Typically, the design process begins with a brainstorming session for samples, ideas, and color schemes. The process, as creative as it might be, can also be tediously repetitious. When working on projects that require producing design mock-ups and then repeating the same design stages over and over, web designers have a number of tools at their disposal.
Here is a list of free marketing design tools you can use in building your own website:
Layout
- Vectr – a free graphics software used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively. It’s a simple yet powerful web and desktop cross-platform tool to bring your designs into reality.
- Canva – a graphic design platform, used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content.
- Pablo – is the simplest way to create beautiful images for every social network, created by the team at Buffer, a multi-product platform for social media management.
Pictures
- Unsplash – Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.
- Pexels – a provider of stock photography and stock footage. It was founded in Germany in 2014 and maintains a library with over 3.2 million free stock photos and videos.
- Polar – makes advanced free online photo editor, also available for iOS, Android, Mac and Windows with professional photo editing tools.
Icons
- iconmnstr – free, monstrously big and continuously growing source of simple icons
- Flaticon – Download Free Vector Icons and Stickers for your projects. Resources made by and for designers. PNG, SVG, EPS, PSD and CSS formats.
- Dryicons – Over 5000 high-quality web and vector icons in 77 Icon Sets, and more than 1700 vector graphics for designers and developers.
Fonts
- Dafont – Archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by alphabetical listing, by style, by author or by popularity.
- Behance – is a social media platform owned by Adobe “to showcase and discover creative work”.
- FontSpace – is a designer-centered font website that has quick customizable previews and hassle-free downloads. Every font is added and categorized by a real person.
Illustrations
- Freepik – Browse and discover millions of vectors, photos, PSD files, icons, and free presentations templates.
- Pixabay – is a vibrant community of creatives, sharing copyright free images, videos and music.
- Vexels – Graphic Resources for Commercial & Merch Use, vector image illustrations, logos, design templates & more.
Color schemes
- Coolors – Generate or browse beautiful color combinations for your designs.
- Paletton – is not just a professional’s tool, it was designed to help all sorts of color projects, from professional work to your kids school projects.
- Khroma – uses AI to learn which colors you like and creates limitless palettes for you to discover, search, and save.