🧰 My Favorite Web Dev Tools (Design, Code, SEO & More)

As a developer, I love finding tools that save time, make my work more beautiful, or just simplify the grind. Over time, I’ve collected a list of web tools I keep coming back to, for UI design, image optimization, responsive testing, SEO, accessibility, and more.

Here’s my curated collection of tools I regularly use (and recommend!) across every part of the frontend workflow.

📚 General Resources & Tool Lists

• web.dev
  → Official Google resource for web performance, SEO, and accessibility.
• openalternative.co
  → Find open-source alternatives to popular tools and SaaS platforms.
• notchtools.com
  → A huge, curated directory of modern developer tools and websites.
• fffuel.co
  → A collection of design tools, gradients, color generators, and SVG utilities.

🌈 Design, Theming & Typography

• Realtime Colors
  → Live preview of color and font combinations with real UI components.
• Convert A Color
  → Convert between HEX, RGB, HSL, and other formats easily.
• Color Hunt
  → Beautiful curated and community-made color palettes.
• SheCodes Gradients
  → Clean gradient palette generator with tons of options.
• UI Fonts
  → Visual pairing and preview tool for UI-friendly fonts.
• Google Fonts
  → Massive collection of open-source fonts ready for web use.
• Fontshare
  → A modern selection of designer-curated fonts with easy usage.

🖼️ Graphics, Icons & Images

• Storytale.io
  → Free and premium 3D and vector illustrations.
• Iconify
  → Massive collection of icon sets across styles.
• SVGL
  → Branded and clean SVG icons, searchable by category.
• 3D Icons
  → High-resolution 3D icons for UI and presentations.
• Isocons
  → Generate isometric-style icons for visual mockups.
• Lummi.ai
  → High-quality, royalty-free AI-generated stock images.
• UI Generator
  → Generate UI mockup screenshots with random data.

☁️ Storage & File Handling

• UploadThing
  → Easy file uploads and storage with a solid free tier.

🧹 Optimization & Performance

• Vert
  → Compress and convert images/videos with AI.
• Squoosh
  → Advanced browser-based image compression tool.

📱 Responsive Design Testing

• Responsively App
  → Multi-device responsive testing browser for UI and layout checks.

♿ Accessibility Tools

• Color Contrast
  → Test text/background contrast ratios for accessibility compliance.
• Understanding Accessibility
  → Learn core accessibility concepts and best practices.

🔍 SEO, Metadata & Previews

• Real Favicon Generator
  → Create favicons for all platforms and devices.
• OG Playground
  → Generate and preview Open Graph images for social sharing.
• Clean My SEO
  → Simple SEO audit and score for websites.

📸 Code Sharing & Social Media

• Animate Code
  → Generate animated code snippets for posts and videos.
• Carbon
  → Create beautiful static code images for sharing online.

Whether I’m building UIs, testing layouts, designing themes, or tuning SEO, these are the tools I’ve bookmarked and reached for again and again.

Got a favorite that’s not on the list? Drop me a comment or send it my way. I’m always collecting!

- EG