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Free stock photo websites provide the visual content needs of startup entrepreneurs, bloggers, marketers, designers, journalists, and students who barely have the budget for premium photographs.
These image resources are also a good place for photographers and artists to showcase their talent and launch or boost their career.
This comprehensive guide explains image licenses, lists down free stock photo sites, and answers frequently asked questions about copyright.
Creative Commons vs. Public Domain: What is the Difference?
What is Creative Commons?
What is Public Domain?
105 Free Stock Photo and Art Image Websites
34 Free Typography and Fonts Resources
20 Free Clipart Resources
10 Free Infographic Makers
10 Free Infographic Template Resources
Frequently Asked Questions About Stock Image Copyright
What is Copyright?
What Happens When Copyright is Violated?
Who May be Sued For Copyright Infringement?
Can I Resell Public Domain Pictures?
What Does "Commercial Use" Really Mean?
Creative Commons vs. Public Domain: What is the Difference?
Before using any stock photo website, it is important to understand the two commonly used licenses: Creative Commons and public domain.
What is Creative Commons?
Creative Commons refers to copyright licenses that simplify how content creators assign rights and restrictions to their images.
As this blog post puts it, a Creative Commons license "helps you communicate to the world on how you would want your image to be used."
Here are the six main Creative Commons (CC) licenses and their meaning:
CC BY – The most generous of all licenses, it allows using and changing the image even for commercial purpose. It requires attribution to the copyright holder.
CC BY-SA – Having the same terms with CC BY, this license has an additional requirement: If any change is made to the image, it must be licensed under the same terms as the original.
CC BY-ND – The image is free for commercial and non-commercial use, as long as the creator is properly credited. It can only be published without any change to the material.
CC BY-NC – This license has the same terms with CC BY, except that it bans using the image commercially.
CC BY-NC-SA – Having the same terms with CC BY-NC, this license has an additional requirement: If any change is made to the image, it must be licensed under the same terms as the original.
CC BY-NC-ND – The most restrictive of all licenses, it only allows users to download and share an image with appropriate credit. Modifications and commercial use are prohibited.
What is Public Domain?
Public domain, also referred to as Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, is a license in which the creator waives all rights to his or her work under copyright laws. This means a public domain image is free for commercial use without attribution and asking permission from the creator.
105 Free Stock Photo and Art Image Websites
The stock photo sites listed below offer free photos under the public domain or CC0 license for personal and commercial use, unless specified otherwise. This list also includes free stock photo aggregators and resources for historical and art images.
The "1 million" refers to the website's goal: to put 100 amateur photos daily into the public domain for the next 30 years, for a total of 1,095,000.
An easy way to get free high-resolution photos, ABSFreePic.com does not require any registration, attribution, and permission to use its images.
3. Albumarium
All images here are licensed under CC BY 2.0, so giving proper credit to the photographer is required.
AllTheFreeStock.com is a digital library of images from various free stock photo websites, including EveryPixel, Pixabay, and Unsplash.
A great resource for historians and genealogists, this free image archive features over 35,000 prints, portraits, maps, and artifacts from the 17th to 19th century. All images are free for non-commercial use only, requiring a link back to the website.
This is a photo collection of different bird, mammal, primate, and rodent species. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 or CC BY-SA 2.0, each image on Animal Photos! requires attribution.
7. AVOPIX
Home to over 150,000 free stock images, AVOPIX allows downloading a picture without registration.
8. Bara-Art
This site contains free high-resolution photos from Bara Cross, a designer based in Brno, Czech Republic.
9. Barnimages
The creators of Barnimages, Latvian photographers Igor Trepeshchenok and Roman Drits, provide "non-stock" photos that redefine stock photography. Although their images are free for personal and commercial use, they are not under the CC0 license, which means the copyright belongs only to the photographer.
10. BigFoto
This free photo site has a sitemap (instead of a search bar) that sorts images according to location and theme. BigFoto offers all photos for commercial use, in return for linking back to the site.
11. BucketListly
Thai travel blogger Pete Rojwongsuriya has published on his blog 7,000+ pictures shot in over 60 countries worldwide. His travel photos are free for non-commercial use only. Giving appropriate credit and linking back are required when using a photo from the blog.
12. Burst
Created by e-commerce company Shopify, Burst offers thousands of free stock photos that entrepreneurs can use for their websites and marketing campaigns. The images are under the CC0 license or Shopify’s own photo license.
13. CC Search
A Creative Commons project, CC Search is a repository of over nine million photos from 500px, Flickr, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Europeana, and Rijksmuseum. Some images are public domain; others have CC BY 2.0 license.
