Free Stock Images/ InfoGraphic / Fonts
That’s the reason why we made June the month of ‘Designing Your First Infographic’, but we’ve decided to dig deeper and provide the ultimate guide for creating your first infographic. It’s a fantastic combination of tools, resources, blog posts and guides that will help you start off your first infographic with the right foot.
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- My go-to place for inspiration is Piktochart’s User Showcase. In it, you’ll find dozens of stunning infographic created by regular users, not design experts.
- A quick search on Pinterest for the query ‘infographics’ will show you some of the most popular infographics in the design world. This is a great place to check out if you want to look at what experts did. If you want to, you can get more specific with searches like ‘marketing infographics’ or ‘history infographics’.
- Usually, people see Dribbble as a web-design community, but it’s a great place to hang out, learn about design theory and take inspiration from.
- A few months ago, Giang, one of our team members, curated 25 ridiculously good infographics from around the web. You’ll find them in 25 Inspirations For Your Next Infographic.
Tools:
- Colour Lovers is a fantastic tool that allows you to select predefined color palettes. We find the Most Loved Palletes Of All Times a really useful resource.
- Paletton is another great color tool that helps you pick the right color combination for your infographic. It’s strong feature it’s the ability to automatically pick colors that work well between each other.
- If you are more design-savvy, then Coolors is the perfect tool for you. It allows you to create beautiful color schemes quickly.
Picking The Right Typeface
- Typography I: How 4 Typeface Personalities Set The Tone of Your Infographics
- Typography II: 4 Things You Need To Know To Pair Fonts Well
- Choosing The Right Font: A Practical Guide For Typography On The Web
- Choosing The Right Font: A Guide To Typography in Design and UX
Tools:
- Font Squirrel is the go-to place in the web for discovering new, popular and beautiful fonts.
- If you are looking for fonts that are widely supported around the web, then Google Fonts is the place to look.
- If you want to keep things as easy as possible, Piktochart has a built-in font selector that allows you to pick the perfect typeface for your design from over dozens of different options.
Utilizing Stunning Photography
Every now and then you’ll want to use photos in your design, and knowing where to get beautiful, free to use stock photography that doesn’t suck is a really useful skill. Most of the pictures we use at Piktochart’s blog come from these 5 placee\s:
- The team at Crew hand-picks 10 new photos every 10 days at Unsplash. It lacks a good search feature, but it has some high-quality pictures you’ll love.
- Death To The Stock Photo delivers a pack of high-quality images to your inbox each month. They also have a premium feature that allows you to access their entire library plus a bonus pack every month for $15/month. A definite no-brainer.
- Pexels and Stocksnap are two fantastic image search engines that aggregate free, high-quality, and beautiful photos from around the web.
Where to Get Unique Icons
Icons are an essential part of infographic design. They act as visual support for written content, helping readers grasp and remember concepts or data much faster.
- If you use Piktochart, our built-in icon library has hundreds of free icons you could use for your design. Simply do a quick search for the icon you want (like ‘computer’), pick the icon you want and then drag and drop it into the block you want. Easy-peasy.
- IconFinder is a great icon search engine you could use to complement Piktochart’s icons. There are some really beautiful paid icons in there too.
- FindIcons has +475,000 free icons you can download for free instantly. The quality of the images aren’t as polished as the previous resources, but the sheer amount of icons they have can help you when you aren’t able to find the right icon anywhere else.
Avoiding Mistakes
19 Warning Signs Your Infographic Stinks- 6 Mistakes To Avoid When You Make an Infographic
- 3 Deadly Mistakes of Infographic
39 Sites with Free Stock Photos
Most of the photos you will find on these sites are free from copyright restrictions or licensed under creative commons public domain dedication. You can copy, modify, distribute and use for even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. However, some photos may require attribution. But they are all free to use.
1. The Stocks: The best free photos in one place.
2. Pexels: Best free photos in one place.
3. All The Free Stock: Free stock images, icons, and videos.
4. Designers Pics: Free photographs for your personal & commercial use.
5. Splashbase: Search & discover free, hi res photos & videos.
6. Startup Stock Photos: Go. Make something.
7. Jay Mantri: Free pics. do anything (CC0). Make magic.
8. Moveast: This is a journey of a portuguese guy moving east.
9. Travel Coffee Book: Sharing beautiful travel moments.
10. Unsplash: Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos.
11. Death to the Stock Photo: Free photos sent to you every month.
12. Foodie’s Feed: Free food pictures in hi-res.
13. Mazwai: Free creative commons HD video clips & footages.
14. Jéshoots: New modern free photos.
15. Super Famous: Photos by Dutch interaction designer Folkert Gorter.
16. Picography: Free hi-resolution photos.
17. Pixabay: Free high quality images.
18. Magdeleine: A free high-resolution photo every day.
19. Little Visuals: 7 hi-res images in your inbox every 7 days.
20. Snapographic: Free stock photos for personal & commercial use.
21. Splitshire: Delicious free stock photos.
22. New Old Stock: Vintage photos from the public archives.
23. Picjumbo: Totally free photos.
24. Life of Pix: Free high-resolution photos.
25. Gratisography: Free high-resolution photos.
26. Public Domain Archive: New 100% free stock photos.
27. IM Free: A curated collection of free resources.
28. Cupcake: A photographer’s treat by Jonas Nilsson Lee.
29. The Pattern Library: Free patterns for your projects.
30. Getrefe: Free photos.
31. ISO Republic: High-quality, free photos for creatives.
32. Stokpic: Totally free photos.
33. Kaboompics: The best way to get free photos.
34. Function: Free photo packs.
35. Stock Up: Best free stock photo websites in one place.
36. Paul Jarvis: Free high-resolution photos.
37. Lock & Stock Photos: Free stock photos for you.
38. Raumrot: Free high-resolution picture.
39. MMT: Free stock photos by Jeffrey Betts.