awesome stock resources

Awesome Stock Resources

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.

Table of Contents

• Photography
  • CC0-license
  • Custom License / Usage
  • Public Domain
  • Attribution required licenses
  • Unspecified License
• Illustration
• Vector Graphics
• Videos
• Patterns
• Textures
• Fonts
• Icons
  • Icon Fonts
  • Icons Packages and Collections
• Colors
• Aggregated Content
• HTML Templates
• Sounds & Music
• Paid Resources
• How to Contribute
• How to Share
• Donate
• License

Photography

CC0-license

All the resources below have specifically specified that their content is ©️ CC0-licensed.

• Altphotos – Handpicked free high-resolution photos added daily.
• Barn Images – Barn Images offers you a collection of free high-resolution non-stock photography.
• CC0.Photo – CC0.photo is a project initiated by Raffael Herrmann, which serves you with free photos.
• Crow the Stone – Free photos to use any way you want.
• Cupcake – Free do what ever you want photos by Jonas Nilsson Lee.
• 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.
• Freely Photos – Totally free high quality Christian stock photography.
• 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.
• LibreShot – A collection of hundreds of high quality free stock images for personal or commercial use.
• 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.
• 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.
• Openverse – A meta search across several libraries to find adaptable / editable images and audio files.
• Pexels – 20 new high-quality photos daily.
• Photo Crops – Five high resolution photos added every week, sometimes more.
• Pickle Jar – High-resolution images of everyday india. One new image every day.
• Pickupimage – Free download high quality premium free stock images, public domain photos.
• Pixabay – Stock photos, illustrations, vectors and videos.
• Realgraphy – Authentic Non-Stock Photos for Free. Forever.
• Realistic Shots – 7 new photos added every week.
• Skitter Photo – Public domain pictures and stock photos for commercial use.
• Skuawk – Skuawk public domain photos, free, beautiful and artistically loud.
• Snappy Goat – Over 12 million public domain & CC0 licensed images.
• 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-resolution photos & videos.
• Stockified – Free pictures taken in India by Kiran BV and Aditya G Bharadwaj.
• Stocksnap – Hundreds of high resolution images added weekly.
• Stokpic – Free Stock Photos For Commercial Use.
• Streetwill – Free hi-resolution vintage photos to use any way you want.
• The Pic Pac – New pacs on Monday, free pics Tuesday – Sunday.
• Travel Coffee Book – Travel photography.
• Wesaturate – A collection of completely free CC0 images in RAW and JPG formats.

Custom License / Usage

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.
• Compfight.com – ©️ An image search engine tailored to efficiently locate images for blogs, comps, inspiration, and research.
• 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. ©️.
• Freerange – ©️ Quality stock photos for commercial and non-commercial use. For free.
• 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.
• Photober – ©️ Free of charge photo downloading site for personal or commercial use.
• PhotoStockEditor – ©️ High-resolution weekly images for Personal & Commercial use.
• Pic Jumbo – ©️ Totally free photos for your commercial & personal works.
• Picography – ©️ Free hi-resolution photos. Use them however you like.
• Reshot – ©️ Handpicked, non-stocky images. Yours to use as you wish.
• 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.
• Unsplash – ©️ User submitted, free high-resolution photos.

Public Domain

A collection of links to public domain photography resources.

• Good Free Photos – ©️ A large free stock photo site with thousands of public domain photos including landscapes, objects, animals, plants, textures, and many other free photos. All photos taken by the website owner.
• Flickr Commons – ©️ Flickr\’s catalogue of the worlds public photo archives.
• New Old Stock – ©️ Vintage photos from the public archive. of known copyright restrictions.
• NYPL Digital Collections – ©️ 180.000 items are Public Domain since January 6th 2016 Public Domain Collections: Free to Share & Reuse
• Project Apollo Archive – ©️ High-resolution Apollo imagery scanned by NASA\’s Johnson Space Center.
• Public Domain Archive – ©️ New stock photos every single week.

Attribution Required licenses

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.
• PhotoEverywhere – ©️ Globe-trot our collection of high resolution Travel Stock Images More than 3600 photos that are Free to use and ready for instant download.
• Superfamous – ©️ Superfamous CC BY 3.0 licensed images by Folkert Gorter.
• UKBlackTech – ©️ Photographers of British based BAME (Black, Asian, and minority ethnic) people in tech.
• Women of Color in Tech – ©️ Licensed picture from Women of Color in Tech.

