Resources
I'm still trying to work out how to make buttons to expand and collapse everything ^^; in the meantime, this link technically works. Horrific for data hygiene, though.
Collapse All📁 Fonts
- Velvetyne
Open source Type Foundry.
(Best for headings) - INT 10h
Extensive selection of old school PC fonts.CC Attribution Sharealike 4.0 - Google Fonts
Open source. - Type01 Free font Pack Worth noting that you have to subscribe to their newsletter to get it.
- Fontspace
Decent selection of free fonts - Blambot
Comic Fonts and Lettering
📰 Typography
- Fontbase
Font manager so you don't have to install every single font on your computer. - Fonts in Use
Examples of fonts in the wild. - Typewolf Guides
General helpful type-pairing advice. - Type
Connection
A cute little dating Game for font pairing.
🎨 Art References
- Pure Ref
A tool for making moodboards. DOWNLOAD THIS. IT WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE. - Line of Action
Timed drawing - Trueref
Free refs - Reference Angle
That one where you can tilt the head to find a pic on the same angle - Public Work
Public domain content. - Fat Photo refs
- Black hairstyle refs
📌 Visual Research
- Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute
- Aesthetics Wiki
- V&A Collection
Extremely well indexed design museum. - Fashion History
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- Pure Ref
YES THIS WAS IN THE PREVIOUS LIST. YES YOU SHOULD TRY IT OUT. IT IS FREEEEE. - Book Cover Archive
📐 Design Misc
- Book Design Shortcuts
Bless. Absolute Goldmine. - Justifying
Type
Also Bless. - Highlighting bad
lines
That trick in indesign to get it to show you which bits are justified weirdly.
💭 Ideation
- Random Icon Generator
Give you a set of randomly selected pictographic icons - Related Words
Searches for words related to your word, sortof like a thesaurus but broader - Perchance Generators
Variety of randomised generators based on lists - Random Word Generator
- Onym
Resource for naming stuff - Rhymezone
Search for words that rhyme - In Different Languages
Lets you search words in dif languages all at once - Behind The Name
- Medieval Names Archive
✍ Art Tutorials
- Gamut Mask and Colour Theory [tumblr post]
- GPose
Lighting dark skinned characters
Tumblr post about lighting in ffxiv that is also just really useful for art in general - Drawing Asian Faces
- Editioning
Prints
(the little bits you write in the bottom corner) - Using Screentones
📝 Writing
- Ellipsus
I've started using this as an alternative to google docs - Stimuwrite 2
My beloved. A lightweight writing program that makes noises when you type. So good for my neurospicy brain. Much better for quick drafts than full documents. PWYW on itch.io - The Neurodivergent Writer’s Guide to Fun and Productivity
- FadeOut Writing gameA fun little game to help writer's block!
- Frantic FanficA fun writing game to play with friends. A twist on the equisite corpse/fantastic cadaver.
🧶 Craft
- Bookbinding tutorial [video] by a lady who is really chill and relaxing to listen to (my friend Ella showed me)
- How to make a piercing cradle [video]
- Antique Pattern Library
- FlosscrossFree cross stitch pattern designer. It even lets you do backstitch!
🌏 Webbed Site bungling
- HTML Tutorials
- CSS Tutorials
- MDN reference of
html elements
- Visual Studio Code
Super helpful for working on an entire webbed site at once 💙 - Live Preview Extension
for Visual Studio
Lets you see your changes in real time