A curated list of awesome stock photography, video and illustration websites.
I try my best to maintain this repository and keep it up-to-date but if you spot a broken link or a resource which isn't listed, please, feel free to make a pull request.
- Photography
- Illustration
- Vector Graphics
- Videos
- Patterns
- Fonts
- Icons
- Colors
- Aggregated Content
- HTML Templates
- Sounds & Music
- Paid Resources
- How to Contribute
- How to Share
- Donate
- License
All the resources below have specifically specified that their content is ©️ CC0-licensed.
- Alana - Free “use how you want” stock photos.
- Barn Images - Barn Images offers you a collection of free high-resolution non-stock photography.
- Boss Fight! - 10–20 new images added daily.
- CC0 Photo - CC0.photo is a project initiated by Raffael Herrmann, which serves you with free photos.
- Creative Vix - A wide range of photos for you to use.
- Crow the Stone - Free photos to use any way you want.
- Cupcake - Free do what ever you want photos by Jonas Nilsson Lee.
- Epicantus - Hi-resolution photos added every week.
- Fancy Crave - Two new images added every day.
- FindA.Photo - search through thousands of CC0 photos by keyword and color.
- Free Nature Stock - Royalty-free, use them however you want, Nature Stock Photos.
- Free-Images.cc - Create something awesome with free CC0 images.
- Furious Camera - Free Life Hi-Fi Photos for use on your personal and commercial projects. New photo every day.
- Gratisography - Free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects. New pictures added weekly.
- Jay Mantri - Free pics. Do anything. Make magic.
- Jéshoots - Photos for business or personal use in high resolution for free.
- Life of Pix - Free high-resolution photos, no copyright restrictions. Photographs added weekly.
- Little Visuals - Hi-res images zipped up in your inbox. Use them anyway you want.
- Lock & Stock Photos - Free stock photos for you.
- Magdeleine - A selection of free photos curated by Magdeleine.
- MMT - New photos by Jeffrey Betts added every week.
- Moveast - This is a journey of a Portuguese guy moving.
- Negative Space - Stock photos added every week.
- Pexels - Daily 10 new high-quality photos.
- Photo Collections - Free stock photography of architecture, nature and people.
- Photo Crops - Five high resolution photos added every week, sometimes more.
- Pickle Jar - High-resolution images of everyday india. One new image every day.
- Pixabay - Stock photos, illustrations, vectors and videos.
- Realistic Shots - 7 new photos added every week.
- Skitter Photo - Public domain pictures and stock photos for commercial use.
- Snapwire Snaps - Commissioned photos from 170,000 of the world's most talented photographers.
- SpaceX Photos - Promotional SpaceX stock photography.
- Splashbase - Search & discover free, hi res photos & videos.
- Stock Image Point - Free stock photos. 20 pictures added every month.
- Stocksnap - Hundreds of high resolution images added weekly.
- Stokpic - Free Stock Photos For Commercial Use.
- The Pic Pac - New pacs on Monday, free pics Tuesday - Sunday.
- Travel Coffee Book - Travel photography.
- Unsplash - User submitted, free high-resolution photos. 10 new photos every 10 days.
These following photography resources are those who have declared their own usage and restriction terms. These can be found by clicking the (license) link next to the resource.
- Bara Art - ©️ The world always needs high quality photography! Here they are for you, so make something awesome out of them.
- Death to the Stock Photo - ©️ Free monthly photos for all your creative needs.
- Designer Pics - ©️ Free photographs for personal and commercial by Jeshu John.
- Foodies Feed - Free food based images. ©️.
- Good Stock Photos - ©️ One free to use photo added everyday.
- ISO Republic - ©️ ISO Republic provides exclusive free stock photos for creatives.
- Kaboom Pics - ©️ Great place to get breathtaking Free Pictures for business or personal projects.
- morgueFile - ©️ Free photo archive by creatives, for creatives.
- Pic Jumbo - ©️ Totally free photos for your commercial & personal works.
- Picography - ©️ Free hi-resolution photos. Use them however you like.
- Shutteroo - ©️ Free high-resolution travel images.
