Icons, Photos & Illustration — Useful Sites

Awesome GIF

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A list of tools and resources for the GIF animated-image format. Unlike general image lists, it gathers only tools for creating, optimising and playing GIFs.

https://github.com/davisonio/awesome-gif

Awesome Icons

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A list of downloadable SVG/PNG/font icon projects. Unlike a single icon set, it lays dozens of sets side by side so you can pick by style and licence.

https://github.com/notlmn/awesome-icons

Awesome Pixel Art

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A list of tools and resources for pixel-level digital art. Unlike general drawing lists, it focuses on pixel editors, palettes and pixel-art tutorials.

https://github.com/Siilwyn/awesome-pixel-art

Feather Icons

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A simple, consistent open-source icon set at a single stroke weight. Unlike large libraries it offers a minimal visual language and small file size.

https://feathericons.com/

Flaticon

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A vast icon bank offering millions of vector icons in various styles.

https://www.flaticon.com

Font Awesome

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

The most widely used icon and logo library on the web. Unlike collecting SVGs one by one you add icons as a font/CSS class in a single line.

https://fontawesome.com/

Gratisography

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

Unusual and creative free stock photos. Unlike archives such as Unsplash, its quirky, humorous shots steer clear of the clichéd stock-photo look.

https://gratisography.com/

Haikei

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A browser tool that generates blobs, waves and layered SVG background shapes. Unlike drawing SVG by hand, you generate random but controllable shapes in a click and export them.

https://haikei.app

Hero Patterns

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

Repeatable SVG background patterns whose colour and opacity you tune, then copy the CSS. Unlike image-file backgrounds they are tiny and recolourable in CSS.

https://heropatterns.com

Humaaans

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A library of human illustrations whose parts you can mix and pose. Unlike ready illustrations you assemble the figure limb by limb into an original scene.

https://www.humaaans.com/

IcoFont

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

2,100+ free icons to spice up designs, also usable as an icon font. Unlike downloading SVGs one by one, you drop an icon into a page with a CSS class.

https://icofont.com/

Iconify

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A library unifying 100+ icon sets under one API/component. Unlike installing each set separately you pull and mix them all from one interface.

https://iconify.design/

iconmonstr

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A site with 316 free icon collections, all by a single designer. Unlike marketplaces such as Iconfinder it keeps one consistent style, so icons from different collections still sit well together.

https://iconmonstr.com/

Icons8

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A broad asset source offering icons, illustrations, photos and music in various styles. Unlike single-type sites it gives many types in one consistent visual language.

https://icons8.com/

Iconscout

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A large collection bringing together icons, illustrations and 3D assets. Unlike sites offering a single asset type, it covers all of them under one search and licence; much of it is paid.

https://iconscout.com/

IRA Design

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

Free illustrations with editable colours and objects. Unlike ready-made stock illustrations, you choose the gradient and objects to compose your own scene.

https://iradesign.io/illustrations

LineIcons

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A line-style icon set of 31,000+ icons, free and premium together; the full set needs a subscription. Unlike mixed-style sets, every icon shares the same stroke weight and style.

https://lineicons.com/

Lorem Picsum

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A service returning placeholder photos at any size (the lorem ipsum of images). Unlike fixed placeholders you pass a size in the URL and get a real photo.

https://picsum.photos/

ManyPixels Gallery

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A free illustration gallery with editable colour. Similar to unDraw; it offers a larger, topic-based collection and multiple formats.

https://www.manypixels.co/gallery

Nappy

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

High-quality free photos of Black and Brown people. Unlike general stock archives it focuses on representation, surfacing images those archives lack.

https://www.nappy.co

Open Peeps

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

Pablo Stanley’s hand-drawn, CC0 illustration library. Unlike ready-made illustrations, you build characters from parts — face, hair, outfit, pose.

https://www.openpeeps.com

OpenMoji

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

An openly licensed emoji library in one design language. Unlike platform emojis it gives editable SVG emojis that look the same everywhere.

https://openmoji.org/

Pexels

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A stock source offering free photos and videos together. Unlike photo-only sites it also gives royalty-free video in the same interface.

https://www.pexels.com/

Picjumbo

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

An archive of free and premium stock photos started by photographer Viktor Hanáček. Unlike Unsplash, one photographer’s style dominates, and there are paid premium packs too.

https://picjumbo.com/

Pixabay

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A royalty-free bank gathering photos, illustrations, vectors and video in one place. Unlike single-type sites it returns multi-format media in one search.

https://pixabay.com/

Public Domain Archive

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

An archive of public-domain (copyright-free) stock photos. Unlike licensed free archives, the images are in the public domain: no attribution or licence terms apply.

https://www.publicdomainarchive.com/

Remix Icon

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A consistent open-source icon set coming in both line and solid styles. Unlike mixed sets every icon exists in both styles — consistency across a UI.

https://remixicon.com/

StockSnap

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

Free stock photos with no attribution required, released under CC0. Unlike Unsplash’s own licence, CC0 leaves every use open, redistribution included.

https://stocksnap.io/

Storyset

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

Freepik’s set of free, editable illustrations (Storyset); you can recolour them and download them animated. Unlike Freepik’s main archive, every image is customisable in the browser; free use requires attribution.

https://storyset.com/

unDraw

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

An openly licensed illustration set whose colour you can change to your brand. Unlike fixed illustrations you switch the accent colour in one place and get a consistent set.

https://undraw.co/illustrations

Unsplash

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

One of the largest free sources of high-resolution, royalty-free photographs. Unlike paid banks it is open to commercial use with no attribution required.

https://unsplash.com/

Visual Hunt

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A service searching millions of free stock images in one place, with search by colour. Unlike a single archive it searches several sources together; the trade-off is that the licence varies from image to image.

https://visualhunt.com/

3Dassets.one

2026-08-21T20:53:20Z

A search engine that consolidates several 3D asset sites into one query, filterable by licence and price. Against visiting each site, the licence filter is the point — you can isolate what is actually usable commercially.

https://3dassets.one/

ambientCG

2026-08-21T20:53:20Z

An archive of CC0-licensed PBR textures and materials, shipping colour, normal, roughness and displacement maps together. Unlike most texture sites the licence really is CC0 — no attribution needed, commercial use fine.

https://cc0textures.com/

Lucide

2026-08-21T20:53:20Z

An icon library of over 1,600 SVG icons with ready packages for React, Vue and Svelte. It is the community fork of Feather, and the difference is that it kept growing while Feather went quiet — and that it tree-shakes down to the icons you import.

https://lucide.dev/

The Noun Project

2026-08-21T20:53:20Z

A searchable archive of millions of icons and symbols, with several visual takes on each concept. Unlike an icon library it is not a consistent set but a dictionary of concepts — the place where an icon for one very specific object actually exists.

https://thenounproject.com/

Devicons

2026-08-17T20:53:20Z

An icon font of programming language and tool logos, used as technology badges in CVs, slides and READMEs. Unlike general icon sets, it focuses solely on technology logos.

https://vorillaz.github.io/devicons/#/main

LottieFiles

2026-08-17T20:53:20Z

An archive and editor of lightweight JSON-based vector animations. Compared with GIF, it gives scalable, code-controllable motion at a fraction of the file size.

https://lottiefiles.com/

Same Energy

2025-03-01T00:01:09Z

Searches by visual similarity rather than keywords — you hand it an image and ask for more like it. Discovery through aesthetics, with no need to find the word first.

https://same.energy/