A curated list of awesome websites for free Vector Graphics
Fred R. Barnard rightly said, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. This adage is apt in the design world. No matter what we are designing whether an application or a website or in any print media, the use of images convey more clearly the idea the designer wants to showcase to the user, rather than using words.
Today the world has moved on from using image formats namely .jpg and .png to much better SVGs (scalable vector graphics). The reason why the design world is using the SVG format images is, they are scalable, they can be printed with high quality at any resolution, even zoomed or resized without losing image quality (avoiding pixelation). With all these qualities SVG has become a W3C standard.
Concerning licensing, most vector images are free of restrictions from copyright, or they are licensed under Creative Commons Public Domain or some images may require attribution. It is therefore advisable to practice due diligence in the use of an image, to avoid any legal infringement.
With the licensing issue in mind let’s move on to the top free picks in Vector Graphics.
1. Freepik
A thought to provide a free graphic resources platform, culminated in the creation of Freepik in 2010. Since then, the company expanded at full speed with two new projects: Flaticon and Slidesgo. They uncovered a niche in the market, companies for instance NASA, Amazon, Spotify, FedEx, and Microsoft use Freepik’s resources.
Freepik provides high-quality content such as illustrations, images, icons, mock-ups, and presentation templates.
2. Vecteezy
Vecteezy launched in May of 2007 with the main goal of allowing its users to license images directly from artists.
Vecteezy provides designers with all the image resources they need to enhance their creative work, wherever they are in the creative process with worry-free licensing. It is an excellent place for designers who frequent the site to get inspiration and source files. Vecteezy has a huge database of design sources and elements to pick from.
All free download was created by a group of young and creative individuals in 2015. They publish new design content created daily via their studio BSG. They provide a vast range of design content like vectors, photos, PSDs, icons, templates, and fonts. All you need to do is just enter a keyword in the search box and voila! You get the design work that best suits your project.
4. VectorStock
VectorStock® officially launched in late 2007 with a small selection of Vectors.
Gone are the days of old where you need to pay large sums for vector images to enhance your design projects. At present, we can see many websites with free design content popping up all over the web. One such website is VectorStock, the world’s Premier Vector-only Image Marketplace with over 28,150,411 Royalty Free Vector Images and growing.
5. Undraw
Undraw Launched in 2017, with the simple goal of allowing designers to contribute to the open-source community, to help bring beautiful design abilities to all.
Apart from finding tons of vector illustrations, the unique feature of this website is we can change the colour of the illustrations with on-the-fly colour image generation to match our own brand identity. Here we also find modern and super lightweight alternative illustrations, designed by hand.