- Split Shire - ©️ Real photos for commercial use with no copyright restrictions and a real look.
- Startup Stock Photos - ©️ Startup based photography.
- Tookapic - ©️ Free listing from Tookapic.
A collection of links to public domain photography resources.
- Flickr Commons - ©️ Flickr's catalogue of the worlds public photo archives.
- New Old Stock - ©️ Vintage photos from the public archive. of known copyright restrictions.
- Public Domain Archive - ©️ New stock photos every single week.
The photographs on the following resources require Attribution unless otherwise stated on the website itself. These use a mixture of license, all of which have been linked to next to them.
- Albumarium - ©️ The "best" place to find & share beautiful images.
- BucketListly - A free creative common collection of travel photos anyone can use.
- IM Creator - Also includes Website templates and icons. Some (CC0-licensed) works, check the license before use.
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - ©️ Graphics and photos of space and spaceflight.
- Raumrot - (©️) Handpicked stock photos for your commercial and personal works.
- Superfamous - ©️ Superfamous CC BY 3.0 licensed images by Folkert Gorter.
- Women of Color in Tech - ©️ Licensed picture from Women of Color in Tech.
These resources haven't specified any formal terms of use or licenses.
- Freejpg - Free image bank for commercial and editorial use.
- Nobl Web - do as you please, high-resolution photos and textures.
- Peekspace - Curated free-to-use space photography.
- Re:splashed - 670 (and counting) free HD images for your web and design projects.
- Refe Real Life Photos - Free real life photos from REFE.
- Trunklog - A collection of photos from photographer Magnus Jälthammar.
A collection of illustration resources which contain a mixture of historical archive, contemporary and public domain assets.
- British Library Illustration Archive - ©️ The British Library’s collections on Flickr Commons offer access to millions of public domain images.
- Old Book Illustrations - ©️ A massive collection of illustrations from old books.
A collection of resources which contain stock graphical elements which don't fit in the other sections.
A selection of websites offering high quality video stock.
- Coverr - ©️ Beautiful, free, CC0 licensed videos for your homepage. 7 new videos every Monday.
- Distill - Curated HD Video Free For Your Personal and Commercial Use. 10 free HD videos every 10 days.
- Life of Vids - ©️ Free royalty-free videos, clips & loops.
- Mazwai - Great collection of free creative commons HD video clips & footages. Check each video for licensing terms.
- Pexels Videos - ©️ Completely free, CC0 licensed stock videos.
- Vidsplay - ©️ Free HD stock footage (Attribution required).
A mixture of CSS and image based pattern resources.
- CSS3 Patterns Gallery - CSS3 based repeatable patterns.
- Subtle Patterns - Image based background textures and patterns.
- The Pattern Library - A collection of bold, bright and funky repeatable patterns.
- UI Gradients - Nice, subtle linear gradients to use in your designs.
A mixture of free and open source font resources.
- Beautiful Web Type - A showcase of the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory.
- Brick - Webfonts that actually look good.
- Debian Fonts - ©️ TTF fonts from the Debian repositories.
- Font Fabric - Font Fabric's free fonts.
- Font Squirrel - Handpicked fonts free for commercial use.
- Google Fonts - Interactive directory of free hosted application programming interfaces for web fonts.
- Impallari - Libre typeface projects by Pablo Impallari.
- The League of Movable Type - Open-source type foundry.
- Type Genius - Fantastic type pairing tool.
A collection for icon font resources, most of which also include SVGs, which can be used in your interface and website designs.
- Appa Sariicon ©️ 147 8-bit retro style webfont icons for web and mobile
- Batch Icons - ©️ Icon set of 300+ icons, which is part of inuit.css.
- Flaticon - ©️ - Almost 100,000 icons in SVG, PNG, EPS, PSD and Webfont. Most icons are available under attribution.
- Font Awesome - ©️ MIT licensed icon font.
- Fontello - ©️ - Fontello is a tool to quickly pack vector images into webfonts. Also includes a section of stock icons.
- Foundation Icon Fonts 3 - ©️ An icon font from Zurb, the people behind the Foundation framework.
