Design

Last updated on 09 April 2022

I'm not a designer, so I find it useful to take inspiration from others when building software.

Illustrations

• Ira Design [1] for illustrations

• unDraw [2] - A great collection of open-source illustrations with customisable colour schemes.

Iconography

• 3dicons [3] - Open source 3D icon library

• Boring Avatars [4] - User avatar generation

Typeface

• National Park Typeface [5] - Typeface inspired by National Parks Service

• Recursive [6] - Flexible typeface (I use this on this website)

Imagery

• Nordic Wallpapers [7] - small collection of wallpapers for use with a Nordic theme

Colour and pattern

• Egg Gradients [8] - A collection of nicely designed (and well-named) colour gradients for use in projects.

• Happy Hues [9] - A collection of colour schemes, shown in context in mock interfaces.

• Pattern.css [10] - CSS library for applying patterns to websites/apps.

Inspiration and building blocks

• Openby.design [11] - UI design resources and inspiration

• Rareblocks [12] - Front-end building blocks for web2 & web3

• Vanta.js [13] - Animated website backgrounds in a few lines of code

Design tools and collections

• Spark Joy [14] - Design tools and tips for developers in a hurry