2021 is here, and we are about to usher in a year full of infinite challenges. We have compiled all the design and creation resource lazy packs for 2020. There are 60 in total, all of which are full of various design tools and fresh materials that can help you increase your productivity! Please enjoy it slowly. If you think it is good, please share it with your friends.
【Design materials】Bara Art
The website created by the Czech designer Bara Cross allows everyone to download and use the photos he took for free. Therefore, the materials are very unique and can be used for personal or commercial purposes. There is no need to indicate the source. Registration is not required and can be downloaded and used directly.
【Design materials】お肉のフリー Material サイト oniku images
Oniku Images, Kobayashi City, Japan, has launched a free photo gallery of Kuroge Wagyu beef, hoping to promote local agricultural specialties with a free photo gallery. It can be used for personal or commercial purposes without indicating the source, but remember to read the terms of use in detail when using it. There are two resolutions for web use and printing, mainly in JPG format. Friends who need beef materials can quickly download it.
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【Online Tools】Multi.link
Help you create a personal business card web page. The interface is very simple and easy to use. You can add images, text, links, videos, and even advertisements and GA analysis codes by yourself. You can customize the color or style. You can use it after registering. There are currently no ads and the screen is quite simple.
【Online Tools】Make a smooth shadow
CSS3 online shadow smoothing generator can produce smooth shadows by visually dragging values and can set very detailed parameters. The range, size and shade of the shadow can be easily set, and CSS3 code can be directly generated.
【Online Tools】Onlineocr
Free online OCR service, simply put, automatically converts the text on the image into editable plain text. This online tool supports 46 languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The supported file formats for uploading include PDF and general image files such as JPG, BMP, TIFF, and GIF.
【Online Tools】Sucuri SiteCheck
Scan the website for malicious programs and check whether it has been blacklisted by online anti-virus software. It will also display the website’s risk assessment and provide improvement suggestions, as well as display the website’s IP address, CMS, CDN and other information.
【Online Tools】Firefox Send
Free file download space. A free account can upload a single file of 1.5GB. After registering as a member for free, it will become a single file of 2.5GB. You can set a download password, a limit on the number of downloads, and the function of destroying files after a few days. Chinese teaching
【Tool software】EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard
If a design file is accidentally deleted, it will make you cry. This free data rescue software can restore accidentally deleted or formatted data. The free version can only restore some files. After paying, you can unlock and restore more files. If the lost data is very important, it is a very cost-effective thing to pay a small fee to recover it.
【Online Tools】Gantt.io
A free online Gantt chart generator. The Gantt chart is a bar chart tool used to display projects and progress. Managers can use the Gantt chart to monitor the progress of the current tasks of the project and watch the time progress of other projects to quickly grasp the progress. Basically, a free account is enough, while a paid account can have “more styles to design.”
【Design materials】photostockeditor
Design materials are updated every week and can be downloaded without registration for personal and commercial use.
【Online Tools】Palettable
This is an online color matching tool that first selects the main color through an interactive method, and then randomly displays the colors, which have been changed according to preferences. These random combinations are produced by incorporating the experience of millions of designers. Finally, you can get five well-matched color combinations, and you can export these colors to PNG images with color codes or fixed URLs. Chinese teaching
【Reward Design】GameSnacks
Sometimes playing games is a good way to relieve stress, but spending money on games only to play them a few times, and it also takes up mobile phone capacity is quite wasteful. Now Google’s internal incubator Area 120 has a new project, GameSnacks, a game platform designed with HTML 5 architecture. They are all free and can be played easily even on a lightweight mobile phone or laptop. As long as the memory is 1GB and the Internet speed is 1Mbps On your device, you can open the game without downloading or waiting for a few seconds, so you can easily enjoy the game.
【Design materials】Old Book Illustrations
This website collects many beautiful illustrations from ancient books. These beautiful illustrations are reorganized, classified and indexed, and are freely available for everyone to search and use. You can download them for free without registering. Under each illustration, you can see the source and related information of the image. Almost all the images inside are licensed under CC0 and can be used for commercial purposes without attribution of the source.
【Free font】OPPO Sans
OPPO is a well-known mobile phone manufacturer. They share a font called “OPPO Sans” with everyone for free. It can be used for commercial purposes, but you cannot claim to have made it yourself. The Chinese part of this font is handled by Hanyi Fonts, and the English part is designed by the American Pentagram company. Download tutorial
【Reward Design】The Apple Archive
Many design workers use Mac computers and must have a strong fascination and interest in the Apple brand. This website is an unofficial Apple chronicle. It records what happened to Apple in each period since 1970, and of course also introduces product launches.