14. Cepolina
Cepolina is a collection of 20,000+ photos shot mostly in America, China, India, and Europe, with themes such as art, nature, food, vehicles, technology, people, and objects.
To access free photos monthly via email, users need to sign up as a member. Death to The Stock Photo has its own image license.
16. DryIcons
Made for web developers and small design companies, the site's icons, website templates, and vector graphics are free to use under DryIcons' own license, which requires a link back to the site.
17. Cupcake
Sweden-based Jonas Wimmerström makes his high-resolution photos available under the CC0 license on his free stock photo site.
This site features stock photos with themes such as business, food, architecture, wildlife, and more. Jeshu John, an artist based in Kochi, India, took the photographs.
19. Dreamstime
Dreamstime prides itself in being the world's biggest stock photography community with more than 19 million users and 86 million photos, illustrations, clip arts, and vectors. To download photos, a user needs to register for a free account.
20. Epicantus
Built by visual and UX designer Daria Nepriakhina, Epicantus has a wealth of high-resolution photos that startups can use for blog posts, mockups, and landing pages.
Europeana allows access to over 50 million digitized artworks, artifacts, and other items with art, music, fashion, photography, and more as themes. The collections come from European museums such as the Louvre and libraries such as the British Library.
Some images can be used for free, as they are released under the CC0 or CC BY-SA license. However, others are copyright-protected and cannot be reused.
22. Everypixel
Everypixel is a search engine that compiles over 1.5 million images from 22 free stock photo sites, including Pixabay, StockSnap.io, and Picjumbo. It features an image reverse search and customized search filters that allow finding photos based on color, orientation, image type, etc.
Like Everypixel, everystockphoto.com is a search engine for finding free stock images from multiple sources all over the internet. It indexes about 30 million images under 10 free licenses.
24. Fancycrave
Fancycrave helps small businesses, bloggers, designers, digital marketers, and students find suitable photos for their mockups, blog posts, newsletters, and other projects.
25. FindA.Photo
This website sources about 10,000 pictures from various free stock photo sites such as Barnimages, Startup Stock Photos, and Unsplash. Photos can be searched by color, category (aerial, bokeh, landscapes, long-exposure, etc.), and source.
26. Focus Fitness
This fitness site, with a page dedicated to free stock photos, is ideal for fitness bloggers who need pictures of people exercising and eating healthy.
27. FoodieFactor
FoodieFactor collects more than 1,200 free food and drink stock photos and makes them available to everyone, especially food bloggers.
28. Foodiesfeed
FoodiesFeed is another free stock food photography resource that food bloggers and enthusiasts must check out. Thousands of mouthwatering, high-resolution food photos can be downloaded for free.
29. Foter
Calling itself as the "most popular public domain stock photo site," Foter offers 335 million free Creative Commons-licensed images with themes such as art, business, nature, and vintage.
30. WorldImages
With about 100,000 photos from the California State University IMAGE Project, the WorldImages database is a valuable resource for students and faculty. Because the images are under the CC BY-NC 2.5 license, they are free for educational and non-commercial use with proper attribution.
Free Nature Stock offers pictures of waters, sunset, mountains, plants, skies, and trees shot by Adrian Pelletier. He adds a new photo almost daily to his free photo site.
This website provides stock images without registration, but the free ones have only a small size (400 x 300 px) and require attribution. Larger versions without attribution can be downloaded for a fee starting at US$ 5.
33. Freely Photos
Spiritual bloggers, small businesses selling Christian merchandise, and churches will find this free stock image site useful. Photo collections include prayer, worship, bible, Easter, Christmas, and men's and women's ministry.
34. FreeMediaGoo.com
Made by a developer for developers, FreeMediaGoo.com has free stock photos and illustrations on categories such as aviation, beach, food, finance, building, and animals.
35. FreePhotosBank
This online resource provides easy access to free photos without registration. But it requires giving credit to the photographer and prohibits modifications on images.
36. FreePhotos.cc
A good place to find Creative Commons-licensed photos, FreePhotos.cc collates free images from various sources such as Burst, Little Visuals, and Foodiesfeed for easy preview and download.
37. Freepik
Freepik caters to designers who need free photos, vectors, icons, and other graphics for designing websites, banners, and magazines. Most images are free for commercial use. Proper credit must be given to the creator.
38. Freerange Stock
All images on this site, licensed under Equalicense, come from Freerange Stock's in-house photographers and contributions from a photography community.
39. Freestocks.org
Offering something different from traditional stock photography, Freestocks.org features fresh and updated images captured by its team of photographers and contributors.
