Fontomas is a web-based and open source project that allows us to combine any selected items from multiple iconic fonts to create a custom + lighter font. There are 3 built-in iconic fonts (Entypo, Iconic, Web Symbols). Within few steps (select any letters from the icons, re-arrange them), you get a new font.

The generated font is in SVG and web fonts can be produced from it using online generators like the one that FontSquirrel provides.

Texture King is a free texture resources website. Texture King allows you to use the textures they offer in whatever way you want, except sell or redistribute them. Textures are neatly organized with categories, available on every page on the left side.

The collection of textures available is fairly good, with around 100 textures as of writing. They are offered at 1600 x 1200 resolution. Texture King recently changed from zip file downloads to image downloads, so that should help you some more.

The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.

Every mp3 you discover on The Free Music Archive is pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by copyright laws that were not designed for the digital era. These uses vary and are determined by the rightsholders themselves who feel that allowing a degree of free cultural access is beneficial not only to their own pursuits, but to our society as a whole.

Are you a podcaster looking for pod-safe audio? A radio or video producer searching for instrumental bed music that won’t put your audience to sleep? A remix artist looking for pre-cleared samples? Or are you simply looking for some new sounds to add to your next playlist? The Free Music Archive is a resource for all that and more, and unlike other websites, all of the audio has been hand-picked by established audio curators.

The Free Music Archive is a platform for collaboration between WFMU and a group of fellow curators, including KEXP, dublab, KBOO, ISSUE Project Room, and CASH Music. The site combines the curatorial approach that these organizations have played for the last few decades, with the community generated approach of many current online music sites.

Typecast comes is an online service for developing the typographic layout of websites directly in the browser. You can style your headlines and paragraphs in an easy and intuitive way, without the need for writing and changing CSS values over and over again. Once you are satisfied with the results you can just grab the CSS code and put it in your project.

The Typecast app is currently in Beta, but you can already play with fonts from Typekit, Fontdeck and the Google Webfonts directory. Apart from just choosing fonts, the app also helps you to fit your styles on a baseline grid and to choose the right proportions for the type sizes.

Pinwheel lets users pin their notes to the world map. The notes can be public or private, shared with an individual, a group or everyone. Notes can also, Pinwheel hopes, be easily monetized through a sponsored content model. A realtor has, for instance, started leaving sponsored notes on Pinwheel’s map about properties for sale.

Users who are participating in the invite-only private beta can follow people, places and “sets” of notes. Eventually they’ll be able to receive push notifications from yet-to-be-built native apps.

Pinwheel is that a note, like a photo, can be a container for all kinds of things. It is the perfect social object. Stories, advice, jokes, diatribes, information, memories, facts, advertisements, love letters, grocery lists and manifestos can all be put into a note.”

GIFPAL is a website that allows you to create free GIF animation. This website works by either using a webcam to take picture, or you can use pictures you have on your computer. One you have created your GIF animation you can download it from the website onto your computer. You can also save it on the website or upload it to the GIFPAL gallery.

Click some pictures using the web cam or upload some from your PC or Mac first. Then, go ahead and arrange them with cool effects. You can use up to 20 images to create 20 frames, and then animate them in any way you want.

LogotypeMaker is a site where you can create logos for free to go with any project you’re trying to complete. Logos to display on your own website, on your own blog, on your Facebook fanpage. Using a very intuitive interface. This lets you edit your logo right on your browser, until you’re 100% happy with the results.

Gradients and reflections can be applied, your logo can be outlined, and you can always upload and use your very own artwork. And at no point will you be requested to pay anything, not even when saving the finished logo to your HD. In fact, you can save it as a PDF or as a GIF, and you can also export it as a PDF.

Chartle.net create, embed and share your charts, plots, diagrams and maps online. Over 1 billion charts, maps, plots and diagrams are found in print publications each year – but only 40 million online. This huge discrepancy is a reflection of the complexity to create & publish charts online. Chartle.net tears down the complexity of online visualizations – offers simplicity, ubiquity and interactivity instead.

Using Chartle.net does not require registration and is free. Every chart you build can be published, shared and embedded on your website or blog. Data for your chart can be entered manually or inputted using an excel spreadsheet via the ‘import’ feature. You can also adjust the size of the chart you create to fit your site. Before you publish your Chartle you’ll be asked to give it a : Title, Author and Description.

Quipol is social polling. It’s a simple and elegant way to unlock the opinions and perspectives of your online audience. Quipol makes it easy to create social polls (called Quipols), share them with your audience, and monitor the results. Quipol is for people who want painless polling and hassle-free feedback. Bloggers, journalists, superheroes, business folk—they’re all big fans of Quipol because it just works.

Quipol was made with love, focus, and a few thousand lines of code. We think it’s the perfect way to find out where your audience stands on virtually any topic. Start creating your own Quipols today, and let us know how we’re doing.

JPEGmini is a patent-pending photo recompression technology, which significantly reduces the size of photographs without affecting their perceptual quality. The technology works in the domain of baseline JPEG, resulting in files that are fully compatible with any browser, photo software or device that support the standard JPEG format.

With JPEGmini you can store more photos on your hard drive and online photo service account, attach more photos to your emails, and upload your photos faster to the web. If you have an image-intensive website, your pages will load faster, and you’ll also reduce your storage and bandwidth costs.

This depends on the resolution and quality of the original photo. For high-quality, high resolution photos produced by digital cameras, you can expect a reduction of 50%-80% in file size.