Track down high-quality graphics to meet your needs
You know that feeling when you're busy working from home
or in the office but that piece of work just isn't coming together? You
don't have the time to sort something from scratch so you decide to
search for some free vector art online – but it's not always easy to
find what you're looking for.
A good selection of free resources – including free fonts and free vector art – can be a lifesaver for any designer. But more often than not, the process of finding what you need amidst cluttered, confusing pages just adds to the mounting deadline stress.
To help you avoid that experience, we've put together a hand-picked guide to the best free vector art resources, including various useful designs that you can download in preparation for future projects. Please note and respect the Creative Commons licence if there is one.
A good selection of free resources – including free fonts and free vector art – can be a lifesaver for any designer. But more often than not, the process of finding what you need amidst cluttered, confusing pages just adds to the mounting deadline stress.
To help you avoid that experience, we've put together a hand-picked guide to the best free vector art resources, including various useful designs that you can download in preparation for future projects. Please note and respect the Creative Commons licence if there is one.
01. Vector4Free

The
collection at Vector4Free isn't huge - at just over 1,500 free vectors
it's much smaller than many of the other sites featured here - but the
quality is pretty consistent and everything is well tagged so it's easy
to find what you're looking for. All the featured vector images are free
for personal use, but check before using them commercially.
02. Vector.Me

The
team behind Vector.Me couldn't find a search engine for free vectors
with a complete collection and flexible searching capabilities, so they
decided to build their own. With a database of over 280,000 vectors it's
absolutely packed with stuff, and there are separate logo and icon
sections in case that's all you're after.
03. Freepik

Freepik
calls itself the "leading search engine of free vector designs".
Created to help you find free vector art, illustrations, icons, PSD and
photos for use in your designs, Freepik produces hundreds of free
vectors daily – which can be downloaded in AI, EPS and SVG format – and
has over one million free vectors and photos on offer.
04. FlatIcon

FlatIcon
boasts over 107,150 free vector icons. Its database is packed with free
icons available in PNG, SVG, EPS, PSD and BASE 64 formats, so whatever
type of vector icon you're looking for, you're likely to find it here.
05. Fudgegraphics

Fudgegraphics
is a creative blog run by designer Franz Jeitz so it doesn't have a
huge selection of freebies like vector stock sites. However, everything
here is made to a high quality including one of the best free splatter
vector files available online, so it's definitely worth including in
your search for free vector art.
06. FreeVectors

FreeVectors.net
is a fun community of vector-lovers who share free vector graphics. The
most recently added vectors are displayed at the top of the page, and
all are free for personal use (with most of them free for commercial use
too).
07. 1001 Free Downloads

The
team at 1001FreeDownloads scour the web for the best free graphics for
designers. With thousands of free vectors alongside photos, brushes,
gradients, PSDs, fonts and more – as well as high-quality graphics
produced in-house – it won't take you long to find the vector you want.
08. DryIcons

DryIcons
is an icon-developing website that creates unique icons and icon sets,
vector graphics and web templates and – initially – gives them away
freely, with its Free License.
That means you can use DryIcons' icons, vector graphics and web templates in any publicly accessible website, web application or any form of publicly accessible presentation, according to some basic terms and conditions – which you'll find on the site.
That means you can use DryIcons' icons, vector graphics and web templates in any publicly accessible website, web application or any form of publicly accessible presentation, according to some basic terms and conditions – which you'll find on the site.
09. Snap2objects

A
nice clean site with lots of great free vector art. The blog-style
layout is a bit time consuming to browse but you can find a lot of gems
include excellent city vector shapes for New York, Paris, London, Moscow
and Tokyo.
10. Vector Portal

Vector
Portal offers a wealth of free vector art, which designers can use in
both personal and commercial projects. Easy to navigate, you can filter
your search using the drop down category box or search bar. With an
extensive library of artwork, you're sure to find something of use here.
11. Deviant Art

One
of the largest artist communities on the web, Deviant Art is full of
free and useful resources, including vectors. However, finding exactly
what you're after among the crowd of chaos can be tricky. The search bar
and the Resources and Stock Images link will narrow things down for you
and no doubt you'll come across lots of free vector goodies.
12. DaFont

Dingbat
Fonts are essentially a collection of small vector illustrations.
Simply type the letter you need and 'Create Outlines' in Illustrator CS6 to turn it into an object. Not all fonts are free for commercial use, so check the right filters before searching.
13. Fontspace.com

Font
websites are generally more user-friendly and pleasant to browse than
the ad-laden free vector art homepages. Fontspace in particular has a
great user experience where you can see whether a font is free for
commercial use simply by moving your mouse over it.
14. Brands of the World

Brands
of the World is an invaluable timesaver if you're designing for
corporate clients and don't want to sit around waiting for someone to
forward you a hi-res version of a certain logo. You can just find it
here.
15. Spoongraphics

This
personal blog belonging to designer Chris Spooner features a large
number of well-made, original freebies. Come for the free vector art,
stay for the excellent and insightful articles!
16. Vecteezy

Popular
site Vecteezy is a one-stop shop for finding any free vector art that
you're thinking of. However the quality does vary, so you may have to
spend time wading through mediocre vectors before finding something that
is good enough to use. It's worth the time, though, because there are
some quality vector graphics to be found here.
17. DesignContest

DesignContest is more of a
commission site and extremely tricky to navigate if you're just looking
for free vector art. However, it does offer a well-designed free T-shirt
template and various other free icons on the lower right menu.
18. Free Vector Archive

A
big stock vector site with very efficient browsing options. You can
search by colour, theme, popularity or file extension. It's clean to
navigate and free from distracting ads – all in all, a superb place to
search for free vector art.
19. All Silhouettes

Despite
being heavy on adverts, All Silhouettes trumps many other free vector
art websites in that everything is clearly labelled, fairly quick to
navigate and the vast selection is available as bumper vector packs
rather than single images.
20. VectorStock

VectorStock's main business is a library of reasonably-priced vector imagery, but as a handy aside it also boasts a substantial collection of free vectors. They're all available in EPS format, and it's nice and easy to create an account and start downloading.
21. FreeVector

With, by our reckoning, over 16,000 free vector sets available to download, you're in with a pretty good chance of finding what you want at FreeVector. To make life easier there's a good selection of categories to choose from, plus a pretty sweet collection of company logos.
22. Vector Open Stock

From
backgrounds and logos to flowers, wedding-themed graphics and patterns,
there's a huge range of free vectors available at Vector Open Stock. In
fact, there are 12,741 at the time of writing, with more free vector
graphics added everyday.
Have you found a good resource for free vector art? Please let us know about it in the comments!
Have you found a good resource for free vector art? Please let us know about it in the comments!
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