Free assets worth bookmarking

The biggest of the free photo libraries, strongest on landscapes, interiors and editorial-feeling portraits.

Photos and stock video in one place, with a more commercial, product-and-lifestyle slant than Unsplash.

Photos, vectors, illustrations and music under one licence. Quality is uneven, but the range is enormous.

A search engine across openly licensed media from Flickr, Wikimedia and others. Best when you need something specific rather than something pretty.

A smaller, hand-picked library. Useful when the mainstream sites all return the same over-used shot.

Flat SVG scenes with a single accent colour you set before downloading, so a whole set matches your brand.

Loose, sketchy figures in poses that read as human rather than corporate. Released into the public domain.

A mix-and-match character library - swap heads, bodies and poses to build a cast that is not on every other site.

Illustration and icon packs in several distinct styles. Check each pack: the library mixes free and paid sets.

Editable, animatable scenes with a colour and background editor in the browser. Free use expects a credit.

The community continuation of Feather, far larger than the original and just as consistent. It is the icon set shadcn/ui ships with.

From the Tailwind CSS team, in outline, solid and micro weights. A small set, very carefully drawn.

Six weights of the same icons, which makes it unusually easy to match an existing type scale.

Thousands of stroke icons on a strict grid. The one to reach for when a niche concept has no icon anywhere else.

Brand marks with official colours, for footers and integration pages. The SVGs are CC0; the trademarks they depict are not, so follow each brand’s own guidelines.

The default starting point - well over a thousand open-source families, all downloadable for self-hosting rather than only served from the CDN.

The same open fonts packaged per family on npm, so self-hosting is an install rather than a download-and-subset chore.

Hand-checked for commercial-use licensing, and home of the webfont generator that subsets and converts a font you already have the right to use.

A small, opinionated collection of open-source faces with more personality than the usual defaults.

Experimental libre type from a French foundry. Where to look when a display face needs to be genuinely unfamiliar.

The largest of the genuinely free footage libraries, under the same licence as their photos.

Built specifically for website background video - short, quiet, loopable clips rather than narrative footage.

Footage, music, sound effects and motion templates together, which makes it a practical one-stop for a short promo.

Curated, properly credited music under a range of Creative Commons terms. Filter by licence before you fall in love with a track.

A vast collaborative database of raw sound effects and field recordings. Licences differ per upload and are stated on each page.

Production-style tracks and loops under the single Pixabay licence - the simplest terms of anything in this group.

Clean, short interface and transition sounds - the kind an app actually needs, rather than a cinematic library.

HDRIs, PBR textures and models, all public domain, all scanned or authored to a consistently high standard.

Thousands of tiling PBR material sets at several resolutions, public domain, with no account needed to download.

Repeatable SVG background patterns with the colour and opacity set in the browser, copied out as a CSS data URI.

Small, subtle, tileable PNG overlays for adding grain to a flat surface without a large image request.

Thousands of duplicatable files: UI kits, device mockups, wireframe libraries and icon sets. Each file states its own licence.

Not a download but a copy-in component library for React and Tailwind - MIT licensed and yours to edit once it is in your repo. The cards on this page are built with it.

An aggregator of free PSD mockups - devices, packaging, stationery, apparel. Licences vary by contributor.