【Design materials】Gradientify
A free SVG icon website with customizable gradient colors, providing more than 500 exquisite and lovely icons. In addition to providing hundreds of recommended gradient colors, you can also customize your own colors. You can download them all with one click. There are two file formats, PNG and SVG. For personal use, you need to indicate the source. If you want to use it for commercial purposes, you need to refer to its payment method.
【Tool software】MediBang Inc.
Free and open source illustration software. Friends who like to draw comics will use it as a free comic illustration drawing software. There are more than 50 kinds of brushes to choose from, including pens, drawing pens, and watercolor pens. Each brush can be customized and has a layer function to quickly create comic panels and page management. In addition, it has cloud file transfer, synchronization settings, and multi-person collaboration.
【Online Tools】Zoom
Because of the pneumonia epidemic, many companies have begun to work remotely. Zoom is an online tool for remote multi-person meetings. A free account can hold an online video conference with 100 people. The best thing about it is that each meeting with a free account can only be used for 40 minutes, which can effectively control the meeting time and make the meeting more streamlined. This can be used as a paid function (by mistake)
【Design materials】65 rust materials
Jiejie has helped you organize a batch of rust materials, which are collected from major free material websites. They can all be used for commercial purposes. There are 65 pictures in total. If they are all downloaded, the total file size will be about 280MB.
【Audio material】Unminus
Free mp3 music material downloads, which can be used for personal or commercial use. There are simple style classifications and can be played online for trial listening. You can directly download MP3 files without registration. Oh, by the way, this service is also produced by the well-known free photo website Unsplash.
【Design materials】DesignersPics
A picture material website founded by photographer Jeshu John. The pictures are taken personally. Each picture is of high-resolution quality. There are not many pictures on the site at present, but judging from the picture classification, they are all very close to our lives. The pictures can be used for personal or commercial purposes and can be downloaded for free.
【Online Tools】Kidpofy
This website can easily and quickly create your own handwritten English fonts. Just follow the prompts to write each English letter and number, and then you can transfer the font file. You only need a device with a browser to use it. In other words, in addition to writing directly with a mouse on the computer, you can also use a touch pen to write on mobile phones and tablets to create your own unique fonts. Upload and share it to be passed on forever.
【Online Tools】Online Screen Recorder
Free online screen recording tool. No need to download or install plug-ins. You can directly record the entire screen, application, or browser screen. You can also choose the computer’s audio input or pick up the sound from the microphone.
【Design materials】Gradient Radial Generator
I would like to introduce to you an online tool called the radial material generator (take something out of your belly pocket). It is this “radiation material generator” (please dubbing). The color, length, and density can be customized at will. The larger your computer screen, the larger the downloaded image file will be. Chinese teaching
【Free font】Neihai font
Based on the Seto font, most of the missing characters are filled in. This free font is called “Naikai Font” and has a total of 4808 commonly used characters. It can be used for personal and commercial purposes. In addition, when the font list of the software is displayed, the Utsukai font will not be displayed first, but will be displayed in English NaikaiFont.
【Design materials】HANDZ
It provides different skin colors, different sleeves and different 3D gesture pictures. Gestures such as like, handshake, OK or pointing will have different interpretations according to the different situations. Users can match more than 300 combinations by themselves. In addition to providing PNG image files, it also provides .blend original image files that can be modified and combined by themselves. It is free for personal and commercial use. When downloading, fill in the amount as “0”, and then enter a set of emails That’s it (it doesn’t matter if you don’t need to fill in the actual email address, because it will jump to the download page after filling in)
【Design materials】UI Design Daily
The provided free UI design layout original files include: Sketch, Adobe
【Software Teaching】Tool-free SVG file to PNG tutorial
This is a little trick for converting image files. SVG vector files are a relatively new file format in recent years. They are small in size and will not blur when zoomed out on a web page. It is a format favored by many web designers. I would like to share a method to convert SVG into a normal image file without installing drawing software.
