Any designer needs tools for inspiration and work. Here you can find a list with free resources to choose gradients, fonts and to find beautiful, free stock photos.

Font Tools

• Google Fonts — making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography.  
• FontPair — a simple tool that helps you pair Google Fonts together. 
• FontSpark — a simple tool to help designers quickly find the best fonts for their projects. 
• Wakamai Fondue — the tool that answers the question "what can my font do?". 

Gradient Tools

• Blend — create and customize beautiful CSS3 gradients. 
• ColorSpace — the perfect matching color scheme. Generate nice color palettes. 
• CSS Gradient — a free css gradient generator tool, this website lets you create a colorful gradient background. 
• Grabient — beautiful and simple UI for generating web gradients. 
• UI Gradients — handpicked collection of beautiful color gradients for designers and developers. 
• Web Gradients — a free collection of 180 linear gradients that you can use as content backdrops in any part of your website. 

Stock Photos Tools

• Burst — free stock photos for websites and commercial use. 
• FoodiesFeed — FoodiesFeed offers thousands of beautiful realistic free food pictures in high resolution. Perfect stock photo site for food bloggers. 
• FreePhotos.cc — free stock photos for commercial use. 
• Freestocks.org — Freestock offers a wide range of high quality photos all released under Creative Commons CC0. 
• Gratisography — the world's quirkiest collection of free high-resolution pictures. 
• Kaboom Pics — Kaboom Pics offers a wide variety of high quality free stock photos including abstract, city/architecture, fashion, food, landscapes and more. 
• Life of Pix — a resource created by the LEEROY creative agency offering free high-resolution photos with no copyright restrictions. 
• Moose — Stock Photos Designed to Work Together. 
• New Old Stock — a vintage photos from the public archives free of known copyright restrictions. 
• Pexels — an aggregate of many free stock photo resources. 
• Pixabay — website for sharing photos, illustrations, vector graphics, and film footage under a proprietary license. 
• Picjumbo — a collection of totally free photos for your commercial & personal works. New photos are added daily from a wide variety of categories including abstract, fashion, nature, technology and much more. 
• pxhere — free image stock. 
• Reshot — a massive library of handpicked free stock photos you won’t find elsewhere. Built for startups, freelancers & makers who are sick of tacky stock photos. 
• ShotStash — thousands of free high-resolution CC0 photos and videos. 
• SkitterPhoto — SkitterPhoto offers a wide variety of free stock photos and are released under Creative Commons CC0. 
• StockSnap.io — StockSnap has a large selection of beautiful free stock photos and high resolution images. 
• UI Faces — aggregator that indexes various free avatar sources that you can use in your design mockups. 
• Unsplash — stock photos free to use.