{"id":234,"date":"2021-06-14T18:01:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T18:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/viscom-students\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=234"},"modified":"2025-03-03T16:19:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T16:19:23","slug":"design-tools-and-content-resources","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/viscom-students\/knowledge-base\/design-tools-and-content-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Tools and Content Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Fonts<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fonts.google.com\/\">Google Fonts<\/a>\u2014A free provider of fonts for web and desktop use<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fonts.adobe.com\/\">Adobe Fonts<\/a>\u2014Included with Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions, Adobe Fonts provides a massive library of high quality fonts for use on the web or desktop<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/maketypework.com\/the-3-secrets-to-font-pairing\/\">Font Pairing<\/a>\u2014Learn the secrets of multiple different types of pairings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Royalty Free Images<\/h3>\n<p>If you need images, there are a lot of open source options.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/\">Unsplash<\/a>\u2014&#8221;Over 1 million free high-resolution images brought to you by the world\u2019s most generous community of photographers.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/undraw.co\/illustrations\">Undraw<\/a>\u2014&#8221;A constantly updated design project with beautiful SVG images that you can use completely free and without attribution.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/generated.photos\/\">Generated Photos<\/a>\u2014&#8221;Enhance your creative works with photos generated completely by AI. Find model images through our sorted and tagged app, or integrate images via API.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/openaccess\">Smithsonian Open Access<\/a>\u2014Tons of free images.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>\u2014Check the &#8220;Information about reusing&#8221; links with images to see if the original creator wants attribution.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/\">Pixabay<\/a>\u2014Another option with a big catalog of free images.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pebblely.com\/?ref=allthingsai\">Pebblely<\/a>\u2014Beautiful product photos in seconds<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/picography.co\/\">Picography<\/a>\u2014High-resolution, royalty-free stock photos<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Icons<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/icones.js.org\/\">Ic\u00f4nes<\/a>\u2014A searchable compendium of icon libraries for you to use<\/li>\n<li><a 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for interfaces<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/game-icons.net\/\">Game Icons<\/a> \u2014 Niche icons for game designs<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.streamlinehq.com\/grids-and-keyshapes\/\">Icon Designs<\/a>\u2014Understand the rules of icon design (grids and key shapes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Color<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coolors.co\/app\">Coolors<\/a>\u2014A tool for creating and sharing color palettes<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/color.adobe.com\/\">Adobe Color<\/a>\u2014Another tool for creating and sharing color palettes<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorbox.io\/\">Colorbox<\/a>\u2014A color tool for producing sets of color shades<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oklch.com\/#70,0.1,142,100\">OKLCH<\/a>\u2014Color picker and converter, a way to encode colors<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/accessiblepalette.com\/\">Accessible Palette<\/a>\u2014Create color systems with consistent lightness and contrast<\/li>\n<li><a 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