40. Glyphs
With over a thousand photos, this site features mostly travel and home & garden photos. Images are free to download without registration. But to embed a photo on a website, a user needs to sign up for an account.
41. Good Free Photos
Over 25,000 high-resolution, copyright-free, and royalty-free photos can be downloaded for free. The site sorts images by location for travel photos and species for plant and animal photos.
A digital marketer and web designer named Steven created this site containing his free stock photos. Each photo has a short yet detailed description.
43. Gratisography
Gratisography aims to be "the world's quirkiest collection of free high-resolution pictures," offering copyright-free photos that cannot be found elsewhere. Ryan McGuire—an artist, designer, and photographer—founded the site and provided all its photos.
44. HubSpot
HubSpot is better known as a digital marketing platform, but it also dabbles in free stock photography. Its compilation of 550+ photos, mostly business and holiday-themed, are free to use for marketing campaigns. To access HubSpot's stock photos, one needs to sign up via email.
45. IM Free
More than just a stock photo site, IM Free provides web designers, developers, and small businesses with curated images, templates, and icons for website building. Although everything is free for commercial use, attribution is required for some photos.
46. ImageFinder
Another stock photo aggregator on this list, ImageFinder gathers and displays almost 20,000 Creative Commons-licensed images from various free photo sites such as Good Free Photos and Picjumbo.
48. ISO Republic
Thousands of CC0-licensed images are available for creative professionals to download for free. The creators of ISO Republic are the same people behind the stock food photo site FoodieFactor.
48. Iwaria
Iwaria makes it possible to discover the real Africa through free photos of African people, landscapes, food, and animals.
49. Jay Mantri
Although Jay Mantri rarely publishes new photos nowadays, his image archive is still a good source of free travel, landscape, architecture, and food photos.
50. JESHOOTS.com
Prague-based web designer Jan Vašek founded JESHOOTS.com to share free stock photos and mockups for personal and commercial use. Every image comes with descriptive captions.
51. Kaboompics
Created by a graphic designer, website builder, and photographer named Karolina, Kaboompics features over 8,000 free stock images, the most popular of which are related to lifestyle and interior design.
52. Large Photos
As its name suggests, Large Photos is a resource for anyone who needs high-quality images for large-size printing. The stock photos come from its in-house photographers and contributions from its photography community.
53. LibreStock
This search engine allows free and quick access to 48,000+ images from popular stock photography websites such as Pexels, StockSnap.io, and Gratisography.
54. Life of Pix
Life of Pix features CC0-licensed, high-resolution photos from its community of photographers. Every week, the site is updated with a new set of stock photos.
55. Little Visuals
Little Visuals' creator passed away in 2013, so the site is no longer updated. Still, it is a great source of stunning landscape photos, captured mostly in England and Germany.
56. Magdeleine
This free stock photo website features beautiful, high-resolution images of nature, cities, people, animals, and more. All photos are licensed under CC0 or CC BY-SA.
57. MMT
MMT is short for Moment, a free stock photography site featuring nature, cities, landscapes, food, and macro shots. The site's creator, New York-based UI/UX designer Jeffrey Betts, captured all the high-resolution pictures.
58. Moni's Photo
A photographer named Moni shares her collection of CC0-licensed, high-resolution photos, mostly of nature, architecture, and food. Flatlays, bokeh, and other photography techniques can also be found here.
59. Morguefile
Morguefile serves as a platform for community-based free photo exchange. It features more than 350,000 free stock images shot by amateur and professional photographers.
60. Moveast
Created by Portuguese designer João Pacheco, Moveast is filled with free breathtaking travel pictures shot in various locations, including Portugal, Spain, South Korea, and Indonesia.
61. MyStockPhotos
This free stock photography site compiles over 500 pictures of people, buildings, animals, flowers, and landscapes.
62. nappy
To improve the representation of black and brown people in media, nappy provides free high-resolution pictures of this underrepresented group. It features black and brown people doing what others normally do—working, eating, traveling, and enjoying hobbies.
The National Gallery of Art has a digital collection of over 5,000 artworks—including paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs—that are free to use as long as credit is given to the artist.
64. NegativeSpace
This free stock photo website is a platform for photographers to gain exposure for their work by sharing their images under the CC0 license.
65. New Old Stock
New Old Stock is a great source of copyright-free vintage pictures. Each photo comes with a link to the original Flickr post, so the user can check its Creative Commons license.
66. New York Public Library Digital Gallery
The online gallery has more than 700,000 digitized art and cultural items from the New York Public Library. To access copyright-free photos, choose “Show Only Public Domain” on the Browse page.
