Web Designer Arsenal

There are many sites on the Internet that help the web designer to work: resources with icons, photos for Photoshop, UI-kit, fonts, inspirational works of other designers and many others. In this article, I tried to collect the most useful sites for web designers.

Large and popular sites

Behance  - works of the best designers from around the world



Dribbble  - many great design elements



DeviantArt  - a  very old and large resource with a huge amount of work and design elements.

Blogs

Smashing Magazine  -  No Submission, Great



Webdesigntuts +



A List Apart Magazine



DesignModo Premium Pixels Collective Blog

Inspiration

Designshack



siteInspire

Services

Adobe Kuler  - choosing a color scheme



When can I use ...  - checking technology compatibility with browsers

Subtle Patterns  - background images

Icons

IconFinder



IconArchive

FindIcons

IconDeposit

FreeIconsWeb

UI and design elements

Designmoo



Patterntap



365psd

Design Kindle

UX Movement

psdGraphics

Freebiesbooth.com

Best PSD Freebies

Vector images and photos

FreePik



Open Clipart



Pixabay

Free Digital Photos

Every Stock Photo

Free Photos Bank

Studio25

PhotoGen

FreeJPG

TurboPhoto

KaveWall

MorgueFile

A Digital Dreamer

ImageBase

PhotoRack

QVectors

Vecteezy

VectoroPenStock

VectorMadness

Vectorilla

Vector4Free

GraphicsFuel

Great Vectors

WOW Vectors

Vector Portal

Free-Vectors

VectorPile

AllVectors

Vector

Fonts

Google WebFonts



Dafont

Typecast

Typespiration

Logos

LogoInstant



Snaboopie

Shapes for Photoshop

Shapes4Free



DeviantArt

Photoshop brushes

Brusheezy



MyPhotoshopBrushes

QBrushes

PSBrushes

Materials Used:

• Web Designer's Arsenal: a Collection of Free Useful Websites
• 21 essential resource sites for web designers
• 7 Best deviantART Alternatives for Web Designers to Showcase their Skills
• 5 Sites with Free Resources for Web Designers and Developers
• 30 Top Resource Sites for Web Designers
• Top 10 Sites for Web Designers to Find Freebies
• Own bookmarks

Of course, not all resources are collected here, simply because there are a lot of them on the Internet. What are your favorite design sites?