Best design tools of 2026
73 products. Editors, plugins, handoff and everything around the canvas, hunted by designers who use them in a working week.
This shelf is for the designer who opens the same three apps every morning and wonders what else is out there. Every entry was hunted by a member who uses it, with a line on why.
Type in space: 3D typography experiments in the browser
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Free WebGL fluid gradient editor with copyable shader code
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A drawing surface for quick sketches, free and in the browser
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Find any Unicode character by name, codepoint or meaning and copy its HTML, CSS or JS
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Small web tools for pattern, texture and dithering work
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Mesh gradient editor with control points and real-time preview
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Dithering, halftone, duotone and pixel effects in the browser
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A shader playground: dozens of named WebGL effects, every parameter on a slider
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Moving gradients for Framer, Figma and React
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A playground for box shadows on web and React Native
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17 free browser labs for dither, ASCII art, gradients, liquid metal and patterns
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A free vector and pixel graphics editor that runs in the browser and works offline
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Design a vector world map on a 3D globe, then export it as SVG
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Builds a gradient from colors or straight from a photo
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Photo or video to ASCII, halftone, voxel or LEGO, no signup
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The free, open source 3D suite for modeling, animation and rendering
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Quote snapshots set in real typography, ready to post
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A free generator for CSS gradient backgrounds
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Drop a logo symbol in and watch it hold up from favicon to billboard
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Figma style measuring, grids and annotation for any live web page
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Contrast test for a color combination, scored against WCAG
Design tools · hunted by Denis