67. Openphoto.net
An online image sharing platform, Openphoto.net contains Creative Commons-licensed photos that require attribution to photographer Michael Jastremski.
68. Pexels
One of the popular free stock photo websites today, Pexels offers free CC0-licensed images for personal and commercial use.
69. PhotoPin
PhotoPin compiles Creative Commons-licensed photos into one place. Designed for bloggers, the site makes it easy to download photos and give credit to the owner. Each photo is available in a wide range of sizes.
70. PhotoStockEditor
This free stock photography site contains high-quality, public-domain images of animals, nature, people, gadgets, food, and drinks.
71. Picjumbo
The website was born after photographer and designer Viktor Hanacek got rejections from various stock photo sites due to quality issues. Picjumbo now boasts of having millions of downloads since its launch.
72. Pickupimage
Most photos here are landscapes, seascapes, sunset, and architecture. The stock photo site also includes more than 2,000 clip arts and icons.
73. PicMelon
PicMelon hosts curated copyright-free photos for bloggers and designers. Themes include animals, food and drink, nature, technology, and holidays.
74. Picography
A go-to source of free high-resolution images, Picography features nature, wildlife, and street photography.
75. Pixabay
One of the most popular free stock photo sites today, Pixabay has more than 1.5 million images, illustrations, and vectors. Users can filter their search according to camera models and photographers. A free registration is required for downloading full-sized images and uploading files.
76. Pond5
Pond5, an online marketplace for filmmakers and other content creators, has a page dedicated to free, public domain photos. However, most image sizes for the free versions are rather small.
Hosting over 200,000 CC0-licensed stock photos, Public Domain Pictures allows free access to images with a decent size. Access to full-sized photos requires a registration and a fee.
78. Rawpixel
Rawpixel offers free and paid photos, vectors, and mockups for personal and/or commercial use. Up to 100 images can be downloaded for free in a month. Unlimited downloads cost $5 monthly for personal use and $29 for commercial use.
79. Realistic Shots
A catalog of free, high-resolution stock images for personal and commercial use, this site is a great source of nature, architecture, people, and travel photos.
80. Reshot
Reshot sets itself apart by providing unique, "non-stocky" photos for editorial and commercial use. The free images come from individual contributors and photography communities.
81. Rgbstock.com
Launched in 2010, this free stock photo site now has 100,000+ images and 400,000+ registered users. It also has a helpful forum section where people can chat and seek help regarding photography.
82. ShotStash
StockStash creators aim to provide carefully handpicked free stock photos for personal and commercial use. Every image has a short description that makes identifying its location or items easy.
83. Shutteroo
Australian web designer and photography enthusiast Klaye Morrison shares her photos for free through this stock photo site.
84. Skitterphoto
Skitterphoto features captivating shots from two photographers in the Netherlands, Rudy Rudy van der Veen and Peter Heeling.
85. Skuawk
The CC0-licensed, high-resolution photos from Skuawk come in themes such as landscape, business, people, music, and sports. They can be downloaded for free without registration.
86. Slon.pics
Cyprus-based graphic designer and photographer Kirill M shares his photos and illustrations that are free for personal and commercial use.
87. Snapwire Snaps
Snapwire Snaps lets users search for copyright-free stock photos. It also has a paid service where brands, agencies, and companies can request custom visual content for their marketing campaigns.
88. Splashbase
A search engine for free photos, Splashbase sources images from popular stock photo sites such as Unsplash, Skitterphoto, Gratisography, and MMT.
89. SplitShire
SplitShire allows easy access to almost 1,000 free stock photos without registration. It features abstract, automotive, fashion, food, street, nature, and other kinds of photography.
901. Startup Stock Photos
This free stock photo site features images of people working, making them suitable for tech startups, websites, and blogs.
91. Stock Up
Built by web designer and developer Steve Benjamins, Stock Up aggregates almost 30,000 stock photos from 30+ free photo sites, including Burst, Free Nature Stock, and JESHOOTS.com.
With more than 100,000 free stock photos, this website gets stills from the HD videos of its parent site VideoBlocks.com and high-resolution pictures from professional photographers.
93. StockSnap.io
A well-known resource in the stock photography world, StockSnap.io features an easy-to-use search function and a huge collection of high-quality images.
94. Stockvault.net
This site collects and displays more than 120,000 free stock photos, vectors, and graphics by and for photographers, designers, and students. The images are released under a public domain, commercial, or non-commercial license.
95. Stokpic
Photographer Ed Gregory makes his shots available for personal and commercial use through his stock photo site. A few images are licensed under CC0, while the rest carry Stokpic's own license with several restrictions.
