60 Useful Online Generators for Designers
Today’s competitive market makes it necessary to stay updated in all the dimensions in designing industry and designers need all the latest software to be in the top. But purchasing software or downloading a huge one may not be in the top priority especially if it is going to be used only after a trial. In such cases online generators can be of great help which do the necessary job and some tools don’t have to be downloaded also.
A lot goes in designing the backgrounds with different textures and patterns, choosing the right colors and a lot other factors. Not only the backgrounds but buttons, logos, scrollbars, texts, and a lot is important when it comes in designing and it does involve a lot of creativity and time to zero in the final one. Not to worry, these tools are not to compromise on the creative aspect but are developed keeping the time factor in mind.
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Useful Online Generators for Designers
Here is a presentation of such online generators for designers which are quite small, simple to use and produce excellent results with maximum combinations in a fraction of time. No installation or download required to use these tools, and the results can be saved for your purpose.
256 Pixels
256 Pixels creates favicon designs where you can upload a picture or color the pixels by choosing any color and save it or create a favicon for any new challenges posed by the website.
80 x 15 brilliant Button Maker
Create 80 x 15 dimension buttons with 80 x 15 brilliant button maker where you can customise by setting the borders, left and right boxes and uploading the images separately for left and right boxes.
AJAX loading GIF generator
AJAX Loading GIF generator create your AJAX loading GIF image by defining the indicator type, background color, foreground color and controlling the speed of the loading indicator.
AJAX Info
Create your own AJAX loader icon by selecting the type of indicator, background and foreground color and clicking in ‘Generate It’.
Background Maker
A unique background maker where you choose the colors from the pixelised tile which depicts the tiled background and fill each tile or pixel with a different color to watch it live in the background as a pattern.
Background Patterns
Tiled background designer is quite an interesting tool to create tied backgrounds which allows you to change the background color, size of the canvas, image to be displayed and also rotated your tiled design as per your design.
Badges
Web 2.0 Badges are used to display ‘Beta Message’ on your website or emphasize a promotion. They can be created in various round or square or any kind corners in vibrant colors by changing its angle, X and Y coordinates.
Barcode Generator
Barcode label printer is an online barcode generator where a CGI form is used to enter a text and generate a printable and scannable barcode in Interleaved 2 of 5, Code 39, Code 128 A, B, or C symbologies.
Buttonator
Buttonator is a free web button maker to create your own personalized web buttons. You can customise the button’s font, color, style and apply different effects for your button.
Color Combos
Find the perfect combination of colors for your project through Combo Tester which allows web developers to see how different color combinations work together on the screen and Combo Library contains hundreds of color swatches with their hex values.
Color Mixer
Create a new color by mixing colors, Color /mixers is a fun tool to fine tune and fiddle with a color with editable RGB colors and adjustable lightness and darkness.
Color Palette
Creates 10 shades of the base color at different degrees of opacity starting from top row overa white background and ending at bottom over black.
Color Palette Generator
Generates a color palette for any image uploaded or select an image from the pre-defined set , define the grid size and method and your color palette is generated.
Contact Form Generator
Contact Form Generator is used to create form to email scripts for your ASP, PHP or Perl website with no programming. Just enter the email header fields like email from, email to and subject to create the form.
Corner Shop
Corner Shop is used for create rounded corner graphics for website designing. Enter the Box and Page background with corner radius and set the transparency and ‘Create Graphics’ where you will get four images, CSS and HTML code for creating any number of round corner boxes.
Create Graph
Create a graph as bar graph, line graph, pie chart etc.. by selecting the default graph type and defingin the design such as style, shading, data set ie number of fields, data labels and your graph is created.
CSS Button and Text Field Generator
Generate a button or text field by CSS Button and Text field generator by filling the fields for CSS object like object type and class name and CSS object style where the border and text settings are defined.
CSS Form Layout Code Generator
CSS Form Layout Code Generator generates colorful box layouts for forms in table less code.
CSS Font and Text Style Wizard
CSS Font and Text Style wizard is used to compare fonts and text style in a fun way on screen where font family, style, variant, size and weight can be altered, and also the word and letter spacing, text alignment, indentation and other options can be altered.
CSS Layout Generator
CSS Layout Generator creates a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns with header and footer where the values can be in pixels, ems or percentage.
CSS Menu Generator
CSS menu Generator generates CSS and HTML code required to produce a text based set of navigation buttons. A CSS menu gives effective text links with a better look than the standard text links.
