melankorin

resources

• coolors

  Easy to use colour palette generator.

• female head lighting reference tool

  A reference for when you want to draw heads. Both female and male versions are available.

• halftone hospital

  Open digital production tools for comic artists, cartoonists and zinesters.

• perbang.dk rgb chart & multitool

  Detailed information for every colour.

• poolors

  Color combos least/most used by designers.

• super color palette

  Another colour palette generator.

reference

• au keitai zukan

  A visual timeline of mobile phones released in Japan from 1986 to 2021, as presented by phone carrier au.

• consumer aesthetics research institute

  Probably my favourite source of design references. Cataloguing and analysis of design movements in popular culture from the 70s to the present day.

• game ui database

  Comprehensive reference for UI within games.

• globalvillagecoffeehouse @ imgur

  Huge image albums of design objects from the 70s to the 00s.

• mobile phone museum

  Another virtual museum dedicated to mobile phones, this time focused on phones from around the world.

• northwest historical annual reports collection

  "The Northwest Historical Annual Reports Collection is a growing digital collection of annual financial reports of companies currently or historically based in the Pacific Northwest."

• propagandas em revistas

  Archive of scans of ads in Brazilian magazines.

• propagandas históricas

  Huge archive of Brazilian ads.

• searchsystem

  "Searchsystem is an ever-growing collection of references and tools for designers."

• vintage ad browser

  An archive of more than 100k ads, spanning the 19th century to the present day. (yes, that means you're gonna see stuff that has... how do I say.... aged like milk.)

• web design museum

  A virtual museum dedicated to websites and the changing trends in web design throughout the three decades (so far) of the internet.

anime & manga

• list of anime with actual romance

  Are you tired of waiting 100 episodes for characters in anime to finally... hold hands? With this list you can skip that and get to the good shit. Manga version if you prefer that.

games

• maahlevola da nostalgia

  Catalogue / archive of 2000s Brazilian Flash game compilation CDs.

• portal dos cd-roms / vinizinho

  Catalogue / archive of 90s and 2000s Brazilian educational game CDs.

music

• every noise at once

  Extensive, interactive taxonomy of music genres based on Spotify data. Excellent for discovering new music.

graphics

• frank na sozai

  Massive collection of pop style materials.

tools

• transfonter

  Modern and simple css @font-face generator. Useful for using your own fonts in your website, just please pay attention to their licenses.

• wave web accessibility evaluation tool

  WAVE is a suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities.