Who doesn’t like something free? Well, it would especially help if you’re a freelancer looking for resources to just up your quality by that little bit. As freelancers, you have your plate full; finding clients, doing the work and chasing for payments.
There’s so much to do, but so little time for you to do it. You don’t want to squander what little time you have left to be looking for design resources and digital tools to help you streamline your process. So, that’s what we’re here for. We’re here to share some of these resources with you to really help you
It feels like a classier version of Pinterest. When you want to get a mood board sorted before you get started, try Niice. Then feel ideas starting to grow in your brain. It’s a great place to get your design inspiration going.
Ionicons are premium icons for use by designers in web, iOS, Android and desktop apps. Built by the Ionic Framework team, they're all free and open source. There are just some top notch icons to choose from. Just check them out and you’ll see something you like.
Grammarly is one of the best tools you can use in your freelance journey. Grammarly’s free version is a fantastic way to check your writing for basic spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors.
Plus, the Grammarly web browser add-on makes it easy to enable the software in other applications. You can use it in sites like Canva, WordPress, Google Docs, social media platforms/schedulers, emails, etc.
Whether or not you’re going to be dealing a lot with copies, it’s always good to have a reliable backup to ensure you don’t have grammar or spelling errors in your design.
Fontfabric is a digital type foundry that creates retail fonts and custom typography for various brands. Rather generously, they also provide a selection of free fonts for anyone to download and use. There are lots more to browse and sample on its nicely designed website.
Coverr is a source of beautifully shot stock videos that are free to download for commercial and non-commercial use, no attribution required. These free videos are great for web designers, filmmakers, advertisers, agencies, or anyone else who can make use of them.
Design your own device mockups in seconds with the free tool Shotsnapp. Choose a device, add an image of your design or screenshot, make the tweaks you want, then generate an attractive mockup that is easily downloaded.
Created by Peter Assentorp, Social Sizes provides designers with the best sizes to use for image and video content on social media. Templates for Sketch, Adobe XD and Photoshop, are all included, and downloadable for free.
A beautifully designed website that shares some of the best creativity out there. It's a veritable curated feast of branding projects, packaging designs, and editorial features, offering support to those they feature and inspiration to the rest of the creative community.
If you happen to be short on funds right now or have been handed a tight budget by a cash-strapped client, these are some of the many free design resources that can help you out. From free fonts, templates and mockups or vector illustrations, stock photography, icons and even videos – all the essential assets you might need to complete your projects without costing you a bomb.
Of course, quality comes first too, and all the resources above are of the highest quality, too. Just because it’s free doesn’t mean you have to compromise. We hope that this will help you in your freelancing jobs in the future.
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