10 Free Resources for Web Designers, January 2025

Everyone loves to work smarter. This list of free resources for web designers will help you find tools, themes, fonts, and other resources that can make design and development faster and more efficient.

Starting this month, we’ll post a monthly collection of these tools to help you design better. Enjoy!

1. Portfolio X – Free Figma Web Portfolio Template

One of the things that always falls by the wayside for creatives is creating their own portfolio websites. The Portfolio X Figma template will help you get your portfolio finished and published in no time. The design is clean and modern and works with almost any type of portfolio content, including design, photography, and more.

Share your story with this starter for a portfolio website. With built-in features like project galleries, service highlights, and intuitive contact forms, this template ensures seamless navigation and engagement.

Designed with responsiveness and aesthetics in mind, Portfolio X guarantees a flawless user experience across devices. It’s the ultimate solution for freelancers and creatives who want to make a lasting impression and get started quickly.

2. WebSparks

Jumpstart coding, website design, and development with the help of artificial intelligence.

WebSparks is made to transform your ideas into production-ready applications in minutes. The AI turns text, images, and sketches into complete full-stack applications with responsive frontend, robust backend, and optimized databases. Build, deploy, and scale with just a few prompts, plus it includes real-time previews and one-click deployment.

3. Minimox

Create a quick and minimal logo with this free tool. (You don’t even have to sign up.)

The Minimox interface is easy to use with plenty of typefaces, icons, and color elements to mix and match as you create a simple logo style. You can see everything on the screen as a preview as your work, too.

You probably aren’t going to use this logo maker for a full-scale logo design, but it can help with brainstorming and idea generation or help a client visualize colors or styles they like most.

4. Figma iOS 17 UI Kit

The official Apple design kit for Figma includes everything you need, with a comprehensive set of components, views, system interfaces, text styles, color styles, materials, and layout guides. It includes all of the core ingredients you need to create highly realistic iOS and iPadOS app designs quickly.

The kit includes alerts and widgets, home and lock screen templates, notification designs, tabbed app elements, charts, and more. Everything is built with iOS system colors, materials, and text styles, so you can build exactly for current themes and guidelines using Figma.

5. Nitro Free Multipurpose Shopify Theme

The Nitro Shopify theme is made to help create a seamless shopping experience so you can get your online store going quickly. Nitro is designed to accommodate a wide range of online businesses with a modern design, minimalist aesthetic, and specific purpose-built demonstrations. Showcase products in a stylish manner and make it easy for customers to browse, select, and purchase.

You can even import a demo with one-click to get started. (Note: If you need additional help or don’t feel confident about installation, there is a paid option for that also.)

6. PicLooks

PicLooks avatars are free, authentic-looking AI-generated profile pictures for your designs, saving you hours browsing stock photos. With so many phony AI images out there, this tool will help you filter through the noise quickly and with ease. The avatar-style images have a truly realistic look that is great for small, human representations across your design projects.

And the best part? This tool also allows for commercial use, something you don’t get with a lot of other tools. Use sorting and filtering to quickly find exactly the type of face you need for your projects.

7. Git Skyline

This is a super fun little tool that won’t necessarily help you design something but can help you see your impact on the community with all of your Git contributions as 3D models. You can skyline the time frame of your choosing just by entering your username.

Once created, you can download or embed your Git Skyline data visualization to show it off.

8. JSX.Design

JSX.Design is a no-code WYSIWYG editor for React developers, so you can visually build responsive UIs while generating clean JSX code. The tool includes drag-and-drop components, customizable styles, and the ability to sync code in real time.

This tool, which is still in beta, does allow you to create an account and save projects so you can come back to them later for revisions.

9. Dolphines Handwritten Font

A free, fun handwritten typeface can have a lot of practical applications. Dolphines Handwritten Font is a cute option with uppercase, lowercase, punctuation, symbols, and supports multilingual usage. It is suitable for many of your visual needs, like branding materials, merchandise, logos, quotes, posters, and more.

This font is free for personal use, and includes a paid option for commercial applications.

10. Midnight Mirage Font

This display font has interesting lines and curves that feels super creative and visually appealing. Midnight Mirage Font is a rough display font with unique and classic feels. It will be perfectly used for branding, logo design, clothing, posters, magazines, packaging, special events, and other design projects.

The free, demo version is only for personal use.

BONUS: Video of the Month

This YouTube short has perfect tips for website designers with CSS tips every developer should know. The quick style shows what you might be doing compared to what you should be doing. Hopefully, you can take away something super useful that will make your workflows run more smoothly.

Carrie Cousins

Carrie Cousins is a freelance writer with more than 10 years of experience in the communications industry, including writing for print and online publications, and design and editing. You can connect with Carrie on Twitter @carriecousins.