Collection of Fresh Design Freebies – July Edition
Welcome to our July edition. Vacation and holidays are in full swing so that creative folks not only get a spur from Mother Nature but also have a plenty of free time to come up with something special in order to cheer you with fantastic and professionally crafted stuff.
This month’s collection is bright, lush and hot like a summer. It will replenish your toolbox with helpful prototyping tools, CSS instruments, marvelous templates, splendid GUIs, and other integral elements.
Freebies for Designers and Developers
Origami
Created by devoted professionals, Origami is an excellent instrument for designing trendy and stylish interfaces that will be full of life, color and motion. It provides you with a code snippet that can be run on your iPhone or iPad or simply used as a starting point.
CSS Crush
CSS Crush falls into the category of sophisticated CSS preprocessor tools. List of core features allows you to effectively deal with auto prefixing, variables, nesting, inheritance, abstract rules, functions, selector grouping, selector aliases, mixins, and fragments.
Flag Icon CSS
Flag Icon CSS is a pack of flags that can be used in buttons or simply as standalone objects. It is an excellent solution for displaying support of other languages in your website without overloading it
CSS 1K
CSS 1K is a very interesting and inspiring website that offers a case study of what can be achieved with only 1k of CSS code. It gives some representative examples of interfaces such as notepad-inspired layout or Swiss-like layout that can come in handy in various projects. You can easily put into work one of the samples.
Pygments CSS
Pygments CSS is a Python-based highlighting tool that will turn your markup into a readable and scannable markup. It neatly colorizes classes, variables and functions, visually separating them from others.
CSSNext
CSSNext encourages front-end developers to test their limits through implementing the latest CSS syntax. It effectively deals with browser compatibility so that you can leverage custom selectors, color(), hwb() and other cutting-edge stuff without hustle and bustle.
CSShake
CSShake adds a nice dynamic touch to almost any DOM element, enriching the interface with some motion. The collection includes basic shake, slow shake, a little shake, hard shake and some others.
Hammer.js
Hammer.js intends to make your website a more comfortable place for mobile and tablet users by improving their experience and navigation through the project. It is a lightweight library that adds an extra functionality for touch screens.
Gridstack.js
Gridstack.js is a lightweight and robust multi-column grid. It has a drag-and-drop interface for quickly creating Bootstrap layouts that are responsive, mobile-friendly, clean and stylish.
Leafee UI Kit
Leafee UI Kit is a neat, flat and sleek HTML/CSS set of integral components that are suitable for building modern interfaces. There are menu styles, buttons, widgets, post blocks and much more.
Modern Themes
Modern Themes has an impressive list of free high-quality WordPress themes. Here you will find a perfect match for getting your idea off the ground and starting your business online.
Free Summeric Material UI Kit by Kien Tran
Material design is the talk of the office; it is ‘literally’ everywhere. If you want to put your 2 cents in then we recommend you give this vibrant vigilantly-created UI set a shot. It stands out from the others in gorgeous coloring, smooth and subtle appearance and a diverse variety of components.
Pex
Pex – Free PSD Template by Blaz Robar looks exquisite, trendy and stylish. With this template, you will be able to charm your online audience with sophisticated aesthetics as well as dish up the information in digestible portions.
Ultimate Material Design Free Bundle
The Ultimate Material Design Free Bundle includes only the most necessary stuff for getting started with material design. There are 5 high-resolution backgrounds, 2 set of icons, 10 patterns, 10 avatars, and 36 image fonts.
The Spicy Octo Bootstrap Theme
This theme by Vanessazoyd has a refreshing, full of fresh air appearance. Light coloring and plenty of white space contribute to the visual experience and perfectly treat the content.
Apple Watch Wireframe Kit
This Apple Watch Wireframe Kit by Jessie Farris is a vector-based pack that comprises 20 neat, polished tiny watch screens. They are made in a grayish coloring in order to let you quickly delineate a prototype and the main structure.
Mega Collection of Free Infographic Vector Elements by Mats-Peter Forss
A collection of infographix elements that has a ton of components to help piece together data-centered designs. The package includes charts, graphs, maps, timelines and other essentials.
Bootstrap 12 Columns Grid for Artboards
Bootstrap 12 columns grid for artboards by Andrii Klenin is a valuable instrument for Bootstrap fans. Its primary task is to lessen your efforts and save your precious time while building responsive artboards
Free iOS9 Vector GUI Template for Illustrator by Vasil Enchev
From small glyphs and vote icons to huge fundamental elements such as navigation bar or keyboard, this mind-blowing set includes every tiny detail. It streamlines prototyping interfaces suitable for Apple platform and makes designing a piece of cake.
For Photoshop fans, there is an – iOS 9 UI Kit – Artboards PSD created by Brian Benitez
Smashicons
As the tagline states, Smashicons claims to be the largest icon set in the world. It offers an unbelievable amount of 500 items available in 4 fully customizable variants. It will satisfy and surprise even sophisticated designers.
Conclusion
As is expected, July is overfilled with stuff dedicated to Google’s material design, iOS 9 and iwatch. So that with the above listed resources, you can easily try yourself out in the modern tendencies.
Can you add some other helpful stuff that will help to be a part of mainstream?