Unspecified License

These resources haven\’t specified any formal terms of use or licenses.

• Freejpg – Free image bank for commercial and editorial use.
• Function – High-resolution photos by Liam McKay.
• Refe Real Life Photos – Free real life photos from REFE.
• titania foto – The free image database
• Trunklog – A collection of photos from photographer Magnus Jälthammar.
• Mockup World – A mixture of free and premium mockup in-situation templates.
• Wunderstock – 670 (and counting) free HD images for your web and design projects.

Illustration

A collection of illustration resources which contain a mixture of historical archive, contemporary and public domain assets.

• Biodiversity Heritage Library ©️ ©️ A mix of Public Domain and Attribution (CC BY 2.0) licenses. Nearly 150,000 exquisite, historical illustrations of life on Earth.
• 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.
• unDraw – ©️ Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create.
• WooBro.design – ©️ CC-BY licensed vector image illustrations with sources.

Vector Graphics

A collection of resources which contain stock graphical elements which don\’t fit in the other sections.

• AMCharts – Free SVG Maps – ©️ A directory of free non-commercial, attribution licensed SVG maps in two level of details: High and low.
• Bioicons – ©️ High quality science illustrations.
• Facebook Design Resource – ©️ A collection for design resources from Facebook including iOS9 GUI and various popular device templates.
• Freepik – ©️ Find free vectors, PSD, icons and photos.
• FreeVectors.net – ©️ A fun little community of vector lovers who share free vector graphics.
• Humaans – ©️ CC0 licensed clipart images of humans.
• Logo Dust – ©️ Free CC Attribution 4.0 logo designs for your projects.
• Mega Doodles Pack – ©️ Free and big CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 vector pack with hand-drawn doodles for presentations, social media, blog posts and so on.
• Open Doodles – ©️ CC-0-licensed vector sketches/cliparts with generator and compositions.
• Sketch Repo – ©️ Sketch Repo is a great place to discover Sketch App resources for your next design project.
• Vecteezy – ©️ Discover & download free vector art from a community of Illustrators.

Videos

A selection of websites offering high quality video stock.

• Coverr – ©️ Beautiful, free, CC0 licensed videos for your homepage. 7 new videos every Monday.
• FreeStockVideo – ©️ Free Beautiful Video & Footage Clips.
• 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.
• Mixkit – ©️ High-quality stock videos that are completely free.
• Pexels Videos – ©️ Completely free, CC0 licensed stock videos.
• Pixabay – ©️ Thousands of free stock video clips & footage from community contributors.
• Videezy – ©️ Free stock videos, 4k footage, and free HD video clips.
• Vidsplay – ©️ Free HD stock footage (Attribution required).
• VYOO – ©️ Beautiful, Free Vertical Videos.

Patterns

A mixture of CSS and image based pattern resources.

• CSS3 Patterns Gallery – CSS3 based repeatable patterns.
• Gradienta – ©️ Multicolor CSS Gradients, JPG Downloads, 100% Free!
• Hero Patterns – A collection of free CC Attribution 4.0 repeatable SVG background patterns.
• Low Poly Images – Collection of low poly image generators.
• 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.

Textures

Websites offering images suitable for texturing objects for 3D graphics.

• TextureHaven – ©️ CC0-licensed High quality set of textures with CC0 license.

Fonts

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.
• 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.
• Open Type Foundry – ©️ A new platform for open-source fonts in a noise-free environment.
• The League of Movable Type – Open-source type foundry.

Icons

Icon Fonts

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.
• Devicons – ©️ Meet Devicons, an iconic font made for developers, code jedis, ninjas, HTTPsters, evangelists and nerds(sic). 100+ icons ready to use in your next project.
• Iconfinder – Iconfinder provides beautiful icons to millions of designers and developers. Most icons are available under attribution. See individual licenses for more details.
• 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.
• IcoMoon – ©️ Custom built and crisp icon fonts, done right.
• Iconstore – ©️ Free Icons by First-Class Designers.
• Ionicons – ©️ The premium icon font for Ionic Framework. 100% free and open source.
• Ligature Symbols – ©️ Really clean icon set including all major topics.
• Material Design Icons – ©️ Google\’s Material Icons.
• Octicons – ©️ GitHub\’s Icons.
• Open Iconic – ©️ (font) ©️ (icons) Icon set with 223 marks in SVG.
• Pathlove Icons – ©️ 100+ cute and vibrant icons. Free for personal and commercial use; attribution required.
• Simple Icons -©️ Free SVG icons for popular brands.
• Social Stackicons – ©️ Icon set with over 60 social brands.
• Standart – Standart: free SVG icons for use in your project.
• To icon – ©️ Collection of SVG icons for your project.
• Topcoat Icons – ©️ Icons by Topcoat.
• Typicons – ©️ (font) ©️ (icons) Rounded icon set with 336 icons.
• Weather Icons – Weather Icons is the only icon font and CSS with 222 weather themed icons.
• WeLoveIconFonts – A free & open source icon fonts hosting service (like Google Web Fonts, but icon fonts only).