CSS Optimiser
CSS optimiser is a web tool to reduce the file size of cascading style sheets. Enter the CSS either by an URL or via an upload of file.
CSS Scrollbar
CSS Scrollbar color changer changes the color of your HTML scrollbars for Internet Explorer. Colors can be selected from a color picker or entered manually in Hex format, also pre built styles are available.
CSS Tab Designer
CSS Tab Designer helps you design CSS based lists and tabs without any coding. You can design your list quickly or choose from a variety of styles / colors which generates strict XHTML compliant code.
Dotter
Dotter is a dotted background generator to create backgrounds with dots and background of either 2 colors or single colors. Set the height and color of dots and background and click OK.
Email Icon Generator
Generate your email address For GMail, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo!, AOL and many more into image which can prevent your email from spam as it displays an image rather than text.
Email Icon and Signature Generator
Create your Email signature or custom signature in just two steps by defining the image and text and changing the font and color of the text.
Email Riddler
Email Riddler is used to encrypt and transform your email address into a series of numbers while displaying it which makes it safe as spammers cannot decode it.
Error Message Generator
Generate customised error boxes through Error Message Generator by selecting the icon, entering the text and defining the buttons.
Favicon
Favicon is a tool to create favicon.ico icons, that get displayed in the web server directory, just choose a color and click on the squares and paint your logo and then download it.
Favicon Generator
Favicon Generator creates favorites icon for your site where you can upload an image and convert it into standard 16 x 16 favicon.ico and generate the icons or download them.
Flash Buttons
Create easy and fast navigation menus by instantly adding your text and links to any of the animated buttons.
Flash Movie Maker
Create flash movies and slide shows without any knowledge of Flash for your website with Toufee’s flash maker which has more than 127 effects, 75 transitions, 23 filter and more which can be applied instantly to your flash movie in a single click.
Flash Embedder
Flash Embedder tool easily embeds flash movies into HTML which done be done using the publish option in Flash program.
Gradient Maker
Enter the start and End colors by selecting from the color picker, define the length and direction for the gradients and generate the gradient background and right click to save the background.
Gradient Image Maker
Gradient Maker is used to generate gradient images ie the images which gradually change color. Define the Gradient type, orientation, width, color and generate the gradients which can be save as backgrounds too.
HTML and CSS Table Border Style Wizard
Select between different border width, style, color, and background-color options where a sample table is rendered in a frame, The TD and TH tags define the table or the frame which can also be defined.
Wufoo HTML Form builder
WuFoo’s HTML From builder helps to create contact forms, online surveys and invitations , registrations and online payments where you don’t need any programming skills.
HTML – kit Favicon
Favicon from Pics is a tool to create still and animated icons or favicons from regular images which are used for browser address, bars, page tabs and bookmarks. You can also add animation and scrolling text. Also create exclusive icons iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad icons for your Apple gadgets.
Image Tool
Web 2.0 Free logo generator creates logo in simple steps, Define your own text, colors for background and foreground, size of the font and also you could add any symbol if u want it to be displayed along with the logo.
Logo Creator
Web 2.0 Logo Creator creates your logo by defining six options of font, logo text, badge, mirror, background, resize and your customised logo is created. Also you can choose from the defined presets.
Loren Ipsum
Loren Ipsum or the standard dummy text for printing and typesetting industry which is used as default model text for many desktop publishing packages and web page editors can be generated by defining the number of paragraphs / words/ bytes / lists here.
Loren Ipsum Generator
Dont want to start with the standard ‘Loren Lipsum’, Generator 3 can do your job where you can select the language, define the number of paragraph and words and generate the text as HTML or plain text file.
Patterns
Design a unique pattern of your choice by selecting any style and coloring it wherever you like from the color swatch table or create your own pattern.
Pattern Cooler
A free seamless pattern background design resource where you can add your own colors to contemporary and retro pattern designs, or browse from thousands of pre-colored patterns in its library. All the artworks on this site can be freely used for your purposes.
PHP Form Mail Generator
PHP From Mail Generator is a tool to create ready to use web forms with unlimited standard form fields and user input validation, then preview and test your form and download it use it.
Record
Vinyl Record Generator is used to create a gramophone record where you have to just enter some text and click ‘Go’ where a picture of a record will be generated which can be emailed, downloaded or shared.