96. StreetWill.co
Like New Old Stock, StreetWill.co offers free vintage photos, mostly of people, buildings, landscapes, and seascapes.
97. Styled Stock
Featuring chic and girly images, Styled Stock caters to female entrepreneurs who need stylish stock photos for their business website or blog. Most of the free images show beauty products and fashion items.
This site is a great source of stunning, high-resolution travel photos from across the world. They are all free for personal and commercial use.
99. Trunklog.com
This website showcases free stock photos by Magnus Jälthammar that he hardly ever uses.
As the name implies, the stock photos, vectors, and videos on Unrestrictedstock.com are copyright-free and royalty-free.
101. Unsplash
Unsplash has more than half a million high-quality stock photos—with more added daily—from over 90,000 photographers.
102. Visual Hunt
Visual Hunt curates 300,000+ Creative Commons-licensed and 100,000+ public-domain stock photos from various online sources such as Flickr.
103. Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons has one of the biggest stock photo collections, with more than 49 million free media files from contributors worldwide.
34 Free Typography and Fonts Resources
High-quality fonts for a vast array of design projects can be downloaded for free from popular typography websites and independent curated font collections. Even if they can be used for free, fonts come with different restrictions. Designers should check the website's or software's End User License Agreement (EULA) to know what is allowed or not when using the fonts.
1. 1001 Fonts
Looking for free fonts for commercial use? Designers can get more than 40,000 fonts for Windows, Mac, and Linux from 1001 Fonts. A variety of free fonts available for download include retro, quirky, handwriting, Asian, calligraphy, and more. There are also fonts for special occasions like wedding, birthdays, and parties.
More than 21,000 unique and visually appealing fonts can be downloaded from 1001FreeDownloads for free and used for personal and commercial purposes.
This easy-to-use tool allows users to find free fonts for personal and commercial use. Choose from a wide range of categories, including 3D, handwriting, minimalist, calligraphy, horror, and more.
4. Acid Fonts
Acid Fonts is a collection of free downloadable fonts and dingbats for Windows and Mac. Mac users need to convert the fonts first before they can use the downloaded fonts. Font categories include retro, sci-fi, Halloween, 3D, Valentine's, Christmas, and more.
5. Adobe Fonts
The Adobe Fonts collection is part of all Creative Cloud subscription plans. Creative Cloud subscribers can choose from unlimited fonts that are licensed for personal or commercial use—at no extra charge.
6. Artill Fonts
Artill is relatively a new foundry run by Germany-based art director and illustrator Lukas Bischoff. His simple website offers free fonts for non-commercial use only. Users need to share the font before they can download it.
7. Befonts
Stunning typefaces for personal use are available for download on this site. There's an option to donate to the font's creator.
8. Behance
Online portfolio website Behance offers a wealth of free fonts for a variety of uses—ranging from graphic design and branding to calligraphy—from designers around the world.
Independent font creators around the world share their work on this online marketplace for design assets. Every week, Creative Market provides freebies that include a font available for free within a certain time period.
10. CreativeBooster
This graphic resource provider for designers curate templates, mockups, and fonts and make them available online for free. More than 4,000 free fronts can be downloaded through this site.
11. DaFont
This frills-free typography resource has a collection of public domain, demo version, freeware, and shareware fonts for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Fonts in a variety of themes are available for download: decorative, retro, Asian, Western, Gothic, graffiti, and more.
12. Font Squirrel
If you need fonts that are 100% free for commercial use, this is the best online typography resource to rely on. Font Squirrel curates free fonts and presents them in a format that's easy to use. It also has a helpful Font Identifier tool that allows you to upload an image of a typeface to see the fonts that match.
13. Fontasy
Over a thousand free fonts for Windows and Mac are available to download from this typography website. For easy navigation, users can search free fonts by sorting them alphabetically, by styles, or by designers.
14. FontBundles.net
This typography website sells premium fonts, but it has a free font section that allows users to download fonts at no cost, as long as they register for an account. A new free font is uploaded on the site every week.
15. Fontfabric
Most of the fonts on this website are available for purchase, but a handful of others can be downloaded for free.
16. Fontspace
Fontspace has over 45,000 fonts and 10 million glyphs from over 2,000 designers around the world. The fonts can be downloaded free of charge, classified either for personal or commercial use. You can choose from a broad array of fonts, from vintage to modern and futuristic, from basic to fun and trendy, and more.
17. FontStruct
A free tool for creating fonts using geometrical shapes, FontStruct encourages its community members to share their work for others to download and use for free. This is a great place not just to get free fonts but also develop your font-building skills as a designer.
