Resources

Free tools we love

A hand-picked list of genuinely useful, mostly-free tools we reach for alongside ProjEvo — for design, assets, accessibility and front-end work. None of these compete with ProjEvo; they're the things that make the actual creative work better. We keep this list current and only include tools we'd recommend to a friend.

26 tools · Updated June 2026

Design & prototyping

Where the visual work happens.

Figma

Collaborative interface design and prototyping. The industry standard, with a capable free tier.

Visit Figma →

Excalidraw

Hand-drawn-style whiteboarding for wireframes and flows. Free and open-source.

Visit Excalidraw →

Photopea

A full-featured, browser-based image editor that opens PSDs. Free.

Visit Photopea →

Penpot

Open-source design and prototyping built on web standards.

Visit Penpot →

Color

Palettes, contrast and gradients.

Coolors

Fast palette generator and explorer.

Visit Coolors →

Adobe Color

Color wheel, harmony rules and accessibility checks.

Visit Adobe Color →

CSS Gradient

Quick, copyable CSS gradients.

Visit CSS Gradient →

Typography

Fonts and pairings you can actually use.

Google Fonts

Hundreds of open-source, self-hostable typefaces.

Visit Google Fonts →

Fontshare

Quality, free-for-commercial-use fonts from the Indian Type Foundry.

Visit Fontshare →

Fontpair

Curated font pairings, mostly from Google Fonts.

Visit Fontpair →

Icons & illustrations

Open-license assets that won’t get you in trouble.

Lucide

Clean, consistent open-source icon set (the one we use).

Visit Lucide →

Heroicons

Crisp MIT-licensed icons from the Tailwind team.

Visit Heroicons →

unDraw

Open-source illustrations with recolorable, on-brand palettes.

Visit unDraw →

Tabler Icons

4,000+ free MIT icons.

Visit Tabler Icons →

Stock photos

Free, commercially-usable imagery.

Unsplash

High-quality free photography.

Visit Unsplash →

Pexels

Free photos and stock video.

Visit Pexels →

Image optimization

Ship fast, lightweight assets.

Squoosh

In-browser image compression with live preview (by Google).

Visit Squoosh →

TinyPNG

Smart PNG/JPEG/WebP compression.

Visit TinyPNG →

SVGOMG

Optimize and clean up SVGs.

Visit SVGOMG →

Accessibility

Catch issues before your clients’ users do.

WAVE

Web accessibility evaluation from WebAIM.

axe DevTools

Accessibility testing in the browser.

Visit axe DevTools →

WebAIM Contrast Checker

Check color contrast against WCAG.

Visit WebAIM Contrast Checker →

Front-end utilities

Small tools that save real time.

Can I use

Browser support tables for web features.

Visit Can I use →

cubic-bezier

Craft and preview CSS easing curves.

Visit cubic-bezier →

RegExr

Learn, build and test regular expressions.

Visit RegExr →

web.dev

Google’s guidance on performance, Core Web Vitals and best practices.

Visit web.dev →

These pair perfectly with ProjEvo

Use the tools above for the craft — run the business side (projects, billing, support, hosting, client portals) in one place with ProjEvo.

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