10 Free Tools for Creatives

Posted on October 30, 2015

The best free tools for creatives

Copywriting

Grammarly

Grammarly's premise is to help you become a better writer by finding and correcting grammar mistakes as you write. It promises to pick up more than ten times as many errors as your typical word processor. Download the app for free and you will write mistake-free on Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and nearly anywhere else you write on the web with their online interface.

Hemingway Editor

Hemingway Editor is an interesting tool used to identify and highlight different sections of your text, and help you improve it by editing sections of it. This desktop app will break down your writing and point out how to get better by using a "readability" grade standard.

Colors

Colordot

Colordot is a highly precise, highly customizable color palette creator. The whole webpage is your colorpicker, use the mouse pointer to select a hue, then scroll for saturation, click to save and move on to the next color. Great visual tool for quick selection of colors.

0 to 255

0 to 255 is an interesting idea, it is a tool that simply offers variations on any color you select. See dozens of different shades of the color you want, or choose a random color. Easy save to clipboard feature.

Mockups

PSD Covers

PSD Covers offers a better alternative to Photoshop's 3D rendering. Sometimes when you try to take a 2D image and render a 3D model of it on photoshop, it doesn't come out right. This tool can take any 2D design and turn it into a tridimensional product cover. Download PSD cover actions and use them for free in your project.

Dunnnk

Dunnnk provides beautiful stock resource material for creative projects for free. Simply select the tech brand you want, and browse through their catalog of beautiful graphics including closeups of handheld devices, wearables, and other interesting and beautiful gadgets.

Frame

Frame is a tool allowing you to download high quality resource material for mockups. Awesome tech product shots for free. The site hosts 8 categories, 35 frames, and over 58,000 user scenes. Simply select a scene, upload the image you'd like to use in it or link the website to be featured, it automatically generates the final material, and then you download it.

UI Faces

UI Faces offers a great collection of free sample avatars for download. Highly specific filter, user uploaded images, and beautiful continuous scroll page design. This website was born out of the necessity to find daily new avatars for mockups.

Typography

Wordmark.it

Wordmark.it is a tool to better help you find the perfect font for your project. Very good filter system, and easy to use: simply type in a word you'd like to visualize, and it loads up hundreds of varied fonts. Customize the font to your needs by altering font size,

Type Genius

Type Genius provides a tool for selecting the perfect typeface choices for your project. Simply select a primary font, and then Type Genius will generate matching font combos automatically. Unique, easy to use free tool at a professional level.