Graphic Design

8 Free Awesome Design Tools Every Designer Must Try

As a designer, we always try to find new ways, software, tools to help and speed up our workflow. Moreover, the more tools we try, the more flexible we get. Whereas, sometimes we hesitate to try a tool because of its cost. But there are always free alternatives, and this is what this post is about.

Montana based designer Josh Corbett has come up with some very useful tools that can help you optimize your workflow. Also, make sure to check and follow his awesome Instagram account!!

8 Awesome Design Tools

2. unREAD

Weekly links to help you Become A Better Designer. unread.design collects links around the web that aims to help you learn something new.

3. Contrast Ratio

Contrast Ratio easily calculates color contrast ratios. Passing WCAG was never this easy!

4. Witeboard

Draw and Brainstorm with your team in real-time with Witeboard for absolutely free with no sign-ups.

5. Wordmark.it

Wordmark.it helps you choose fonts by quickly displaying your text with your fonts.

6. ColorHunt

Explore a library of hundreds of user-submitted color palettes to inspire your next design. Please note, the correct link is https://colorhunt.co/ and not https://colorhunt.com/

7. Figmac

Make Figma feel more at home on the Mac. A super lightweight Figma desktop app that delivers a more natural Mac experience to those that don’t like the browser-based feel.

8. Iconset

An amazing, all-in-one Icon Manager to help organize and easily manage all of your icon sets.

9. Web Font Preview

Preview the Google Fonts Library on real website components and previews to help you pick out your fonts.

10. Thank You

If you have any more tools to mention, do write in the comment box below. And share with your designer friends who you feel can benefit from the post. Thank you!!

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