what's cracking satori fam today we're going to explore the recesses of the
internet and we're going to head into unknown
corners of the web because i found a few design tools that you've probably
never heard of before so the first resource is a color based
website and in the search bar you can actually type in terms such as love
hot water what i'm going to do here metal
now it might take a while for this thing to load but when it does
it's actually going to search out some color palettes in relation to your
search term now you can change how many colors are
in each palette so three to a maximum of seven
and also you can toggle the color modes here so maybe you want to see the hex
color code values or you can switch things over to hsl or
even you know rgb and this is pretty neat and we have a
dynamic animation off to the left which displays all of the hues which
have been found and for those of you with sensitive eyes
you can switch the ui over to a night mode
you can also upload images to this website and it's going to grab the
colors from that image but i find this pretty slow on my
computer so that's something you might not want to do
but the next website however in today's video is something
truly remarkable and free so icon set has
two uses and like i said it is free we can download the actual program for
both mac and windows so only people who use linux are left
out here so yeah you can go ahead and download
the program and while you're waiting you can also download the free icon sets
there are plenty of different icon sets to browse through and yes they are free
they do look pretty neat as well but once the program has downloaded
crack it open and let's take a look inside
this program is a place to store and organize
all of your icon sets you can create new folder sets here
or you can just simply drag and drop a set into the program itself
it is really handy to have a place to store all of your icon sets
in a neat and organized manner like this
you can then click on an icon from your sets and grab the
svg code right here
or of course you can go ahead and open it up with adobe illustrator as an
example so yeah it's really easy to use the ui
is intuitive and clean and well thought out and it is free
which is pretty remarkable for something that has no price tag what
more could you possibly ask for
but speaking of icons there's another website completely full of them
however shape.so has 28 000 downloads both icons and illustrations in forms of
static and animated now this resource is a freemium which
means there is a free version but that only allows for png downloads
and they're not for commercial use however the paid version is not that
expensive when you consider what is actually on offer here
having access to animated icons and illustrations is pretty neat
and you might want to consider the price for this resource if you are a serious
designer who is in the sector and someone who
uses these files on a regular basis in their workflow
so you just have a look around and see if it is for you but let's move on to
the next resource which is completely free
now color slurp is a powerful download i know it is available on mac
and it might be available in windows 2. i haven't actually checked
but yeah you can always go ahead and see for yourself if it is and yeah it is
free to download now this resource allows you to download
or grab any color from anywhere on your screen at any time
so let's give it a download and test it out and see how it works
so here i am scrolling around an inspiration based website
and maybe i do like some of the colors on this page here
i can use the color slope i drop a tool and this is going to grab
any color that i see or want on screen and when it does it actually makes a
slurping noise which is pretty cool so from here you can copy the color
codes up at the top or you can make a collection below in
the actual app itself and you can save these collections as
you go cycling through the website whatever you're looking at
you can of course also make adjustments directly into the program
and then save those new adjustments as you go
so yes another free to use and pretty neat
resource found online the fifth resource today is a free
location to grab patterns and textures so sometimes it can be annoying trying
to find high resolution and free textures for your artwork
if you're working say in photoshop as an example
so yeah this site has commercial use textures and patterns for you to grab
and there aren't like a million of choices for you to download
but it is worth giving a look to see what is on offer and what you can make
use of i personally have bookmarked a whole
folder with free resources and i've made so many videos on this channel dedicated
to free resources to you as a graphic designer so if you
have seen many of these videos you probably should have bookmarked
these websites so they're just there for you to use anytime you need them
but yeah i'm going to link another video on screen which has more free resources
so give that a watch and until next time guys design your future today
peace
you