✨ Beautiful

Accurately drawn birds swearing at each other about territory, mating and the general indignity of being a bird.

Two dozen SVG generators in one place — noise, grain, blobs, dots, gradients, mesh — all exportable and all free.

Animated bar chart races, scrollytelling and story maps built from a spreadsheet without writing any code.

Paint with thick wet oils that pile up, smear and catch the light exactly like the real thing, entirely in a browser tab.

Variable font sandbox where you drag the axes and watch weight, width and optical size move in real time.

Suggests font pairings from a model trained on type, with locks so you can hold one face and reroll the other.

Long-form expeditions into Japan's abandoned mines, hotels and theme parks, written by somebody who actually climbed in.

The French national library's digital collection — manuscripts, maps, newspapers and photographs, millions of items deep.

Walks you through rebuilding classic algorithmic pieces — tiled lines, Joy Division, cubic disarray — one step at a time.

A free flight simulator in the browser using satellite terrain for the entire planet, with real air traffic overhead.

Curated wall of the best-designed sites on the internet, filterable by type and updated relentlessly.

Full-disc satellite imagery of the Americas straight from the GOES satellites, refreshed every few minutes at absurd resolution.

Gigapixel scans from two thousand museums, plus the experiments that let you find your own face in a painting.

The whole planet in 3D in a browser tab, with guided Voyager tours for when you would rather be told where to look than choose.

Small library of ready-made gradients you nudge by dragging the angle, then copy straight into a stylesheet.

A boarding-school story with robots, forest gods and a plot that has been quietly paying things off since 2005.

Generates blobs, waves, stacked layers and low-poly grids as SVG, all of them tweakable and all free to export.

Vector halftone generator that rebuilds an image out of dots, lines or waves and exports it as clean SVG.

Mr Doob's sketching toy, where strokes web themselves together with connecting threads and turn scribbles into shading.

Every event on Wikipedia plotted as a dot across fourteen billion years, filterable down to one category at a time.

Old photographs pinned to the exact street corner where they were taken, fading into the modern view behind.

Rebuilds a photograph out of coloured triangles, with sliders controlling exactly how abstract you want to get.

David McCandless's poster-grade infographics on everything from relative drug harms to the meanings of colours.

Drags the guts of a JPEG around with three sliders, producing the smeared colour blocks that only broken files make.

Every key on the keyboard fires a different sound and a matching burst of animation. No two letters look or sound alike.

Documentation of the vast Victorian asylums built to one architectural theory of curing madness, most now empty or demolished.

Tarot taught properly, with free card meanings, a clean illustrated deck and lessons that never ask you to believe anything.

Thousands of landing pages sorted by industry and style, which makes it the reference for anyone writing one.

Fitts, Hick, Jakob and the rest, each with a plain explanation and a poster you will end up printing out.

Photographs, manuscripts, sheet music and film from the largest library in the world, mostly free to reuse.

Cameras pointed at geysers, glaciers, harbours and whichever volcano is currently misbehaving, plus a northern lights feed in winter.

Thousands of curated palettes, from Game Boy green to 64-colour monsters, each downloadable in every format going.

The official Escher archive: the impossible staircases, the tessellations, and his own notes on how he worked them out.

A convincing macOS desktop rebuilt in Svelte, dock animations included, running entirely inside the browser.

Kaleidoscopic drawing surface with adjustable mirror counts, so one wobbly line comes back as a symmetrical mandala.

Zoom into the Mandelbrot set as far as the arithmetic allows, with palette controls and no plugin to install.

Every part of a wristwatch exploded and animated in sequence, until the escapement finally makes sense.

A platform where creators publish their own dress-up games, which is largely how the genre survived the death of Flash.

Every train on the Tokyo rail network moving in real time across a 3D map, with the aircraft landing at Haneda thrown in.

Search any molecule and spin its three-dimensional structure, with spectra and crystal data alongside it.

The typing test that made typing tests beautiful — endlessly configurable, instantly readable and quietly addictive.

Live cameras on the kelp forest, the aviary and the open sea tank, plus a sea otter feed that has ended many working afternoons.

A live tank of sea nettles drifting in blue water, which has been the internet's default calming video for years.

Builds a photo mosaic out of hundreds of your other photos, free to make and zoomable right down to each tile.

Capture the flag with bows and low-poly castles, where arcing a shot over a wall beats raw reflexes almost every time.

Every photograph, video and audio recording NASA has released, searchable and free to use for anything.

The full NASA satellite archive as daily global mosaics, with a date slider you can drag back two decades to watch ice, dust and smoke move.

Canada put its entire animation and documentary archive online for free, and some of it is the strangest work any government ever funded.