50+ Freebies Every Web Designer/Developer should have
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Everyone loves freebies. That’s why I love about the design community . Web designer, graphic designer, icon designer , web developer and many more professionals shares their wonderful work with us for free!
There are some the freebies that are really essential for me. I downloaded them and put them in a safe folder because I use these resources frequently. These are some of my favorite freebies, whenever I am doing any projects I lean towards these freebies and resources and also, I definitely recommend to friends and acquaintances. In this article I am sharing some of the best freebies on web that I use. Also, I added some useful posts at the end of each section that I thought would be useful.
10 Must Have Fonts
- Soad
- Blazed
- Karabine
- Trashco
- Evanescence
- Birth-of-a-Hero
- Abusive-Pencil
- Sketch-Rockwell
- Loserboi-Grunge
- Jellyka – Estrya’s Handwriting
More Font Resources :
- 50 Incredible Fonts for Professional Web & Print Design
- 40 Super Sleek Fonts for Clean Web Design
- 5 Excellent Free Grunge Fonts
10 Must have Free Photoshop Brush Set
- 45 Splash Photoshop Brushes
- 10 Crack brushes.
- 20 Tissape Tape Brush
- 25 Flourish Brushes
- 16 Stitch Brushes
- Tainted Illusion Brush
- 13 I Love Polaroids Brush
- Vector Style ‘Stalk’ Brushes
- 5 Grunge Wood Brushes
- Grungy Vector Brushes
More Photoshop Brush Resources:
- 50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets You Should Bookmark
- 350+ Brushes, Textures, and Fonts: Massive Hand Drawn Roundup
- 1000+ great Photoshop free brushes
10 Must Have Social Bookmarking Icons
- Free Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers
- Aquaticus Social Icons
- Circle Social Bookmark Icons
- Social icon pack
- Free Vector Social Bookmarking Icons
- Free Grunge Style Social Bookmarking Icons
- Set of social icons no.2
- For the Birds… Social Networking Icons Inspired by Twitter
- Hand Drawn Social Icons
More Icon Resources
- 21 Sets of Free Social Bookmarking Icons for Your Blog
- Download 30 sets of free Social Bookmarking Icons
- Best free twitter icons for your blog
10 Easy, Free and Cool Image Galleries
- Zenphoto Gallery
- Polaroid Gallery
- Smooth Gallery
- CSS Cross Browser Multi-Page Photograph Gallery
- Simple Viewer
- Photo Stack
- CSS Decorative Gallery
- Spacegallery – jQuery plugin
- Slide Gallery
More Image Galleries Resources
- 25+ Free Image Galleries & Slideshows Script Roundup
- 21+ beautiful Javascript and Ajax based solutions to our gallery requirements
- 10 Mootools plugin for showing image gallery
10 Useful Websites to Find Free Scripts/Codes and much more
- Devsnippets
- Hotscripts
- dthmlsite
- Dynamic Drive
- Simplythebest
- dhtmlgoodies
- Codetoad
- Javascript Kit
- Stevesims
- Needscripts
More useful Resources:
- 40+ Useful Cheat Sheets for Designers
- 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
- Free CSS Scripts to Use on Your Website
Reader Suggested Freebies:
Is there a icon pack, tools, a good website that rely on ? Shout it in the comment I will add it in a user suggested section.
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Tagged: CSS, image galleries, Photoshop Brush, scripts, social icons
I disagree with a lot of these being ‘must have’. Although comprhensive, these resources are pretty run of the mill and over used at this point. Thank you though, great direction!
Really like all your fonts and icon. This is a great collection.
this will help me a lotwhile designing a lot contactlenzen sites that we sell but I must say that it looks lik a lot people find this very usefull.
As a graphic designer, you have some nice fonts and icon collections. Can’t wait to use some of them. You also have some nice photo scripts there. Nice to see a collection like this.
This is a very comprehensive resource, and it is going to take me a while to explore all the links off it. Good one, thanks for sharing it with us, and let me be off exploring those links. Cheers for now everybody.
Great selection of Websites, some really nice designs! I’m currently working on a new design. You really helped me out here. thx
Beautiful setof cool resources
wow..thanx for your post!
boleh la saya cuba try nanti…
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nice man!
you have a good info here..thanx for sharing!
you also can check out my blog on what is the latest trend web design in 2009!
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Your site is so cool. I love all the different fonts, and neat inserts. Thanks, you are my number one spot for fonts. Buy MagicJack
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Really usefull links. Nice work.
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Really great post, some really useful things here thanks for posting – love it all!
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Wow, fantastic post! I love freebies :0)
THX for these great links
Maybe you also like to check out these freebies:
http://www.carina-franz.com/freebies.html (illustrations, buttons, icons, …)
Great collection, thanks for compiling them
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These will definitely come in handy. Thanks.
Thanks for the resources. I’ve been a fireworks junkie, but after looking at these brushes and the fonts, I want to get more into photoshop for recreational uses.
bit late to the party
but cool resource list, the birdies look great 
Nice blog for web designer
Absolutely marvelous set of tools. I know how much hardwork required to create such a list. Hats off and thank you.
Wow! This is a precious collection of resources. It’s indeed a useful post. I like the image galleries part. Nice one! Keep it up!
How about code editors? Don’t we need them? thank’s
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I love freebies! Thanks for a great list!
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wow, all these great resources on one page! Thank you so much for this post
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Great round-up, thanks! I’m definitely going to use some of it.
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Regards
Kris
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Thanks a lot for this sum of all these great freebies! Those really help!
Greetings from Germany
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Fabulous collection
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Thank you, this is awesome!
Thanks for the leads… these are some great resources!
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How about code editors? Don’t we need them?
Nice list!
Absolutely great list, Kawsar! Thanks for sharing!
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@Heather Flyte: lolz
Holy crap! My brain isn’t big enough to hold all this in! Nice collection, thanks for this.
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@Gelay: @fr33mumia: Thanks
thanx god i’ve landed on this site.thx for great resources =D
thanks for sharing!
Nice list. I like Zen Photo.
@Ray: Thanks for the suggestion. Link added
Great list.
You have missed this free social media icons set http://www.blogperfume.com/social-media-icons-pack-in-3-sizes-for-download/
You have collected some best unseen stuff for me and thanks for listing my icons collection link .
Thank you for listing your resources. Out of the Flash galleries you listed DfGallery is my favorite since you can have multiple albums in a single interface.
Great resource, thanks for sharing.
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@N_Lite: @Lilly Jork: Thanks guys
Good Freebies!
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Hey thanks for this post, very very useful collection!
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Great collection of goodies!! I found more stuff at:
http://www.photoshopwork.com
Thank you very much!!!!
Huge roundup here. Some great fonts I hadn’t seen before too. Thanks!
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@Samer Kamel: @joyoge designers’ bookmark: Thanks! Hope these are useful to somebody
Great Set of Digital Resources! Thanks for sharing!
very nice resources thank you..
i always find the free icons from http://www.famfamfam.com AMAZING .. i used them more than once and they always look perfect for the designs where u just need to add a tiny icon next to ur header tags to make it stand out better ..