Friday, December 7, 2018

Visual Resources #3: Creative Sites for Text, Fonts and Clip Art Directory

This is the third installment of a series of posts featuring amazing websites which can help add life to your notes and blogs. Being more than a little handicapped (ha ha) in the areas of drawing and illustration, I've come to rely on a multitude of places to create images for articles, blog posts and tutorials.


This is the first of several blog posts offering information on finding playful image makers, fonts, visual effects and more. To see the other directories, be sure and check out the list at the end of this post. Enjoy!



TEXT AND SINGLE-LINE WORD GENERATORS:

• Single-line (limited characters) Text Giraffe
• Create a line of text to add to anything SupaLogo
• Logos available on Flaming Text
Font Styles on Flaming Text
Add Text






MY FAV  TEXT GIRAFFE STYLES:

Seal/Badge (this is red but there are other colors)
Ice Cream Cone
• Heart designs in (Red) or (Pink)
• Deco-shape label (Pink), (Black) or (Green)
• Banner (Rose/blue) or (Pink)
• Comic-style Word Amazing (yellow on teal), Badabing (pink on pink), Bazinga (yellow on orange), Bigfoot (orange on yellow), or Indycar (teal on yellow)




LABEL MAKERS:

Label Generator
Embossed Label Design






WORD CLOUDS AND COLLAGE:

• Some of the Best Word Cloud Generators
Tagxedo
Loupe Collage





FONTS AND TYPOGRAPHY:

Type Effects
Typography Editor
Chalk styles on Font Meme
Font Joy
Fontstruct






CLIP ART AND IMAGES:

Clip Art ETC
Clipartix
Stick People Clip Art
SoftIcons
Wpclipart
Clipartpanda
IconFinder
ClipArtBest
ClassroomClipArt
HassleFreeClipArt
Picgifs
Top 15 Places to Find Free Images Online
Public Domain Pictures
Cliparts.Co
OpenClipArt
PublicDomainPictures.net
Free Educational Clip Art for Teachers
School Clip Art
Clip Art Library