Freelancers have to get involved in a lot of aspects of a project. From sales and marketing to production and managing finances. As a result you’ll find that you need to draw on a lot of resources to help you with those tasks.
Here’s my list of the best free resources available for freelance designers and developers…
Templates & Resources
Graphic Burger – great for mock ups
More mockups, icons, and fonts over at Freebies Bug
Sketchapp TV – Sketch tutorials and resources
Icons, patterns, fonts and more from PixelBuddha
Generate icon fonts with Fontello
365PSD – a PSD every day of the year
Creative Market’s free section
Icons for everything from The Noun Project
Typography
Handy font pairing tool from Canva
Useful Chrome Extension to find any font on a web page
Showcase of the best Google Fonts from Hello Happy
Project Management & Communication
Trello is a great collaboration tool
Slack can be useful for remote working with teams
Organise your thoughts and notes with Evernote
Wireframing
Pencil Project is an open source wireframing app
Wireframe kit for Adobe XD
Accounting & Finance
Generate PDF invoices with Invoiceomatic
Manage expenses and invoices with this tool from Wave Apps
Proposals, contracts, invoices, time tracking and more from And Co
Pandle – useful free bookkeeping software
Invoicing, billing, accounting, expenses and more from ZipBooks
Photography
Free photography from UnSplash
Jay Mantri – High resolution free photos
More great free photography over at Pexels
Free photography emailed direct to your inbox – Death To The Stock Photo
Productivity
Work faster on your mac with Alfred
Get your to do list in check with Wunderlist
Connect your apps and devices with IFTT
Avoid distractions with Self Control
Inspiration
Really Good Emails is a searchable email inspiration gallery
Pattern based design inspiration – Pttrns
Muzli – Daily design inspiration straight to your browser
Color picker from Adobe
Typewolf provides typographic inspiration
Visually organise your links, files and notes with Dropmark
Development
Atom is a customisable modern text editor
Brackets is a free code editor founded by Adobe
HTML5/CSS3 Templates from html5up