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
• Textures
• 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 :copyright: CC0-licensed.

• 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.
• Crow the Stone - Free photos to use any way you want.
• Cupcake - Free do what ever you want photos by Jonas Nilsson Lee.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Moveast - This is a journey of a Portuguese guy moving.
• Negative Space - Stock photos added every week.
• Openverse - A meta search across several libraries to find adaptable / editable images and audio files.
• Pexels - 20 new high-quality photos daily.
• 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.
• 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.
• Snappy Goat - Over 12 million public domain & CC0 licensed images.
• SpaceX Photos - Promotional SpaceX stock photography.
• Splashbase - Search & discover free, hi-resolution photos & videos.
• Stockified - Free pictures taken in India by Kiran BV and Aditya G Bharadwaj
• Stocksnap - Hundreds of high resolution images added weekly.
• Streetwill - Free hi-resolution vintage photos to use any way you want.
• The Pic Pac - New pacs on Monday, free pics Tuesday - Sunday.
• Travel Coffee Book - Travel photography.
• WordPress Photo Directory - Free, high-quality, community-submitted photographs suitable for use within WordPress sites and elsewhere.

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 - :copyright: The world always needs high quality photography! Here they are for you, so make something awesome out of them.
• Compfight.com - :copyright: An image search engine tailored to efficiently locate images for blogs, comps, inspiration, and research.
• Death to the Stock Photo - :copyright: Free monthly photos for all your creative needs.
• Designer Pics - :copyright: Free photographs for personal and commercial by Jeshu John.
• Fleet Images - :copyright: Free high quality car and truck images searchable by make, model and year.
• Freerange - :copyright: Quality stock photos for commercial and non-commercial use. For free.
• ISO Republic - :copyright: ISO Republic provides exclusive free stock photos for creatives.
• Kaboom Pics - :copyright: Great place to get breathtaking Free Pictures for business or personal projects.
• morgueFile - :copyright: Free photo archive by creatives, for creatives.
• Photober - :copyright: Free of charge photo downloading site for personal or commercial use.
• PhotoStockEditor - :copyright: High-resolution weekly images for Personal & Commercial use.
• Pic Jumbo - :copyright: Totally free photos for your commercial & personal works.
• Picography - :copyright: Free hi-resolution photos. Use them however you like.
• Pixabay - :copyright: Stock photos, illustrations, vectors and videos.
• Reshot - :copyright: Handpicked, non-stocky images. Yours to use as you wish.
• Startup Stock Photos - :copyright: Startup based photography.
• Unsplash - :copyright: User submitted, free high-resolution photos.

Public Domain

A collection of links to public domain photography resources.

• Good Free Photos - :copyright: 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 - :copyright: Flickr's catalogue of the worlds public photo archives.
• New Old Stock - :copyright: Vintage photos from the public archive. of known copyright restrictions.
• NYPL Digital Collections - :copyright: 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 - :copyright: 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.

• 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 - :copyright: Graphics and photos of space and spaceflight.
• UKBlackTech - :copyright: Photographers of British based BAME (Black, Asian, and minority ethnic) people in tech.
• Women of Color in Tech - :copyright: 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.
• Refe Real Life Photos - Free real life photos from REFE.
• titania foto - The free image database
• Mockup World - A mixture of free and premium mockup in-situation templates.
• Wunderstock - 670 (and counting) free HD images for your web and design projects.

Illustration

A collection of illustration resources which contain a mixture of historical archive, contemporary and public domain assets.

• Biodiversity Heritage Library :copyright: :copyright: A mix of Public Domain and Attribution (CC BY 2.0) licenses. Nearly 150,000 exquisite, historical illustrations of life on Earth.
• British Library Illustration Archive - :copyright: The British Library’s collections on Flickr Commons offer access to millions of public domain images.
• Old Book Illustrations - :copyright: A massive collection of illustrations from old books.
• unDraw - :copyright: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create.
• WooBro.design - :copyright: CC-BY licensed vector image illustrations with sources.

Vector Graphics

A collection of resources which contain stock graphical elements which don't fit in the other sections.

• AMCharts - Free SVG Maps - :copyright: A directory of free non-commercial, attribution licensed SVG maps in two level of details: High and low.
• Bioicons - :copyright: High quality science illustrations.
• Facebook Design Resource - :copyright: A collection for design resources from Facebook including iOS9 GUI and various popular device templates.
• FreeVectors.net - :copyright: A fun little community of vector lovers who share free vector graphics.
• Humaans - :copyright: CC0 licensed clipart images of humans.
• Logo Dust - :copyright: Free CC Attribution 4.0 logo designs for your projects.
• Mega Doodles Pack - :copyright: Free and big CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 vector pack with hand-drawn doodles for presentations, social media, blog posts and so on.
• Open Doodles - :copyright: CC-0-licensed vector sketches/cliparts with generator and compositions.
• Sketch Repo - :copyright: Sketch Repo is a great place to discover Sketch App resources for your next design project.
• Vecteezy - :copyright: Discover & download free vector art from a community of Illustrators.

Videos

A selection of websites offering high quality video stock.

• Coverr - :copyright: Beautiful, free, CC0 licensed videos for your homepage. 7 new videos every Monday.
• FreeStockVideo - :copyright: Free Beautiful Video & Footage Clips.
• Life of Vids - :copyright: Free royalty-free videos, clips & loops.
• Mazwai - Great collection of free creative commons HD video clips & footages. Check each video for licensing terms.
• Mixkit - :copyright: High-quality stock videos that are completely free.
• Pexels Videos - :copyright: Completely free, CC0 licensed stock videos.
• Videezy - :copyright: Free stock videos, 4k footage, and free HD video clips.
• Vidsplay - :copyright: Free HD stock footage (Attribution required).
• VYOO - :copyright: Beautiful, Free Vertical Videos.

Patterns

A mixture of CSS and image based pattern resources.

• CSS3 Patterns Gallery - CSS3 based repeatable patterns.
• Hero Patterns - A collection of free CC Attribution 4.0 repeatable SVG background patterns.
• 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.

Textures

Websites offering images suitable for texturing objects for 3D graphics.

• TextureHaven - :copyright: CC0-licensed High quality set of textures with CC0 license.

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.
• Open Type Foundry - :copyright: A new platform for open-source fonts in a noise-free environment.
• The League of Movable Type - Open-source type foundry.

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.

• Devicons - :copyright: 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 - :copyright: MIT licensed icon font.
• Fontello - :copyright: - Fontello is a tool to quickly pack vector images into webfonts. Also includes a section of stock icons.
• Foundation Icon Fonts 3 - :copyright: An icon font from Zurb, the people behind the Foundation framework.
• IcoMoon - :copyright: Custom built and crisp icon fonts, done right.
• Iconstore - :copyright: Free Icons by First-Class Designers.
• Ionicons - :copyright: The premium icon font for Ionic Framework. 100% free and open source.
• Ligature Symbols - :copyright: Really clean icon set including all major topics.
• Material Design Icons - :copyright: Google's Material Icons.
• Octicons - :copyright: GitHub's Icons.
• Open Iconic - :copyright: (font) :copyright: (icons) Icon set with 223 marks in SVG.
• Pathlove Icons - :copyright: 100+ cute and vibrant icons. Free for personal and commercial use; attribution required.
• Simple Icons -:copyright: Free SVG icons for popular brands.
• Social Stackicons - :copyright: Icon set with over 60 social brands.
• Standart - Standart: free SVG icons for use in your project.
• To icon - :copyright: Collection of SVG icons for your project.
• Topcoat Icons - :copyright: Icons by Topcoat.
• Typicons - :copyright: (font) :copyright: (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.

