Ask HN: Where do you guys find graphics for your side projects

jameswyse · on Nov 2, 2012

You'd be amazed what you can do with pure CSS these days, however there's loads of sites out there offering stuff for free. Here are a few of my favourites..

http://ui-cloud.com/ (Search engine for UI graphics)

http://subtlepatterns.com/ (Patterns for backgrounds)

http://www.dinpattern.com/ (Patterns for backgrounds)

http://365psd.com/

http://www.premiumpixels.com/

http://www.designkindle.com/

http://designmoo.com/everyone/

You can also search on Dribbble.com for terms like 'free' or 'psd' as there's a lot of talented, generous people on there!

Be sure to read the licence of anything you download from these sites, often the author requires attribution or doesn't allow their use on commercial products.

bmelton · on Nov 2, 2012

Great comment -- I would also add http://iconfinder.com/ to the list (made by another YCer), especially as it allows me to filter icon searches by license.

jameswyse · on Nov 3, 2012

Oh that's a great one, cheers!

I'm also quite fond of http://icomoon.io/ - There's a lot of decent free fonts but the real beauty is that you can add your own icons and create a custom font with just the ones you need!

iconfinder · on Nov 6, 2012

If you by YCer mean Hacker news member, then yes. We haven't joined YC (got into 500 startups, though).

Thanks!

bmelton · on Nov 6, 2012

That is indeed what I meant. Sorry for the mixup.

iman453 · on Nov 2, 2012

Thanks so much! That's a great collection :)

johnmurch · on Nov 2, 2012

FREE http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ http://ajkochanowicz.github.com/Kickstrap/

Paid https://wrapbootstrap.com http://www.mojo-themes.com

louisa · on Nov 5, 2012

Bootstrap is awesome!

iman453 · on Nov 2, 2012

Thanks!

MyraMains · on Nov 2, 2012

These are not free, but very good quality for a low price.

http://graphicriver.net/ http://themeforest.net/ http://3docean.net/

iman453 · on Nov 2, 2012

They look really good, thank you :)

numbnuts · on Nov 3, 2012

Icon fonts are awesome.

http://glyphicons.com/ (Paid if you want formats other than png)

http://www.justbenicestudio.com/studio/websymbols/

http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/

Found this directory of resources in my designer brother's bookmarks: http://skout.co.za/. Not sure how updated it is though.

dave84 · on Nov 2, 2012

http://thenounproject.com/ for Icons.

countessa · on Nov 6, 2012

the noun project is awesome much kudos to them

eytanlevit · on Nov 3, 2012

If you are looking for background images(e.g. I just need a photo of a baby) - I generally use flickr.

Make sure to use the advanced search and select the "Find content to use commercially" option - and also don't forget to link back to the creators of images you use.

mion · on Nov 3, 2012

You should definitely take a look at Twitter Bootstrap: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

It helps you get a decent (actually way more than decent) looking UI in no time.

fsethi · on Nov 11, 2012

Medialoot:

http://medialoot.com/

Amazing place to get (simple) icons:

http://thenounproject.com/

JacksonGariety · on Nov 5, 2012

Great icon and label graphics:

http://thenounproject.com

digitalWestie · on Nov 2, 2012

Great question! Been wondering this for ages!