Directory
Fonts, pictures, and icons you can actually ship
Each card says what the license is, in plain speech. “Free” is not a license. If a face or a photo is going on a product, read the page linked from the name.
Nothing on this page matches that.
Google Fonts
The fastest way to put a webfont on a page. The download button is not a promise that every face is free for a logo.
Licenses differ by family. Many are SIL Open Font License. Open the family page.
Inter
A text face that stays readable at small sizes. The author publishes the files; Google Fonts hosts a cut of the same family.
SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Fontshare
Display faces with more personality than the usual system stack, still offered for commercial work under their terms.
Indian Type Foundry’s free-font terms. Each family page states commercial use. It is not the SIL license.
Font Squirrel
A filter for fonts you can download as files. Read the license tab. Some are free for desktop use and fussy about webfonts.
Each font keeps its own license. “Free” on the list is not one license.
Phosphor
A large icon set with weights, so a 16px nav and a 32px empty state can share a drawing.
License: MIT. Read the repository notice before you ship a modified set.
Lucide
The community fork of Feather, still a thin stroke. Fine for interfaces, thin for a poster.
ISC license.
Heroicons
Outline and solid, drawn for Tailwind’s defaults. Twenty-four pixels, then stop inventing a third size.
License: MIT. Read the repository notice before you ship a modified set.
Unsplash
Photographs you can drop into a draft without emailing a photographer. Still look at the license page once.
Unsplash License: free to use, including commercially. Do not compile the photos into a competing stock library. People in the photos did not grant you a model release.
Pexels
A second photo shelf when Unsplash has twenty sunsets and none of the object you need.
Pexels License: free to use, including commercially. You cannot sell the photos unchanged. No model release is included.
Pixabay
Photos, illustrations, and short clips under one license summary. The summary is the part that matters.
Pixabay Content License. Free for most commercial use. Identifiable people and some brands are excluded. Read the summary.
Wikimedia Commons
The place for a photograph of a building, a map, or a manuscript scan, with the rights written on the file.
Per file. Many are Creative Commons or public domain. The file page names the license and the author.
Smithsonian Open Access
Museum objects you can use without asking, when the record says Open Access. The souvenir-shop photos are a different pile.
Smithsonian marks Open Access items CC0. Other items on the same site are not.
unDraw
Flat illustrations in one color you can recolor. They look like every other SaaS page if you use them unchanged.
unDraw’s license: use the illustrations, including commercially, without attribution. Do not resell the files as your own illustration pack.
Open Doodles
Sketchy people for empty states. A different hand from unDraw, which is the only reason to own both.
The site says the doodles are free for personal and commercial use. Attribution is appreciated, not required, on their license page.
Coolors
A palette generator. Colors are not copyrighted as such. The app’s paid extras are.
Adobe Color
Harmony rules and a wheel, tied to an Adobe account. Useful when you already live in their apps.
RealFaviconGenerator
Turns one icon into the pile of files browsers still ask for. Your artwork stays yours; the tool is the service.
Colormind
Palettes suggested by a model trained on pictures. The site is plain HTTP. Treat the colors as a starting guess.