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.
- Photography
- Illustration
- Videos
- Patterns
- Fonts
- Icons
- Colors
- Aggregated Content
- Sounds & Music
- Paid Resources
- How to Contribute
- How to Share
All the resources below have specifically specified that their content is CC0-licensed.
- Barn Images
- Boss Fight! - 10–20 new images added daily.
- CC0 Photo
- Creative Vix
- Crow the Stone
- Cupcake
- Epicantus - Hi-resolution photos added every week.
- Fancy Crave - Two new images added every day.
- FindA.Photo - search through thousands of CC0 photos by keyword and color
- Free Nature Stock
- Free-Images.cc - Free images with WordPress Media Library Plugin
- Furious Camera
- Gratisography
- Jay Mantri
- Jé Shoots
- Life of Pix
- Little Visuals
- Magdeleine
- MMT - New photos by Jeffrey Betts added every week.
- Moveast - This is a journey of a Portuguese guy moving.
- Negative Space - Stock photos added every week.
- Pexels
- Photo Collections
- Photo Crops - Five high resolution photos added every week, sometimes more.
- Pixabay - Stock photos, illustrations, vectors and videos.
- Realistic Shots - 7 new photos added every week.
- Skitter Photo
- Snapwire Snaps - Commissioned photos from 170,000 of the world's most talented photographers.
- SpaceX Photos - Promotional SpaceX stock photography.
- Stock Image Point
- Stocksnap - Hundreds of high resolution images added weekly
- Stokpic
- The Pic Pac - New pacs on Monday, free pics Tuesday - Sunday.
- Travel Coffee Book - Travel photography.
- Unsplash
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 - ©️.
- Death to the Stock Photo - ©️.
- Designer Pics - ©️.
- Foodies Feed - Food based images. ©️.
- Good Stock Photos - ©️.
- ISO Republic - ©️.
- Kaboom Pics - ©️.
- morgueFile - ©️ Free photo archive by creatives, for creatives.
- Pic Jumbo - ©️.
- Picography - ©️.
- Shutteroo - ©️.
- Split Shire - ©️.
- Startup Stock Photos - ©️ Startup based photography.
- Tookapic - ©️ Free listing from Tookapic.
A collection of links to public domain photography resources.
- Flickr Commons - Flickr's catalogue of the worlds public photo archives.
- New Old Stock - Vintage photos from the public archive. of known copyright restrictions.
- Public Domain Archive - New stock photos every single week.
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.
- IM Creator - Some (CC0-licensed) photos. Also includes Website templates and icons.
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - ©️ Graphics and photos of space and spaceflight.
- Raumrot - (CC-BY 2.0) licensed.
- Superfamous - (CC BY 3.0) licensed.
- Women of Color in Tech - (CC Attribution 2.0) Licensed picture from Women of Color in Tech.
These resources haven't specified any formal terms of use or licenses.
- Freejpg - Free image bank for commercial and editorial use.
- Nobl Web - do as you please, high-resolution photos and textures.
- Peekspace - Curated free-to-use space photography.
- Re:splashed
- Refe Real Life Photos
- Trunklog - A collection of photos from photographer Magnus Jälthammar.
A collection of illustration resources which contain a mixture of historical archive, contemporary and public domain assets.
- British Library Illustration Archive - The British Library’s collections on Flickr Commons offer access to millions of public domain images.
- Old Book Illustrations - A massive collection of illustrations from old books.
A selection of websites offering high quality video stock.
A mixture of CSS and image based pattern resources.
- CSS3 Patterns Gallery - CSS3 based repeatable 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.
A mixture of free and open source font resources.
- Brick - Webfonts that actually look good
- Debian Fonts - ©️ TTF fonts from the Debian repositories.
- 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.
- The League of Movable Type - Open-source type foundry.
A collection for SVG and font icon resources which can be used in your interface and website designs.
- Font Awesome - ©️ MIT licensed icon font.
- Fontello - ©️ - Fontello is a tool to quickly pack vector images into webfonts. Also includes a section of stock icons.
- Foundation Icon Fonts 3 - An icon font from Zurb, the people behind the Foundation framework.
- GLYPHICONS - ©️ The free set is released under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) license and require attribution.
- IcoMoon - ©️ Custom built and crisp icon fonts, done right.
- Iconmonstr - ©️ A huge selection of icons in SVG and PNG format.
- Ionicons - ©️ The premium icon font for Ionic Framework. 100% free and open source. MIT Licensed.
A selection of websites offering color schemes.
- Color Hunt - A place to discover, create, and share color palettes.
- Colour Lovers - A creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns.
- Coolors - The super fast color schemes generator for cool designers.
- Flat UI Color Picker - A copy and paste resource for colors commonly found in 'flat' designs.
- Flat UI Colors - Flat color picker which gives you the perfect colors for flat designs.
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.
- Libre Stock - Search engine for stock photo websites.
- Free Loops - ©️ Free loops and audio clip.
- Freesound - ©️ Collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings and bleeps.
- SoundBible - ©️ Thousands of free sound effects, sound clips, and straight up sounds.
And last, but not least, a selection of the best paid stock resources.
- Adobe Stock - Photos, Illustrations, Vectors.
- Fotolia - Photos, Illustrations, Vectors, Videos.
- Shutterstock - Photos, Vectors, Editorial, Footages, Music.
- Stocksy - "Cliché-free" Photos.
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