50+ Freebies Every Web Designer/Developer should have

fav_freebiesEveryone 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

  1. Soad
    soda
  2. Blazed
    blazed
  3. Karabine
    karabine
  4. Trashco trashco
  5. Evanescenceevanescence
  6. Birth-of-a-Hero
    birth_of_a_hero
  7. Abusive-Pencil
    abusive_pencil
  8. Sketch-Rockwell
    sketch_rockwell
  9. Loserboi-Grunge
    loserboi_grunge
  10. Jellyka – Estrya’s Handwritingjellyka_estryas_handwriting

More Font Resources :

  1. 50 Incredible Fonts for Professional Web & Print Design
  2. 40 Super Sleek Fonts for Clean Web Design
  3. 5 Excellent Free Grunge Fonts

10 Must have Free Photoshop Brush Set

  1. 45 Splash Photoshop Brushes
    splatter
  2. 10 Crack brushes.
    cracks_brushes_by_latebraking
  3. 20 Tissape Tape Brush
    tizzape_tape_brushes_by_keepwaiting
  4. 25 Flourish Brushes
    flourish_brushes_by_seleneheart
  5. 16 Stitch Brushes
    stitch_by_boyingopaw
  6. Tainted Illusion Brush
    photoshop_brushes___part_3_by_tainted_illusions
  7. 13 I Love Polaroids Brush
    i_love_polaroids
  8. Vector Style ‘Stalk’ Brushes
    vector
  9. 5 Grunge Wood Brushes
    grunge
  10. Grungy Vector Brushes
    grungy_vector

More Photoshop Brush Resources:

  1. 50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets You Should Bookmark
  2. 350+ Brushes, Textures, and Fonts: Massive Hand Drawn Roundup
  3. 1000+ great Photoshop free brushes

10 Must Have Social Bookmarking Icons

  1. Free Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers
    doodle-icons
  2. Aquaticus Social Icons
    aquaticussocialicons
  3. Circle Social Bookmark Icons
    circle_social
  4. Social icon pack
    social_icon_pack_by_cheth
  5. Free Vector Social Bookmarking Icons
    socialbookmarkingicons
  6. Free Grunge Style Social Bookmarking Icons
    grunge_design
  7. Social Bookmark Sketchy Icons
    sctechy_icons

  8. Set of social icons no.2
    set_of_social_icons_no_2_by_tydlinka
  9. For the Birds… Social Networking Icons Inspired by Twitter
    allbirds
  10. Hand Drawn Social Icons
    social_icons_hand_drawned_by_theg_force

More Icon Resources

  1. 21 Sets of Free Social Bookmarking Icons for Your Blog
  2. Download 30 sets of free Social Bookmarking Icons
  3. Best free twitter icons for your blog

10 Easy, Free and Cool Image Galleries

  1. Zenphoto Gallery
    zen_photo
  2. Polaroid Gallery
    polaroid
  3. Smooth Gallery
    smooth-gallery
  4. CSS Cross Browser Multi-Page Photograph Gallery
    multi_page_-photograph_gallery
  5. Simple Viewer
    simpleviewer
  6. Photo Stack
    photo-stack
  7. CSS Decorative Gallery
    css_decorative
  8. Spacegallery – jQuery plugin
    special_gallery
  9. Slide Gallery
    slide_gallery
  10. dfGallery 2.0 – Free Flash Gallery
    dfgallery

More Image Galleries Resources

  1. 25+ Free Image Galleries & Slideshows Script Roundup
  2. 21+ beautiful Javascript and Ajax based solutions to our gallery requirements
  3. 10 Mootools plugin for showing image gallery

10 Useful Websites to Find Free Scripts/Codes and much more

  1. Devsnippets
  2. Hotscripts
  3. dthmlsite
  4. Dynamic Drive
  5. Simplythebest
  6. dhtmlgoodies
  7. Codetoad
  8. Javascript Kit
  9. Stevesims
  10. Needscripts

More useful Resources:

  1. 40+ Useful Cheat Sheets for Designers
  2. 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  3. Free CSS Scripts to Use on Your Website

Reader Suggested Freebies:

  1. Social Media Icons Pack in 3 Sizes

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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91 Responses to “50+ Freebies Every Web Designer/Developer should have”

  1. Lorena says:

    Okay. I gotta say this is the best roundup of good stuff I’ve ever seen; and, believe me, I’ve seen some good stuff! Thanks VERY much.

  2. Betty says:

    This stuff is awesome!
    Thanks for posting it

  3. Nice site

    Thank you

    Samantha x

  4. 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!

  5. HHO says:

    Really like all your fonts and icon. This is a great collection.

  6. 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.

  7. Potty Patch says:

    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.

  8. 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.

  9. Great selection of Websites, some really nice designs! I’m currently working on a new design. You really helped me out here. thx

  10. Beautiful setof cool resources

  11. wow..thanx for your post!
    boleh la saya cuba try nanti… ;)
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  12. udang says:

    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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  13. MagicJack says:

    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
    MagicJack´s last blog : MagicJack Is All You Need

  14. Really usefull links. Nice work.

  15. love says:

    bless this post with love,peace and respect.

    just let love be

  16. dan says:

    Really great post, some really useful things here thanks for posting – love it all!
    dan´s last blog : Videos in magazines = Waste of time.

  17. Wow, fantastic post! I love freebies :0)

  18. Carina says:

    THX for these great links :) Maybe you also like to check out these freebies:
    http://www.carina-franz.com/freebies.html (illustrations, buttons, icons, …)

  19. Phaoloo says:

    Great collection, thanks for compiling them
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  20. travelerscp says:

    These will definitely come in handy. Thanks.

  21. Big Robby says:

    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.

  22. Kev Jaques says:

    bit late to the party ;) but cool resource list, the birdies look great :)

  23. artily says:

    Nice blog for web designer

  24. Absolutely marvelous set of tools. I know how much hardwork required to create such a list. Hats off and thank you.

  25. vishal says:

    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!

  26. uki says:

    How about code editors? Don’t we need them? thank’s

    uki’s last blog post..lomba blog batam

  27. Kelly says:

    I love freebies! Thanks for a great list!

    Kelly’s last blog post..Internet Explorer 8 Released Today: First Impressions

  28. sir jorge says:

    wow, all these great resources on one page! Thank you so much for this post

    sir jorge’s last blog post..The Magic Blade Review

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