50 essential freebies for web designers, April 2014

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March 26, 2014
50 essential freebies for web designers, April 2014.

New projects are released all the time that get us excited about the industry we work in. Each month we bring you a list of the very best free resources for the month ahead.

This month's huge new list of diverse elements for designers and developers includes some fantastic freebies for mobile, web and print work; it includes cool scripts, awesome fonts, great ideas, and must-see experiments.

Whether you're a designer, developer, or enthusiast we're sure you'll find something here to kick-start April with a bang!

Atom.io

Highly customizable text editor.

Campton

A modern and neutral type family.

jQuery TableNav

A jQuery plugin to navigate cells with arrow keys.

Bushwick

Lightweight theme for personal blogs.

Type-finder

An online tool to find an appropriate and reputable typeface for all your projects.

Shadowpainter

A tool to make animations using box-shadows.

Durandal

An SPA framework to create all kinds of apps.

RRSSB

A package of highly responsive social buttons.

Farray

An all caps font with strong characters for display.

iOS7 icons

A pack of 100 icons iOS app style icons.

Tiff

Web tool that helps you spot the differences between 2 Google fonts.

Glyphr Studio

HTML5 based font editor.

Lupercalia

Simple customized theme for WordPress.

jQuery.checkradios

Lightweight plugin to create checkboxes and radio buttons with no images.

Simple stack effects

Simple stack effects for inspiration and tutorial.

Disclaimer

A monospace display font in 2 styles.

isInViewport.js

Light plugin that detects if an element is within the viewport.

Sheetrock

jQuery plugin to retrieve and display data from Google spreadsheets.

Onetone

Simple onepage theme aimed at creatives and businesses.

Codemagic.gr

A web tool to create code experiments.

Plunker

An online community to create and collaborate in development projects.

YourBrowser.Is

A web tool that gives you a very complete report about your browser.

Novito Nova

A nice all caps font with Latin and Cyrillic character support.

Glitchy 404 Page

An original 404 template with a static screen background.

Flat preloaders

A set of colorful flat preloaders in various formats.

Radial menu

Nicely animated CSS radial menu.

Clear Sans

Modern and versatile font with good legibility.

Metalsmith.io

Pluggable static site generator.

MVCSS

Sass based CSS architecture to create maintainable application styles.

HTML5 banner

An animated interactive banner made in HTML5 and CSS3.

Csspinner

CSS loading animations with very little effort required.

ScrollMagic

A very complete jQuery plugin for cool scrolling animations.

F7

A powerful HTML framework for iOS 7.

Identity mockup

A realistic 3D mockup to show off your branding with style.

Fruithealth

A 2 column WordPress theme for health and nutrition sites.

Tabbar menu

An iOS7-like menu with nice animations.

Govpress

WordPress theme for government sites.

Linia

Modern theme for blogs.

Rotation & background experiment

An amazing experiment using only CSS and JS.

RegExr

Write and test regular expressions.

Vibration API

API for web pages to allow mobile devices vibrate.

Luzern

A modern sans serif typeface in 2 styles.

Movie app UI

A responsive interface best suited to showcase movies and similar.

Embed

A PHP service to embed any webpage or service.

Clip path carousel

Using clip-path to transition between carousel items.

Pikabu

A framework for flyout canvas panels.

Fait Main 1

Vintage handwriting font for headlines and badges.

McKinley

One column theme for bloggers.

Stickynavbar.js

A plugin to stick your navigation bars to the top of the browser.

Vintage badges

100 fully editable badges with a colorful retro style.

Juan Pablo Sarmiento

Founder of iconShock (high quality free icon sets), DesignShock (lots of design packs and TemplateShock (printing templates)

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