Rounded Corners
Generates a basic box with rounded corners. Creates four image files and the necessary HTML and CSS code to put rounded corners around your content.
RSS Buttons
Creates an RSS button which can be a small image banner / badge / button / sticker in order to keep the blogs neat and consistent. Create your own buttons by defining your options and your 80 x 15 RSS button is created.
Sign Generator
A sign generator is an online widget used to change the letters in various photos of signs like road signs, people holding signs, to give it a personal touch of yours. Just choose a template and change the message.
Strip Generator
Strip generator is used to generate cartoons online which is a flash based application where you set up the frames, drage and drop your characters, add items and text balloons for them and publish to generate your comic strip.
Striped Backgrounds
Striped backgrounds generates free background stripes randomly or according to your choice where you can select the resolution for widescreen, full screen, mobiles etc and save the background.
StripeMania
A free seamless pattern background design resource where you can add your own colors to contemporary and retro pattern designs, or browse from thousands of pre-colored patterns in its library. All the artworks on this site can be freely used for your purposes.
Stripe Generator
Generate seamless stripe textures to create random stripe patterns in any direction or any color using Stripe Generator where custom stripes can be created by changing the stripe size, spacing, orientation, stripe color, background color and style and spacing.
STYLr
Web 2.0 STYLr creates your logo just by entering your options and the logo is created. Also, Here you can sign your masterpiece too.
Tartanmaker
Tartan Maker lets you set 3 different colors of bands where the color and width as well as the orientation of the bands can be changed according to your wish.
Text Generator
A text generator other than Loren Ipsum where you just have to specify the number of paragraphs and click on ‘Generate’ to get the results.
Typetester
Typetester is used to compare three different type of fonts on screen making your designing job easier , Just specify the specifications and compare them.
Web Form Generator
The web form generator from Web Form Factory automatically generates he necessary backend code to tie your form to a database.
XML Charts
XML /SWF charts are used to create attractive graphs and charts from XML data, Create a source either manually or generate dynamically then pass it to the XML chart’s flash file.
Wow, massive list! I use a few of these generators but I’ll make sure to check out the others. JotForm is another good form tool.
Wow! What a large and useful list. I used to lost in links while searching for web font generators. I found a few great resources here. Thanks for this cool list.
This is treasurreeee! Some new for me…thanks! Bookmark.
Great list, lots of stuff there. No online PDF tools though, which is something I’ve been looking for. Doculicious.com does something similar to wufoo, but outputs PDF files, which is cool. You could add them to a list like this.
Bookmarked and shared! Great list with some tools I haven’t heard about before. Thanks for sharing!
nice post and awesome designing:-)
Bookmarked !! thanks for the information!
Thanks for sharing this huge list of tools!
this is one of my favs…. saves me having to think border-radius.com
This is a great list… I didn’t even know there was an AJAX loading gif generator!
Great list of resources that will definitely be bookmarked,
Thanks for the share!
This is a realy great list. Thanks for the Informations!
Nice post, with I had time to check them all out!!
Nice list. Used ajaxload many times. Would suggest adding http://www.zobuno.com for HTML form building and creating contact forms. has a nice theme builder for designers as well.
i think mostly designers wishes to add all the generators …great work
Here’s one you missed
http://faary.com/
Super simple form generator with jquery validation built in.
You done good work.nice screen shots and this is a great explanation for designers.In the designing point of view ,it’s a goal
You missed http://webarti.com/buttonX too, it is the best button maker i have ever seen so far…
Try this for preloader ….its amazing
http://preloaders.net/
Impressive list. Thank you for compiling it for others.
These are great generators. Thanks for the nice list.
Excelente!!!!!!!!!!!! me sirvieron mucho thanks.
Awesome list?
Anyone know how to make one of those black dotted backgrounds like in Apple keynote, which looks like a speaker grill?
Hi,
Thanks for a great list. Appreciate your hard work :)
I found a favicon generator that creates the html header: http://faviconit.com
how to create quotes online..
just wanted to add this seamless iconic pattern generator service – patternico.com to your compilation.
Originally we had created it for ourselves because it just was waaay to long to do this task in Photoshop every time but now we decided to release it in public so everyone can use it, hope you like it!
Good post! Take a look at computer generated arts at codegena.com/generator/background-image-generator
You missed out zippysig.com
Its one of the best email signature generators out there. I use it every day!