Free Art & Design APIs

The Met open collection: 470,000+ artwork images and cultural metadata

Open museum collection records, high-resolution images, and artists

Open access collection of world-class artworks, 3D scans, and provenance

Harvard Art Museums collection objects, exhibitions, and artwork metadata

Smithsonian Open Access museum collection records and 2D/3D assets

European digital cultural heritage: digitized art, books, and archives

Royalty-free stock photography and curated artistic imagery

Openly licensed media search engine with over 700 million creative commons images and audio tracks.

Figma vector canvas files, components, and design system telemetry

Universal icon framework: 150,000+ vector icons with zero limits

Color scheme generator, color conversions, and naming palette tools

Google Fonts developer API: open-source typography and webfont subsets

Designer portfolio showcase, animated shots, and creative projects

Machine-readable dataset of published web design prices from Dorset providers. Offers median, min/max and per-source rows with retrieval dates and source URLs, available as JSON and CSV.

Stitch is an API that generates user interfaces for mobile and web applications, streamlining the design process. It leverages artificial intelligence to assist designers in quickly ideating and creating layouts, making design both fast and efficient.

The Yes or No API provides a random yes, no, or maybe answer in JSON format, drawing from various themed oracle voices such as Magic 8 Ball and Tarot. It is completely free to use, requires no sign-up or API key, making it ideal for integrating into apps or bots.

Smithsonian Design Museum

Curated architecture, design, photography and art projects with visual-similarity and taste metadata

AI fashion design generator — transform Swedish text into clothing concepts

Create branded PDFs and images from HTML or saved templates via a versioned REST API. Starts free with 50 monthly credits.