18. FontZone
More than 50,000 free fonts in a wide variety of categories are available to download from this typography website.
Free Design Resources provides free and high-quality fonts, graphics, mockups, and templates created by professional designers around the world. The free fonts come with personal use license only. If you wish to use a font for a commercial project, you'll need to download its full version for a fee.
What's great about this typography resource is its description for each font, which helps beginners figure out which font fits their project, whether for logo, branding, poster, or print design.
This no-frills website makes it easy for designers to find the perfect free font to use. Fonts are sorted according to license: free for commercial use, free for personal use, shareware, public domain, donationware, and demo version. If you need to find a free font under a certain category, you can easily find one here. The wide range of font categories includes basic, games, TV/movie-inspired, calligraphy, cartoon, sci-fi, and more.
Founded by Ivan Gladkikh, the Free Fonts Project aims to make typography more known and accessible to more users. Over 50 fonts from various designers are available to download for free. The free fonts can be used for personal and commercial purposes without any restrictions.
22. Freebiesbug
This valuable online resource for web and graphic designers is a collection of website templates, mockups, stock photos, and of course, fonts—all available for free. You can find more than 400 free fonts here.
23. Freedesignfile
For quirky fonts, a great place to find them is Freedesignfile.com, which features almost 400 fonts that are free to download.
24. GLUK Fonts
Polish designer Gluksza shares free fonts with OpenFontLicense on this site. The fonts are free for commercial use. They can be copied, modified, and redistributed, as long as the fonts aren't sold by themselves.
25. Google Fonts
Google Fonts is the free web font hosting service of Google. All the 900+ fonts in this open-source platform can be used for both personal and commercial purposes on desktop, print, and websites.
26. Jeff Schreiber
Based in the Netherlands, Jeff Schreiber provides free samples of his typeface designs on his website. Fonts for personal or commercial use are available for a fee.
27. Lost Type
To get free fonts from Lost Type, choose the "Pay What You Want" option and enter "$0" as the amount. Free fonts can be used for personal purposes only. Fonts for commercial use are available for a fee.
28. MyFonts
MyFonts have a wide range of fonts available for purchase. However, it offers 24 font families for free. To download the free fonts, you'll have to provide your email address. The other useful tool on this typography website is WhatTheFont that identifies a font used for a brand logo or an ad campaign. Users simply upload an image of a typeface, and the online tool will find the best match for the font in the image.
29. Neogrey
This typography resource is a collection of design assets by Ivan Filipov, a Bulgarian graphic, logo, and web designer. You'll find display and vector typefaces that are available for free download.
30. Prototypo
Designers who need to create their own custom font or learn a new design skill may find Prototypo a useful tool. It offers free and paid plans that allow users to design fonts in just a few clicks and tweak every letter in real-time.
31. The League of Movable Type
One of the pioneers of open-source typography, The League of Movable Type offers free fonts—the most popular ones being the Ostrich Sans and Raleway, each with more than a million downloads.
32. Typedepot
Typedepot is a small design studio based in Bulgaria. Its website offers fonts for download at no cost or for purchase.
33. UrbanFonts
This typography website is a collection of more than 8,000 free fonts, most of which are freeware. Some of the fonts are either linkware or shareware. Free dingbats are also available for download.
34. WeGraphics
WeGraphics is an online community and marketplace for designers that offers both free and premium graphics resources. Among the freebies on its site are its 20 free fonts from community members. Each font comes with a brief description, so users know if it's fit for their creative project.
20 Free Clipart Resources
Clipart may be slowly becoming obsolete in the graphic arts industry, but the internet still has plenty of clipart resources for anyone who needs simple images for presentations.
Here are 20 free clipart websites where designers, students, and teachers can source clipart images. Be sure to check the terms of use of each website before downloading images.
This free clipart website mainly caters to pre-school teachers, but the images can be used by just anyone. More than 10,000 free clipart items in 300 categories are available for download.
1001FreeDownloads provides access to over 50,000 free clipart images that can be downloaded for both personal and commercial use.
More than 21,000 vector clipart items are free to download from this website. The images are free for commercial use with attribution to their creator or All-free-download.com.
4. ArtVex
More than 10,000 original clipart items are available for download on this website. Choose from a wide range of categories, including art, animals, icons, music, sports, and more.
This site offers more than 100,000 clipart images for educational use. The images have watermarks, though, which should not be removed. For personal and commercial uses, membership is required.
