Tools for making visual ideas real.

A curated collection of the tools, libraries, references and production resources worth knowing — for designing, building, generating, testing and shipping visual work. Each one comes with what it's good for, where it falls short, and how current it is.

Curated, not comprehensive. We include what earns a place and say why.

181 resources across 15 categories

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  • Design & UI

    5 resources

    Design tools and canvases — including tools that hand back real, editable code.

    Design canvas

  • Components & Libraries

    23 resources

    Component libraries — from unstyled accessible primitives to ready-made animated sections.

    Headless / foundation components · Styled component kit · Animated component kit

  • Typography

    7 resources

    Typefaces to use, and tools for pairing them and setting type scales.

    Typeface / font host · Type pairing / scale tool

  • Color

    6 resources

    Tools for building palettes, shades and accessible colour tokens.

    Color / palette tool

  • Images & Visual Assets

    57 resources

    Where images come from — stock, AI generation, illustration, icons, backgrounds, mockups and logos.

    Stock photo · Stock video · AI image generation · Illustration · Icons · Backgrounds / patterns · Mockups / device frames · Logo generation

  • Motion & Interaction

    11 resources

    Animation engines, designer-authored motion, and lightweight CSS motion.

    Animation engine · Designer-authored animation

  • 3D

    3 resources

    Creating and embedding interactive 3D on the web.

  • Video

    9 resources

    Generating, rendering and finishing video — from AI generation to programmatic rendering to editing.

    AI video · Programmatic video · Video editing

  • Development

    9 resources

    Frameworks, forms, backend, content management and developer utilities.

    Forms · Dev utility · Transactional email

  • AI & Agents

    16 resources

    Plugins, skills, MCP servers and directories that extend what AI coding agents can do.

    MCP server

  • Research & Inspiration

    13 resources

    Galleries and reference archives for studying real-world visual and interaction work — and tools that turn existing sites into structured reference.

    Inspiration gallery · Inspiration → code extractor

  • QA & Testing

    12 resources

    Accessibility, visual-regression, performance and asset-optimization testing.

    Accessibility testing · Visual regression · Performance testing · Asset optimization

  • SEO & Discovery

    4 resources

    Validating structured data, metadata and search readiness.

    SEO / structured data

  • Analytics

    2 resources

    Privacy-friendly and self-hostable web analytics.

  • Production & Workflow

    4 resources

    Delivering work to clients and recording walkthroughs.

    Client delivery

Compare tools for a job

15 of the categories carry a comparison: a set of options read against the same questions for one specific job, with cost, maintenance and access side by side. They live inside the category pages rather than as separate routes.

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