Free Software for Designers

Paid software is fine but there is always an alternative for free - Today we round up the best free and shareware software for web designers …

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CSS Editing

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Juststyle - FREE - Windows / Mac / Linux

JustStyle

CSS Editor is full-featured, yet easy-to-use, software for webmasters. It is a specialized style sheets development environment, featuring everything needed to develop and deploy cascade style sheets.

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Simple CSS - FREE Windows / Mac / Linux

Simple CSS allows you to easily create Cascading Style Sheets from scratch, and/or modify existing ones, using a familiar point-and-click interface.

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Stylemaster - 30 Day FREE Trial - Windows / Mac

We could go on about the features of Style Master. From beginner to expert, Style Master will make working with CSS more efficient, more productive, and more enjoyable.

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Topstyle for Windows - FREE Lite version or Trial of Pro Version - Windows Only

Looking for a powerful tool for creating standards-compliant sites? Consider TopStyle, written by the creator of HomeSite, the world famous HTML-editor. You can edit your HTML, XHTML and CSS in a single program.

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Font Management Tools

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Font Explorer X - FREE - Windows / Mac

FontExplorerâ„¢ X sets a new standard for font management software. Linotype is pleased to announce the missing link to your font collection. With the new FontExplorerâ„¢ X, font management, font sorting, font shopping and font discovery are simple and fun!

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Adobe Type Manager Light - FREE - Windows / Mac

Adobe® Type Manager® (ATM) Light is a system software component that automatically generates high-quality screen font bitmaps from the PostScript® outlines in Type 1 or OpenType® format.

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Cross Font - FREE Trial - Windows

CrossFont for Windows NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista can convert TrueType and PostScript Type1 fonts between Macintosh and PC platforms.

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Graphics Editing

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The Gimp - FREE - Windows / Mac / Linux

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

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Inkscape - FREE - Windows / Mac / Linux

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

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Desktop Publishing

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Scribus - FREE - Windows / Mac / Linux

Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout.

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Usefull Resources

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Free Fonts

Free Vectors

Free Photoshop Brushes

Cheatsheets

Stock Icons

Color Scheme Tools

Stock Photos

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