- GLYPHICONS - ©️ The free set is released under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) license and require attribution.
- IcoMoon - ©️ Custom built and crisp icon fonts, done right.
- Ionicons - ©️ The premium icon font for Ionic Framework. 100% free and open source.
- Ligature Symbols - ©️ Really clean icon set inlcuding all major topics.
- Linea - ©️ A free outline iconset featuring 730+ Icons.
- Material Design Icons - ©️ Google's Material Icons.
- Octicons - ©️ GitHub's Icons.
- Open Iconic - ©️ (font) ©️ (icons) Icon set with 223 marks in SVG.
- Social Stackicons - ©️ Icon set with over 60 social brands.
- Topcoat Icons - ©️ Icons by Topcoat.
- Typicons - ©️ (font) ©️ (icons) Rounded icon set with 336 icons.
- WeLoveIconFonts – A free & open source icon fonts hosting service (like Google Web Fonts, but icon fonts only).
A collection for SVG icon resources which can be used in your interface and website designs.
- Entypo - ©️ Carefully crafted iconset by Daniel Bruce.
- Geomicons Icons - ©️ Most basic icon set.
- Iconmonstr - ©️ A huge selection of icons in SVG and PNG format.
- Maps Icon - ©️ Mapsicon is a free collection of maps for nearly every country in the world, available in 11 different sizes, ranging from 16x16 pixels to 1024x1024 pixels, as well as .svg format.
- Material Design Icons - A collections of free, material design style icons.
- Simple Icons - ©️ SVG icons for popular brands.
- The Noun Project - ©️ Over 150,000 icons designed by creators from around the world. Free users must give credit to the creator.
A selection of websites offering color schemes.
- 0to255 - A simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color.
- Bootflat - Bootflat Flat UI color picker is a project digging the Flat Color Picker which gives you the perfect colors for flat designs.
- Brand Colors - Official color codes for the world's biggest brands.
- Coleure - Simple app for grabbing & tweaking colors you see on screen.
- Color Hunt - A place to discover, create, and share color palettes.
- Colorful Gradients - Gradients automatically created by a computer. 48 times daily.
- Colour Lovers - A creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns.
- Coolors - The super fast color schemes generator for cool designers.
- Flat UI Color Picker - A copy and paste resource for colors commonly found in 'flat' designs.
- Flat UI Colors - Flat color picker which gives you the perfect colors for flat designs.
- Material Design Colors - Material ui color palette for Android, Web & iOS.
- Material Palette - Generate & export your Material Design color palette.
A liberal mixture of content aggregated from other free resources and made available at one central point.
- All The Free Stock - One stop resource for free stock images, videos, sounds and more.
- Libre Stock - Search engine for stock photo websites.
- Stock Up - Searching 9,301 (and counting) free stock photos across 25 websites.
Various different websites offering free HTML templates and themes.
- Bootswatch - ©️ Free themes for Bootstrap.
- HTML5 Up - ©️ HTML5 UP makes spiffy HTML5 site templates.
- Templated - ©️ A collection of 850 free CSS and HTML5 site templates, designed & built by Cherry + AJ and released under the Creative Commons.
Free resources for stock sound and music to be used on creative projects
- Free Loops - ©️ Free loops and audio clip.
- Free Music Archive - ©️ An interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America.
- Freesound - ©️ Collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings and bleeps.
- Internet Archive’s Netlabels Collection - ©️ Netlabels collection hosts complete, freely downloadable/streamable.
- Jamendo - ©️ Independent music community with a large collect of creative commons licensed music.
- Opsound - ©️ Free music from a community of musicians.
- SoundBible - ©️ Thousands of free sound effects, sound clips, and straight up sounds.
And last, but not least, a selection of the best paid stock resources.
- Adobe Stock - Photos, Illustrations, Vectors.
- Fotolia - Photos, Illustrations, Vectors, Videos.
- Inky Deals - Premium resources at insane discounts.
- Shutterstock - Photos, Vectors, Editorial, Footages, Music.
- Stocksy - "Cliché-free" Photos.
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