【Design materials】National Library of Public Information Digital Collection Service
This website has 20 types of newspapers from different Taiwanese newspapers and millions of news materials, which can be browsed online or downloaded in .TIF image file format. In addition, you can search for specific topics through advanced searches. Query items include Japanese books, old newspapers, old photos, ancient documents, etc… Collection posters and other items
【Design materials】Fluent Style Icons — Icons8
This is a new free icon set launched by Icons8. There are 965 free icons in total. The style and color are relatively bright. They can be downloaded for free into PNG format images in two sizes: 48px and 96px. They can be used for free, but the source must be indicated.
【Web Design】Tiiny.host
This online tool can temporarily place a pure HTML website. You only need to fill in the subnet domain name, and package and compress the HTML website and images into a ZIP file for upload. You can get a temporary display URL, which can only be saved for 24 hours. In addition, you can pay 8 US dollars per month, there will be no time limit, and there will be password protection, binding URL and other functions. But to be honest, it is more practical to rent a virtual host directly.
【Online Tools】Speak Reader
It is a free online text-to-speech tool. In addition to pasting text directly, it can also capture all the text in the webpage and convert the content into speech. In addition, it can also upload e-books and turn them into audio books. It supports many languages, such as Cantonese, Mandarin, English, Japanese, French, etc… You can also choose male or female pronunciation, and adjust the speed of pronunciation.
【Design knowledge】webP image file introduction
The webP image file format is almost already supported by browsers on the market. As long as the browser is regularly updated, this special file format can be used. Its advantages include supporting transparent formats and the file size is also relatively good. This article has a detailed introduction.
【Design materials】Free illustration
Integrate common free illustration materials on the Internet and find the material library you want through filtering. However, it should be noted that the authorization method of each material is different. When downloading, please pay attention to whether it can be used for personal or commercial purposes.
【Online Tools】Reurl.cc
This is a free URL shortening tool that can be used without registration. Register as a member for free. You can view hidden traffic statistics functions, customize UTM to track marketing data, and even generate QR Code. There is also a browser plug-in that can generate short URLs with one click.
【Design materials】Pixelmob
There are more and more free photo material websites. This website includes four free photo websites at once: Pixabay, Unsplash, Pexels, and Stockvault. You can search for pictures from the four photo photo websites at once, making it more efficient to find materials. Moreover, the materials are directly linked to the original photo website for download, and the copyright source can be found with evidence.
【Course Teaching】Hahow good school
Designers will take on some design projects after get off work, but it is difficult to break out of life circles in different fields. With the popularity of online courses, learning one more skill can help you experience a different collaborative life. In addition to increasing life experience and accumulating sources of inspiration, it can also increase additional income, “Hahow “Good School” has a large number of courses including programming language, web design, hand-drawing, foreign languages, handicrafts, financial investment, humanistic taste and other knowledge courses. In addition, you can also start courses on this platform to increase passive income. Finally, after registering through the recommended link, you can receive a 300 yuan course credit provided by the manufacturer.
【Reward Design】Taipei card
Creators draw inspiration from life all the time, and visiting exhibitions is a very good way. The government provides the “Taipei Card”, which has also been released in version 3.0. With this card, you can enjoy many benefits, such as 10% off tickets for the “Contemporary Art Museum”, discounts on movie tickets for “Lightspot Taipei Cinema”, etc… The coolest thing is that the card is stored digitally on your phone. The important thing is that even people who do not live in Taipei City can apply for it for free.Register to teach
【Online Tools】Word Art
An online generator of tag clouds, you can upload fonts for editing. The text cloud patterns can include various themes such as animals, heart shapes, nature, etc. You can also upload your own logo pattern. There are many angles to choose from in text arrangement, and there are many details that can be fine-tuned. After completion, you can directly download it as a PNG or JPEG image file. If you pay, you can download high-resolution or SVG, PDF and other formats.
【Online Tools】Imgkoa
This tool can help you search for Instagram users and quickly download their photos or videos to your computer. There is no need to install any software. You can directly search for users by ID or name, and then select their videos or photos to download. It also provides a very convenient “batch download” function, and the user interface is also very simple. It is a good tool that must be bookmarked.
【Online Tools】AudioMass
This is a free online tool for editing sound files. It provides functions such as copying, cutting and pasting audio tracks, muting sections, increasing and decreasing, delay, fast forward, reverse, compression and pitch adjustment. The completed sound file can be saved in MP3 or WAV file format. For users who are just getting started, the operation interface is quite simple and easy to use.
【Design materials】Icons8 Animated icons 2.0
Provides dynamic illustration materials in JSON, GIF and After Effects formats for users to download for free. This website comes from the Icons8 website, and the icons marked Free can be used for personal and commercial purposes.
