Picons.me, an icon design company offering various icon sets, is sharing a set of 60 social icons for free.
The set has items for all the popular social networks and comes in multiple vector formats: .AI, .EPS, .PDF.
There are also .PSD + .CSH versions and .PNG in 8 different sizes (from 16*16px to 512*512px).
P.S. In order to prevent any confusions, the resource's website mentions that the Picons.me license doesn't apply to this social set.
Touch screen devices, specially with the popularity of iPhone and iPad, are on the rise.
Just like standard websites, icons help so much in guiding users "about the the usage" of the websites/applications built for them.
GestureWorks is sharing a set of 20 free gesture icons that covers most of the scenarios like:
The icons come as transparent .PNG files and also in vector formats (.EPS, .AI, .PDF) for improving further.
Every web designer can follow a different route when sketching the output. It can be an image in the mind, created with a software, drawn with hand on a paper, etc.
Whatever your choice is and even if paper sketching is not your best option, it can still be needed for anyone (while discussing with a client, sketching offline and instantly..).
Paper Browser is a set of PDF files that look like a browser which can be used for sketching easily once they are printed.
They both come with landscape and portrait versions.
LAFKON vektorDB is a huge database of free vectors created by LAFKON Publishing.
The database consists of design sets (collection of traffic signs, sports, etc.) and individual illustrations of various objects, people and more..
Items come as layered PDF files which can be edited or customized easily.
Designs shared are free to be used in open source projects or free/commercial project with an attribution.
FlexPaper is an open source document viewer component for displaying PDF files inside websites or Flash applications.
The component does not exactly display PDF files but the PDF-to-SWF converted files in a Acrobat Reader-like interface.
Usage is pretty simple, just inserting the SWF file + customizing the options and there are free tools to convert documents, like SwfTools.
FlexPaper supports zoom in/out, paging, fullscreen, search and printing the documents viewed.
Optionally, it is possible to use the component in Adobe Flex as a SWC source file comes with the download.
Gesturecons is a set of 50 vector gesture icons which is specially designed to be used with projects related to multi-touch interfaces.
However, they can also be used inside any application to demonstrate to users how to complete actions or prompt them to interact with an application when they approach it
They come with .PDF, .AI, & .EPS file types which is great for editing or creating derivatives of the icons provided.
JankoAtWarpSpeed is sharing a free kit for easier sketching & wireframing of websites / web applications.
The kit consist of form elements, icons, indicators, feedback messages, tooltips, navigation elements, image placeholders, embedded videos, sliders and common ad banners.
It comes in .AI, .SVG, .PDF & .EPS vector formats and completely free for personal + commercial use.
BambooInvoice is an open source & free online invoicing application, built with PHP/MySQL, which is ideal for small companies or freelancers.
It has an Ajaxed interface (totally unobtrusive) with structured & meaningful XHTML.
Also, a reports feature displays a financial snapshot of the given period.
It can be customized easily by modifying the look & feel of the application.
Bumpbox is another Lightbox clone which offers a very easy usage & has some advantages over others.
There is no need to mention the media type to be displayed as it detects them automatically & as a nice feature, Bumpbox can display PDF files besides FLV, SWF, images or HTML content.
It is built with MooTools & displays the modal box with a nice bump effect.
The script works for both local & remote files. And, to show FLV files, it uses Flowplayer media player.
There are 1000s of free TrueType or OpenType fonts that can be used in design projects. On the other hand, there are very few free fonts in vector formats.
Fonts in vector formats like .AI, .EPS or PDF are great, specially when we want to modify or add an extra twist to them. As every layer of them are under our hands, this is easily possible.
Here is a collection of 19 creative, quality & free fonts in vector formats (.AI, .EPS or PDF) that you’ll like:
The font’s download link exists in the information section of the page.
