Awesome Stock Resources
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 to make a pull request.
Table of Contents
- Photography
- Illustration
- Videos
- Patterns
- Fonts
- Font Icons
- Colors
- Aggregated Content
- Sounds & Music
- Paid Resources
- How to Contribute
- How to Share
Photography
CC0-license
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
- Fancy Crave - Two new images added every day.
- Free Nature Stock
- Epicantus - Hi-resolution photos added every week.
- FindA.Photo - search through thousands of CC0 photos by keyword and color
- 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.
- Pixabay - Stock photos, illustrations, vectors and videos.
- Pexels
- Photo Collections
- Photo Crops - Five high resolution photos added every week, sometimes more.
- Realistic Shots - 7 new photos added every week.
- Skitter Photo
- Snapwire Snaps - Commissioned photos from 170,000 of the world's most talented photographers.
- Stock Image Point
- Stocksnap - Hundreds of high resolution images added weekly
- Stokpic
- Travel Coffee Book - Travel photography.
- The Pic Pac - New pacs on Monday, free pics Tuesday - Sunday.
- Unsplash
Custom License / Usage
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 -
©️ . - Pic Jumbo - ©️.
- Picography -
©️ . - Shutteroo -
©️ . - Split Shire - ©️.
- Startup Stock Photos -
©️ Startup based photography. - Tookapic -
©️ Free listing from Tookapic.
Public Domain
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.
- SpaceX Photos - Promotional SpaceX stock photography.
Attribution Required licenses
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.
- 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.
Unspecified License
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.
Illustration
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.
Videos
A selection of websites offering high quality video stock.
Patterns
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.
Fonts
A mixture of free and open source font resources.
- 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.
Font Icons
A collection for font icon resources which can be used in your interface and website designs.
Colors
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.
- 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.
Aggregated Content
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.
Sounds & Music
- 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.
Paid Resources
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
How to Contribute
Please read CONTRIBUTING.
How to Share
License
To the extent possible under law, Tony Phipps has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.