The Graphic Designer's Toolkit: Free Online Tools for Designers
Graphic design is a field where you can never have too many tools at your disposal. Whether you're a freelancer juggling client projects, a student building your portfolio, or an in-house designer cranking out deliverables, your workflow probably involves a constant rotation of tasks — picking colors, pairing fonts, resizing images, building mockups, creating assets, and preparing files for web or print. Professional design software handles the heavy lifting, but there's a whole category of smaller, focused tasks where a quick browser-based tool is all you really need.
FreeWWW offers a growing library of completely free, browser-based tools that require no downloads, no accounts, and no subscriptions. Quite a few of them are tailor-made for the kinds of tasks graphic designers deal with every day. In this post, we've rounded up over twenty tools across seven categories that belong in every designer's bookmarks bar.
Color Tools
Color is foundational to everything a designer does, and FreeWWW has three tools that cover the full spectrum of color-related tasks. The Color Picker lets you grab colors from anywhere on your screen, giving you an instant starting point for any palette. Once you've found a color you like, the Color Code Converter lets you translate it between HEX, RGB, RGBA, HSL, HSLA, and HSV formats — plus it includes a color wheel, WCAG contrast ratio checker for accessibility compliance, a color scheme generator, and CSS variable export. And when you need to build out a full palette from scratch, the Color Palette Generator creates harmonious color combinations that work well together.
Used together, these three tools take you from initial color inspiration all the way to a production-ready palette with the correct codes for whatever format your project requires.
Typography
Choosing the right fonts can make or break a design, and getting a heading and body combination that feels cohesive takes more experimentation than most people realize. The Font Pairing Tool lets you browse, preview, and export beautiful heading and body font combinations using free Google Fonts. Instead of cycling through dozens of tabs and test documents, you can quickly audition pairings side by side and export the ones that work.
For the more technical side of type, the Font Size Converter handles conversions between points, pixels, ems, rems, and other units. It's the kind of thing you might need three times in a day or once a month, but when you need it, having a dedicated converter beats guessing or searching for a formula.
Image Editing & Optimization
Designers spend a surprising amount of time on image housekeeping — resizing, reformatting, compressing, and prepping files for different contexts. FreeWWW has four tools that streamline this work. The Image Format Converter & Resizer handles both format conversion and resizing in one step, so you can go from a large PNG to a web-ready JPEG at the right dimensions without opening heavier software. When file size matters, the Image Compressor lets you optimize JPEG, PNG, and WebP images with adjustable quality settings and a before-and-after comparison so you can see exactly what you're trading off.
The Image Background Remover does exactly what the name suggests and is useful for product photos, headshots, or any situation where you need a clean cutout without firing up a full editor. And for assembling multiple images into a single layout, the Collage Maker provides a quick way to create photo collages — handy for mood boards, social media posts, or client presentations where you want to show several visuals at once.
Icons, Logos & Assets
Creating and managing visual assets is a core part of the design workflow, and this group of tools covers a range of common needs. The Icon Maker lets you create custom icons from scratch, while the Icon Gallery gives you a browsable collection of existing icons to work with. For web projects specifically, the Favicon Maker handles the creation of those small but essential browser tab icons that every website needs.
The SVG Editor & Optimizer fills a gap that many designers will appreciate — it lets you edit SVG code with a live preview, optimize files to reduce their size, and export as SVG or PNG. SVGs show up constantly in web and UI design, and having a lightweight tool for quick edits and cleanup saves a trip back into a full vector editor. Rounding out this category, the QR Code Generator creates customizable QR codes with support for colors, sizing, error correction levels, and logo embedding, and the Barcode Generator produces professional barcodes in multiple formats. Both are tools you might not use every day, but when a client needs a QR code on a poster or a barcode on packaging, they get the job done quickly.
Layout, Wireframes & Diagrams
Before the visual polish comes the structure, and FreeWWW has a few tools that help at this stage. The Wireframe Creator lets you sketch out UI layouts for websites and apps — useful for pitching concepts to clients or mapping out a page structure before committing to a full design. It's lightweight and focused, which is often exactly what you want in the early stages of a project.
For more conceptual or informational visuals, the Venn Diagram Generator creates clean Venn diagrams that work well in presentations, infographics, and explainer content. And the Word Cloud Generator turns text into visual word clouds — a popular element in branding exercises, social media content, and data visualization projects.
Web & CSS Design
Designers who work on the web side of things will find a couple of focused CSS tools worth bookmarking. The CSS Button Creator lets you visually design custom buttons and grab the ready-to-use CSS code, eliminating the back-and-forth of tweaking border radius, shadows, gradients, and hover states by hand. The CSS Pattern Generator creates repeating CSS patterns that can serve as backgrounds or decorative elements — a quick way to add texture or visual interest to a page without relying on image files.
Both tools follow the same principle: design visually, export the code. For designers who are comfortable with CSS but would rather not write it from scratch for every element, they're practical time-savers.
Print & Presentation
Not everything lives on a screen, and these two tools address the physical side of design work. The Business Card Maker lets you design and create business cards — useful for your own cards, for clients, or for quick mockups during a branding project. And the Paper Size Calculator serves as a reference for comparing standard paper sizes across different systems, which comes in handy any time you're setting up a document for print and need to confirm dimensions.
That's over twenty free tools across seven categories, and they cover a wide swath of the tasks that fill a graphic designer's typical workday. Whether you need to grab a color, pair some fonts, compress an image, or build out an icon, there's a good chance one of these tools can save you some time and keep your workflow moving.
Explore these tools and hundreds more at FreeWWW.com — all completely free, no account required.