Icons Packages and Collections

A collection for SVG icon resources which can be used in your interface and website designs.

• Atlas Icons – ©️ 2,701 free consistent icons.
• BlendIcons – ©️ Free, world top icons.
• Bootstrap Icons – ©️ Free, high quality, open source icon library with over 1,800 icons.
• Doodle Icons – ©️ 400+ handcrafted icons free for your next project.
• Entypo – ©️ Carefully crafted iconset by Daniel Bruce.
• Flowbite – ©️ Free and open-source SVG icons.
• Fluent UI System Icons – ©️ Fluent System Icons are a collection of familiar, friendly and modern icons from Microsoft.
• Free Icons – A collection from all the open source icon collections available.
• Free Icons – ©️ Open-source vector icons in 16 styles for any project.
• Game Icons – ©️ A growing collection of SVG icons aimed mostly at video games.
• Heroicons – ©️ Beautiful, free SVG icons from the makers of Tailwind CSS.
• Humbleicons – ©️ A pack of 227 simple, neutral, carefully crafted icons that you can use in your personal and commercial projects for free.
• Iconhunt – A search engine with 150.000+ free, open sources icons.
• Iconmonstr – ©️ A huge selection of icons in SVG and PNG format.
• Iconoir – ©️ A Simple and Definitive Open-Source Icons Library.
• Lucide – ©️ Beautiful & consistent icon toolkit made by the community.
• Maps Icon – ©️ Mapsicon is a free collection of maps for nearly every country in the world, available in 11 different sizes, ranging from 16×16 pixels to 1024×1024 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.
• Unicorn icons – ©️ 100+ playful animated and customizable icons, available in JSON and SVG format.

Colors

A selection of websites offering color schemes.

• 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.
• Branition Colors – Hand-curated collection of color pallets best fitted for branding.
• 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.
• Coolhue 2.0 – Coolest handpicked Gradient Palette and Swatch for your next super amazing stuff.
• Coolors – The super fast color schemes generator for cool designers.
• 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.

Aggregated Content

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.
• Avopix – More than 15 000 absolutely free stock photos and vectors.
• Libre Stock – Search engine for stock photo websites.
• Stock Up – Searching 9,301 (and counting) free stock photos across 25 websites.
• The Stocks – The best royalty free stock photos in one place.

HTML Templates

Various different websites offering free HTML templates and themes.

• Bootswatch – ©️ Free themes for Bootstrap.
• HTML5 Rocket – ©️ Free HTML5 site templates.
• HTML5 Up – ©️ HTML5 UP makes spiffy HTML5 site templates.
• Start Bootstrap – ©️ Free Bootstrap templates and themes.
• Templated – ©️ A collection of 850 free CSS and HTML5 site templates, designed & built by Cherry + AJ and released under the Creative Commons.
• Themezy – ©️ Free WordPress themes and website templates.

Sounds & Music

Free resources for stock sound and music to be used on creative projects

• Bensound – ©️ Royalty free music by Bensound.
• ccMixter – ©️ ccMixter.org offers over 30,000 original tracks that can be used freely in YouTube videos, remixes, mobile apps, games, and more.
• 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.
• FreeSoundEffects – ©️ For YouTube, filmmakers, games, podcasts and to use in your next video project, for free!
• 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.
• Jukedeck – ©️ Machine learning powered royalty-free original music.
• Sound Image – ©️ Over 1000 tracks of free music and sound effects for your projects by Eric Matyas.
• SoundBible – ©️ Thousands of free sound effects, sound clips, and straight up sounds.
• Tunetank – ©️ Exclusive royalty free music for YouTube videos without copyright claims.
• Unminus – ©️ Download Royalty Free Music for YouTube Videos, Podcasts and Apps. No Copyright CC0 Music inspired by Unsplash.

Paid Resources

And last, but not least, a selection of the best paid 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.
• Graphic River – Hand-reviewed graphic assets from a community of designers.
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