listener of the Tim Ferriss Show, then you’ll want to check out the Four Hour Book Club, which catalogs all of the books mentioned on the show. four hour book club

Napkin

Napkin

is a startup idea app for iOS. It lets you capture all of your business ideas in a simple, clean design. napkin

Apply Pixels

Apply Pixels

is a set of industry standard design tools and UI templates for supercharging your design workflow. apply pixels

UI Temple

UI Temple

is a curated collection of website designs to inspire you. Sort by industry, page type, color, and more. ui temple

Kelir

Kelir

is a free color picker app for Mac. It’s also got tools for creating palettes and gradients. kelir

Wing

Wing

is a minimal CSS framework. It’s perfect for smaller projects that don’t need all the features of a framework like Bootstrap or Foundation. wing

Word Geeks

Ever need on-demand content written for your desing projects? Check out Word Geeks, an exclusive network of on-demand writers. word geeks

Stockmagic

Stockmagic

is a tiny app that lives in your menu bar that lets you find the best images on 25 of the biggest free stock photo services. stockmagic

Rush

Rush

is a communications app that lets you easily switch between mail and chat. It also includes a group calendar and other tools for teams. rush

Polymail

Polymail

is a powerful email productivity app that’s now available for iOS. It includes tons of advanced tools for contact management, too. polymail

Open Icons

Open Icons

are a set of 119 open source line drawing icons that include everything from sharing and downloading to bananas and ghosts. open icons

Land

Land

is a free ornate display font inspired by whimsical hand-lettering. land

Banaue

Banaue

is a free brush font with 104 characters, including all the basic glyphs you could want. banaue

NS-James

NS-James

is a free geometric sans serif typeface that’s versatile and highly legible. The light” version is free. ns-james

Luciano

Luciano

is a fancy handwritten font with upper and lowercase glyphs. luciano

Sadistic

Sadistic

is a decorative display font perfect for horror projects. It comes with a complete set of Latin and Greek characters. sadistic

Free Brush

Free Brush

is a brush style font created for the fps​.hu website and downloadable for free. free brush

Hydrant

Hydrant

is an inline shadow grunge font. It has a vintage style that’s perfect for branding and headers. hydrant

Rocket Shadow

Rocket Shadow

is a free vintage-style font that’s great for retro headers and branding. rocket

North

North

is a simple, geometric sans-serif typeface that’s great for things like logos and posters. north

Noelan

Noelan

is a modern calligraphy typeface that includes swashes for automatically connected initials and terminals. noelan

Cameron Chapman

Cameron Chapman is a freelance writer and designer from New England. You can visit her site or follow her on Twitter.

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