links

website resources

Gifs and Images

The Internet Archive - a library that contains millions of free content, can't even begin to state the uses for this.
Gifcities - a gif search engine that is useful for sourcing old-internet gifs from the Geocities-era.

Inspiration

Cameron's World - a web-collage of text and images excavated from archived Geocities pages.
Olia Lialina's Website - a net artist with a neat website, some great resources and inspiration can be found here.

Backgrounds

Background Archive - good resource for low quality tiled backgrounds.
Texture Town - more great tiled backgrounds, with some extra links that could lead to interesting stuff.
(Another) Background Archive - waow, even more tiled backgrounds.
Tiled Backgrounds (Archived) - even more tiled backgrounds, with previews.
PixelMoonDust Backgrounds - waow, even more tiled backgrounds with previews.

Tutorials

W3Schools - amazing learning resource that gives you the basic information on a variety of coding languages, in this case HTML and CSS.

Utilities

Cbox - an embedded chat app that you can see on your right.
Catbox - a free, high-capacity file hosting service that is useful for anything i can't place in my Neocities directory.
Litterbox - identical to Catbox, but the content uploaded is temporary.
Vocaroo - voice recording service, good for if i ever wish to record myself speaking and want to share it.
RFC 2822 Time Converter - instantly converts timestamps into RFC 2822 format for my RSS feed.

graphic design resources

standard font sites [free]

Google Fonts - probably the most reliable option if you're looking for fonts that can be licensed for commercial use.
Urban Fonts - a huge collection of fonts, quality and originality can vary wildly.
Fontsquirrel - slightly more curated library, with an overall smaller selection that these other options.
DaFont - similar to Urban Fonts, with probably an even larger spread of fonts.

curated font sites [free]

Dirty Line Studio - both paid and free fonts, I really like these ones.
Uncut - awkward layout, but all the fonts are free to use, with varying kinds of licensing.
Fontfabric - paid and free fonts, with the ability to preview text in any font.
Fontshare - free fonts, with weight and size sliders, alongside previewing text.
Velvetyne - open source free fonts, lots of interesting display fonts in here.
Collletttivo - open source fonts that have a very small collection of free options.
Open Foundry - free and paid font site that is a bit awkward to navigate and preview fonts with.
League of Moveable Type - a ton of open source fonts with good licensing transparency.
X Cicero - some cool display fonts here, but it's a tedious site to use.
Free Faces - another great free curated font site.

typography tools

Typescale - helpful tool for sizing and testing fonts.
Typogram Studio - a similar tool to Typescale.
Fontjoy - font pairing tool.
FontBase - the most popualar font manager.
NexusFont - the font manager that I use personally, if you like a more old-school layout.
FontStruct - bitmap font maker.
Glyphs - font maker for filthy mac users.
FontForge - font maker for filthy windows users.
Hyperglot - language compatibility checker.
TypeRip - an Adobe font ripper if you're into digital licensing theft (i am).
ChatGPT - i know i know, but it's good for fixing font metadata which can be fucked sometimes.

japanese learning resources

Learning Guides

Tofugu - a helpful website for beginners, full of resources and articles that help with getting started.
Yokubi - a very useful Japanese grammar reference.

Spaced Repetition

WaniKani - teaches kanji, radicals and vocabulary. The first three levels are free.
Anki - free flashcard software that can be used for almost anything.
Kanji Koohii - another excellent SRS for learning basic kanji.
Kanji Garden - a completely free kanji SRS.
KanjiDamage - a free kanji learning resource that uses crude humour to make readings easier to remember.
iKnow - a paid tool focused on vocabulary.
Bunpro - a paid tool for learning Japanese grammar and vocabulary.

Textbooks

Genki Textbooks + Workbooks - PDFs of the Genki textbook series.