6. ClipArt ETC
A free clipart resource for classroom use, ClipArt ETC consists of more than 70,000 educational clipart collections. Students and teachers may download up to 50 clipart pieces for one non-commercial school project without the need for permission.
This free clipart website has a varied catalog of cute clipart pieces for personal use only.
8. ClipartPal
ClipartPal has a section dedicated to public domain clipart images that can be used for both personal and commercial purposes.
Over 178,000 free clipart pieces in a wide assortment of categories (humor, animals, fantasy, sports, etc.) can be easily downloaded from this site. Registration is not required.
10. Clker.com
Clipart images on Clker.com are in the public domain, which means anyone can download and use them for free.
11. FreePNGImg.com
Built by a small team of graphic designers, FreePNGimg.com is home to over 50,000 clipart and icons in PNG format for personal use only. Some of the images are curated from the internet. All images come with Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.
FriendlyStock is a royalty-free stock image provider. Its website has a free clipart section where anyone can download clipart images for personal, commercial, editorial, and educational use. Attribution is optional.
All the clipart images on this online resource are completely free for personal and commercial use. The only restriction is that the images cannot be used as part of a logo or any type of commercial branding. Images from HassleFreeClipart.com can be downloaded in various formats, including JPG, PNG, GIF, EPS, and PSD.
As the site's name suggests, all its 25,000+ clipart images are in the public domain, which means they're free to download for commercial use without requiring an attribution. No registration is required, too.
15. Vecteezy
Vecteezy boasts of being the world's biggest vector graphics community, with more than 150,000 royalty-free clipart and vector graphics available for personal and commercial use.
16. Vector Portal
Over 2,000 free stock vectors and clipart items are downloadable from this online resource. They can be used for commercial purposes with attribution required. The images are mostly in EPS and AI formats.
17. Vector4Free
Free vector arts for personal use can be downloaded from Vector4Free. The images—available in PDF, SVG, AI, EPS, and other formats—come from various designers around the world.
This website offers free clipart, vectors, and animations without the annoying pop-ups. There's no need to sign up for an account to download its collection. Clipart themes include holidays, occasions, animals, nature, and more.
19. WPClipart
All the 80,000+ clipart images on this website are in the public domain, so they can be used for both personal and commercial purposes. They're fit for office presentations, school reports, book illustrations, and more.
Free Infographic Tools and Resources
Anyone can easily create and share beautiful and even interactive infographics in 10 to 30 minutes with the help of free infographic tools. These websites have fully customizable templates where users can add design elements such as images, icons, maps, diagrams, and more to visualize data better.
For beginners and those with no design knowledge, here are 10 of the most useful free tools for building infographics.
10 Free Infographic Makers
1. Animaker
Animaker takes pride in being the first video infographics maker in the world. Its built-in library has all the tools needed to build an animated infographic: charts, icons, characters, scenes, maps, and images. This online tool also comes with animated templates for infographics. For the tool to work, Flash Player must be enabled on the computer.
2. Biteable
Another free video infographic tool on this list is Biteable, which makes the task quick and easy even for newbies. Signing up for a free account is required. Users may either start from scratch or choose from infographic video templates to edit. Its library features plenty of animation and live action scenes, icons, stock footage, soundtracks, and fonts. Once the infographic is done, it can be shared on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.
3. Canva
Besides being a popular online design tool, Canva is also a handy infographic maker for anyone, with or without design skills. It has a wide variety of professionally designed templates, plus a library of two million stock photos, icons, and illustrations. Infographics are easy to customize, as users can upload their own images and logos, as well as change the backgrounds, fonts, and colors. They can also be downloaded, embedded on a website or blog, or shared on social media. To start using Canva, users need to register for a free account.
4. Easelly
Create stunning infographics is simple with Easelly. Users can directly choose and modify a template without having to sign up for an account (though there's an option on the website for an account registration). It's an ideal tool to use for team collaborations, as it enables users to invite other team members to edit an infographic on the site. Easelly also allows downloading, embedding on a website, or sharing finished infographics for free.
Google Charts is not the typical free infographic maker—it connects and helps visualize data in real time. This unique feature allows users not just to customize their charts but also convert them into an interactive dashboard.
6. Kartograph
For designers and data journalists, Kartograph is a great online design tool for building interactive map-based infographics that work with all major browsers. No need to use Google Maps or any other mapping service, as it has two libraries for creating beautiful maps.
7. Lucidpress
A cloud-based infographic development tool, Lucidpress has free infographic templates to choose from. Users simply drag and drop text, media files, and other design elements into their chosen template for customization.