【Design materials】スタジオジブリ
Starting from September 18, Studio Ghibli announced that it will provide scene pictures of all its works for everyone to use freely for reasonable purposes. It has provided 8 cartoon works including “The Hidden Girl”, “Ponyo on the Cliff”, “The Wind Rises”, “The Borrower Girl Ariti”, “From the Red Flower Saka”, “Earthsea Wars”, “The Tale of Princess Kaguya”, and “Marnie in the Memory”, with a total of 400 stills.
【Online Tools】Diffchecker
This online tool can compare the differences between two pieces of text, images, PDFs and even files in folders. It will use different colors to help you mark the differences between the two sides. In addition, you can also download a trial version of the software, which can be used for free for one month. It can also identify the differences between the two sides of the text normally even without an Internet connection.
【Online Tools】Dubox
It can be regarded as the overseas version of Baidu Netdisk. This platform provides 1TB of file space for free, and you can set the validity period of file storage and set the extraction code. The apps for iOS and Android are quite fast, but they are not available in China.
【Online Tools】PONPAI.tw Taiwan Studio Information Station
This website collects photo studios from all over northern, central and southern Taiwan. Through the filtering function, you can quickly find a photo studio rental that meets your budget. You can even filter out whether the venue provides lamps, background paper, tripods, etc. In addition, you can also sort and select according to the style of the studio scene, which is suitable for outdoor photos or image photos.
【Design materials】Life of Pix
Provides free high-quality photos with CC0 copyright-free license (declaration of public domain contribution). The photos are updated every week, and each photo will be marked with the photographer’s name, photo title, shooting date, label, color and other related information.
【Online Tools】Screen Buyer’s Guide
Designers have very high requirements for color, so among the various screen models, you can choose a screen that suits you. This website can quickly filter the screens on the market according to the conditions you set, such as screen size, resolution, color gamut, curved surface, etc… and even the price.
【Audio and video material】FreeSFX
This website provides a large number of sound effects, with a total of more than 500,000 sound effects. It can be used for free in any commercial or non-commercial application, including broadcast, video or audio-visual products. Only when using it, you must indicate the source and link back to the original website. You can download it after registration.
【Design materials】hankodeasobu
This website provides Japanese-style and nostalgic seal image files, all of which are free to download and can be used commercially. Although it is a Japanese website, the categories are all in English. You only need to select the image file you want, right-click the mouse to save the image file, and even if the download is completed, the images downloaded here are all PNG files. The downloaded image files will not be a single image. Most of them are full image downloads, which need to be cropped and used by yourself. It is more convenient to take a partial screenshot of the screen.
【Design materials】Shapefest 3,000 Hands
Provides free download of 3D hand posture picture material library. There are 50 gestures * 20 angles * 6 skin colors, with a total of 3,000 combinations. Just enter mail to download the PNG format for free, which can be used for personal or commercial use.
【Design materials】イラストレイン
Illustrators from Japan share their own illustrations for everyone to download and use for free. Pictures are added from time to time. The pictures provided are all transparent PNG files. The style of painting is very Japanese, simple and soft. You can quickly find the illustrations you want according to the categories, such as food, zodiac signs, life events, etc…
【Design materials】CleanPNG
Unlimited free downloads of PNGs with transparent backgrounds. No registration required. The total number exceeds 3 million. The resolution is good. You can use filters to quickly filter by time, size, type and color. You can also enter keyword queries directly. You can also register an account to share your works for creators around the world. As for copyright issues, in principle it is free to use, but it is more secure to indicate the source. After all, it is difficult to guarantee that the image provider provides 100% original images, which can avoid unnecessary disputes.
【Design materials】ByDesign IconPark
This is an online open source icon library officially launched by ByteDance. It has thousands of high-quality icons. You can directly set the icon appearance of multiple colors online, and even make individual color settings for stroke, fill, background, etc. It is authorized by Apache License 2.0 and can be used for personal or commercial purposes without signature or source information.
【Online Tools】SendFileOnline
If you need to temporarily share files with friends, you can use the SendFileOnline platform. The maximum file size can be uploaded is 1GB. To share with friends, you can use the URL or provide the other party’s website number to download. It is quite convenient. You can also set the time for automatic deletion of files. The file storage time can be set for one week or 24 hours.
Source: KOCPC Chinese