✨ Beautiful

Good news redrawn as illustrations by a designer who got tired of doomscrolling and built the feed he wanted instead.

A quarterly printed newspaper of good news and everyday heroes, illustrated throughout, with the archive online.

Beautifully drawn strips that set up a sweet premise and then take it somewhere very dark in the final panel.

Essays and picture galleries drawn from the strangest corners of out-of-copyright print, film and illustration.

Visual essays answering questions nobody commissioned, like which pop lyricists have the largest working vocabulary.

A painting that zooms into itself forever, assembled by a dozen artists so carefully that the seams never quite show.

Pour coloured sand into layered dunes with the mouse, which is considerably more absorbing than it has any right to be.

Tap any key in rhythm and it plays the next chunk of Clair de Lune, so timing is the only skill actually required.

Click to place a block and a small algorithm builds a plausible seaside town around it, with no goal of any kind.

Drops you into a field recording from a forest somewhere on earth, tells you which forest, then offers you another.

Plotter art drawn by a virtual turtle in a hundred-odd lines of JavaScript, with everybody's source code on display.

High-resolution photographs from a huge community of photographers, free to download and use. Browse by topic or colour without signing up.

Weather models rendered beautifully enough to watch for their own sake, with layers for wind, rain, snow depth and wave height.

Two decades of hand-picked short films, still the most reliable place online to find something beautiful in nine minutes.

Daily infographics on markets, commodities and demographics, designed to be understood in a single glance.

A dictionary drawn as a spring-loaded graph, with related meanings pulling away from each word you type.

Climate averages for any city as gorgeous year-round charts: sunshine hours, muggy days, wind, and precisely when the good weather ends.

Full-resolution images from the James Webb telescope, with the explanations of what you are actually looking at.

Drag through a full-screen fluid that swirls and bleeds colour behind the cursor, at full frame rate even on a phone.

A vast library of freely licensed photos, maps, diagrams and sound files, each with its licence spelled out. The picture shelf behind Wikipedia.

Wikipedia with a readable layout, a proper contents sidebar and images that stop fighting the text.

Roughly a hundred thousand Winamp skins, all loadable in the browser. An enormous accidental record of amateur graphic design.

The forecast as an animated map, with wind, waves, temperature and a dozen models to argue between, free and without an account.

Crazy golf on a floating landscape that unfolds into a new course between shots. Worth playing for the transitions alone.

A browser planetarium stitched from real survey data, letting you pan the whole sky in visible light, infrared or radio.

Drag a hundred colour chips into one perfect gradient. The score tells you how good your colour vision actually is.

Real-time fractal zoomer ported to the browser, smooth enough that the boundary keeps unfolding as fast as you dive.

Old Faithful on a live feed, plus static cameras on the geyser basin and the north entrance, run by the National Park Service.

Draw mirrors and walls, then let a raytracer slowly paint the light bouncing between them until the image resolves.

Satellite imagery refreshed through the day, with storm tracks, wildfire hotspots and rainfall radar layered over the top of it.

The sequel quilt, darker and stranger than the first, still folding into itself with no end and no explanation.