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
• 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.

• ABSFreePic - A high-resolution and absolutely free photos stock site.
• 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.
• Creative Commons Search - A meta search across several libaries to find adaptable / editable images
• 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.
• Freely Photos - Totally free high quality Christian stock photography.
• 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.
• 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.
• Pexels - 20 new high-quality photos daily.
• 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.
• 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 res photos & videos.
• Stock Image Point - Free stock photos. 20 pictures added every month.
• 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-res vintage photos to use any way you want.
• 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.

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.
• Rawpixel - ©️ Redefining stock imagery with authentically styled and unique stock photos (Subscribe required).
• 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.

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 - [©️] (https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/legal-notices/website-terms-and-conditions) 180.000 items are Public Domain since January 6th 2016 Public Domain Collections: Free to Share & Reuse
• Project Apollo Archive - :copyright 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.
• Nobl Web - do as you please, high-resolution photos and textures.
• Re:splashed - 670 (and counting) free HD images for your web and design projects.
• 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.

Illustration

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.

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.
• 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.
• Logo Dust - ©️ Free CC Attribution 4.0 logo designs for your projects.
• 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.
• 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.
• Pond5 - Download thousands of historic media files (videos, audio, images and 3d models) for your creative projects. completely free.
• Videezy - ©️ Free stock videos, 4k footage, and free HD video clips.
• Vidsplay - ©️ Free HD stock footage (Attribution required).

Patterns

A mixture of CSS and image based pattern resources.

• CSS3 Patterns Gallery - CSS3 based repeatable 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.

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.
• Impallari - Libre typeface projects by Pablo Impallari.
• Open Type Foundry - ©️ A new platform for open-source fonts in a noise-free environment.
• The League of Movable Type - Open-source type foundry.
• Canva Font Combinations (Type Genius) - Fantastic type pairing tool.

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.
• 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.
• Standart - Standart: free SVG icons for use in 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.

• Entypo - ©️ Carefully crafted iconset by Daniel Bruce.
• Game Icons - ©️ A growing collection of SVG icons aimed mostly at video games.
• 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.

Colors

A selection of websites offering color schemes.

• 0to255 - A simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color.
• 0xrgb - A minimalistic color picker for well-known palettes (Material, iOS, FlatUI, Metro, Tango, Solarized).
• 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 Colors - Flat color picker which gives you the perfect colors for flat designs.
• LOLColors - A nice curated color palette inspiration resource.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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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To the extent possible under law, Tony Phipps has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.