Startup Toolbox: Design
We know that you are focused on building and growing something awesome that is why we decided to create a list of tools and resources to help you on your journey. The purpose of The Startup ToolBox is to help you find the right resources!
This week we have a curated list of tools and resources to help you with Design.
Canva
Canva is an incredibly simple to use online design platform that is making design accessible to the 99.7% of internet users that don’t own or can’t use the Adobe products. It integrates a full stock photography library, vector library, font library and layout library into a drag and drop design tool which enables everyone to create incredible designs for web and print.
https://www.canva.com
Stencil
Stencil is a brand new and incredible way to get more engagement on social media. We make it ridiculously easy to find photos, create visual content and instantly share it. Visual content is 40x more likely to be shared online, and we want to bring the power of creating those visuals into the hands of small business owners.
Stencil was designed to be the fastest way to create beautiful visuals without having to hire a designer.
Flimbo
Flimbo allows any one to create beautiful graphical designs through templates, ready images, icons and graphics in a very intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
We support printed and digital media with tons of templates for you to choose and use as a start. The templates were built by specialists seeking to make a great impression for your brand.
Vectr
Vectr is a graphic design platform with a low learning curve and built-in collaboration. Unlike PhotoShop or Adobe Illustrator, Vectr is easy to learn and use. Collaboration works just like Google docs, and you can use Vectr as both a web app or downloadable desktop app.
https://vectr.com
Piktochart
Piktochart helps users create engaging infographics from their data/information. Users know how to create presentations, but they lack the design know-how.
https://piktochart.com/
PastelPad
PastelPad is a stock resource for artist-quality illustrations. Offering free image downloads for your blog, web design, social media, content marketing or other entrepreneurship endeavours
www.pastelpad.com
Undraw
UnDraw is a service where you can discover completely free and high-quality illustrations for any project and without any attribution necessary. Perfect for landing pages, mobile apps, books, posters, t-shirts or anything really!
undraw.co
Flaticon
Flaticon is the largest search engine of free icons in the world. It offers users, high-quality graphic designs: editable vectors carefully selected by our design team to provide our users with great content that can be used in both personal and commercial projects.
https://flaticon.com
Icon Store
IconStore has a vast collection of icons that can be used for commercial and personal projects without the need for attribution. It has icons from all different categories from food to landmark icons. All icons can be downloaded in PNG or SVG files.
https://iconstore.co
HTML Color Codes
With the magic of HTML5, you can get colors from any image with this simple online tool.
http://html-color-codes.info/colors-from-image
Google Fonts
Google fonts was created to make the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography.It is a repository of Google’s fonts that you can explore and use in more than 135 languages. The most amazing part is that for each listed font, you can learn more about the designer and the inspiration behind it.
https://fonts.google.com
Font Fit
Font fit lets you quickly see how your website would look like in a different font. It allows you to see how the different fonts impact on your websites looks. You can even see how other websites would look like if they used a different font.
http://www.fontfit.com
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