• Atlas Icons - :copyright: 2,701 free consistent icons.
• BlendIcons - :copyright: Free, world top icons.
• Bootstrap Icons - :copyright: Free, high quality, open source icon library with over 1,800 icons.
• Doodle Icons - :copyright: 400+ handcrafted icons free for your next project.
• Entypo - :copyright: Carefully crafted iconset by Daniel Bruce.
• Flowbite - :copyright: Free and open-source SVG icons.
• Fluent UI System Icons - :copyright: Fluent System Icons are a collection of familiar, friendly and modern icons from Microsoft.
• Free Icons - A collection from all the open source icon collections available.
• Free Icons - :copyright: Open-source vector icons in 16 styles for any project.
• Game Icons - :copyright: A growing collection of SVG icons aimed mostly at video games.
• Glow Icons - :copyright: 442 open source icons in 2 styles, made for interfaces.
• Heroicons - :copyright: Beautiful, free SVG icons from the makers of Tailwind CSS.
• Humbleicons - :copyright: A pack of 227 simple, neutral, carefully crafted icons that you can use in your personal and commercial projects for free.
• Iconhunt - A search engine with 150.000+ free, open sources icons.
• Iconmonstr - :copyright: A huge selection of icons in SVG and PNG format.
• Iconoir - :copyright: A Simple and Definitive Open-Source Icons Library.
• Lucide - :copyright: Beautiful & consistent icon toolkit made by the community.
• Maps Icon - :copyright: 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.
• Obra Icons - :copyright: A simple, consistent set of icons, perfect for user interfaces.
• Simple Icons - :copyright: SVG icons for popular brands.
• The Noun Project - :copyright: Over 150,000 icons designed by creators from around the world. Free users must give credit to the creator.
• Unicorn icons - :copyright: 100+ playful animated and customizable icons, available in JSON and SVG format.

Colors

A selection of websites offering color schemes.

• 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.
• Branition Colors - Hand-curated collection of color pallets best fitted for branding.
• 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.
• Coolhue 2.0 - Coolest handpicked Gradient Palette and Swatch for your next super amazing stuff.
• 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.
• Material Design Colors - Material ui color palette for Android, Web & iOS.
• Material Palette - Generate & export your Material Design color palette.
• Volume - Generate and export perceptually uniform color systems in OKLCH.

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 - :copyright: Free themes for Bootstrap.
• HTML5 Up - :copyright: HTML5 UP makes spiffy HTML5 site templates.
• HTMLrev - HTMLrev provides free HTML templates for websites and landing pages.
• Start Bootstrap - :copyright: Free Bootstrap templates and themes.
• Templated - :copyright: A collection of 867 free CSS and HTML5 site templates, designed & built by Cherry + AJ and released under the Creative Commons.
• Themezy - :copyright: Free WordPress themes and website templates.

Sounds & Music

Free resources for stock sound and music to be used on creative projects

• Bensound - :copyright: Royalty free music by Bensound.
• ccMixter - :copyright: ccMixter.org offers over 30,000 original tracks that can be used freely in YouTube videos, remixes, mobile apps, games, and more.
• Free Music Archive - :copyright: An interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America.
• Free To Use - :copyright: Download unlimited background music 100% for free – no registration required. With no copyright claims, all our music is safe and free to use in your videos.
• Freesound - :copyright: Collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings and bleeps.
• FreeSoundEffects - :copyright: For YouTube, filmmakers, games, podcasts and to use in your next video project, for free!
• Internet Archive’s Netlabels Collection - :copyright: Netlabels collection hosts complete, freely downloadable/streamable.
• Jamendo - :copyright: Independent music community with a large collect of creative commons licensed music.
• Sound Image - :copyright: Over 1000 tracks of free music and sound effects for your projects by Eric Matyas.
• SoundBible - :copyright: Thousands of free sound effects, sound clips, and straight up sounds.
• Tunetank - :copyright: Exclusive royalty free music for YouTube videos without copyright claims.
• Unminus - :copyright: Download Royalty Free Music for YouTube Videos, Podcasts and Apps. No Copyright CC0 Music inspired by Unsplash.

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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