8. Piktochart
Like other free infographic tools, Piktochart offers templates, color schemes, and thousands of icons and images needed for making a visually appealing infographic. But what sets it apart from others is that infographics made through this site are SEO-friendly. It allows Google and other search engines to find and make sense of the infographic's content. Infographics can be downloaded in multiple file formats such as JPG, PNG, and PDF.
9. Snappa
Snappa is a free infographic maker with functionalities that premium plans provide. The only restriction is that free users can download only five times per month. The tool enables non-designers to easily create infographics for blogs, social media, and ads with its large, free library consisting of over one million high-resolution stock photos, 100,000+ vectors and shapes, and 200+ fonts.
Infographics can be shared on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media channels and can be resized into a Facebook cover, Twitter header, Pinterest pin, etc.
10. Visme
Digital marketers will find Visme the perfect tool for building engaging infographics that will complement their campaigns. Aside from the usual stock photos, icons, and graphics, Visme's library features interactive maps, diagrams, and flowcharts that can be used to build infographics with animations, pop-ups, and links. Finished infographics can be either downloaded for offline use or shared online. Visme also provides insights on who is viewing and engaging with an infographic to help marketers monitor and track its engagement.
10 Free Infographic Template Resources
Designers who want to create infographics offline may download pre-made templates and edit them. Here are 10 websites for downloading free infographic templates:
1. Blugraphic
Blugraphic is a collection of graphic resources to help designers complete their projects. A couple of free infographic templates can be downloaded from the site. To get the download link via email, entering an email address is required.
CreativeBooster's collection of infographic vector templates includes the most commonly used elements for infographics such as pie charts, world map, timelines, and more. The package is downloadable via email, which contains files in SVG, EPS, and AI formats.
3. Designxel
Designxel.com is a search engine that graphic and web designers can use to find a selection of design assets for their creative projects, including infographics. It has more than 400 free infographics templates in various themes.
4. Edraw
Edraw is a diagram software provider that sells infographic software for Windows, Mac, and Linux. On its website, it provides more than 50 editable infographic templates that can be downloaded in PDF and EDDX formats for free. Templates are sorted into various themes: business, medical, education, environment, food, transportation, social life, map-based, marketing, sports, travel and tourism, science and technology, festival, architecture, and media and news.
5. Free Vector Graphic Download
This free online resource provides more than 400 free infographic vector templates in various designs and themes. The templates are for non-commercial use only and are mostly in EPS format.
6. Freepik
Freepik's graphic resources include over 60,000 templates for creating infographics, with designs ranging from minimalist to fun and sophisticated.
7. HubSpot
HubSpot offers 15 customizable infographic templates in PowerPoint plus five in Illustrator. All the templates are free to download in exchange for filling out the information requested in an online form.
This free PowerPoint library offers nearly 200 fully customizable templates for infographics. The templates are free for personal, educational, and commercial use. Attribution is required.
9. Vecteezy
Vecteezy has over 100,000 infographic templates that are free to use personally and commercially with attribution required. The editable templates can be downloaded in multiple formats: JPG, SVG, AI, and EPS.
10. ZippyPixels
ZippyPixels is composed of web and graphic designers who aim to provide high-quality yet affordable graphics resources such as mockups, icons, logo designs, and templates for websites, email, and infographics. Its website's infographic section contains a mix of free and paid templates.
Frequently Asked Questions About Stock Image Copyright
1. What is Copyright?
Copyright is a legal protection that provides the rights of a creator to an original work. Copyright laws exist in many countries to protect their citizens' intellectual property.
2. What Happens When Copyright is Violated?
The creator may file a lawsuit and demand monetary damages against liable parties due to copyright infringement.
3. Who May be Sued For Copyright Infringement?
For any violation of image copyright, the following people are usually held liable:
The person who stole the image, whether intentional or not
People who authorized the copyright infringement such as the editor and manager
The person who published the image, with or without knowledge of the infringement
Other people involved in the infringement
4. Can I Resell Public Domain Pictures?
Just because an image is licensed under the public domain does not mean its use has no limits. Selling public domain pictures is one of them.
Other restrictions on public domain or CC0-licensed image use include the following:
Claiming the image as one's own work
Implying or stating any kind of endorsement by the creator or any brand or person shown in the image
Using the image for unlawful purposes such as crime, pornography, prostitution, and sale or promotion of illegal drugs
5. What Does "Commercial Use" Really Mean?
Even Creative Commons has no clear-cut guidelines on what constitutes commercial use. It just states that images with non-commercial licenses cannot be used for "commercial advantage or monetary compensation."
It is best to ask the copyright holders or free stock photo website owners to clarify what they allow when using their image commercially.
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