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Every Friday: the best free tools and design posts of the week, picked by hand, with a line on why each one is worth your time.
Next issue Friday 13 Nov · Week 46A week for type and motion. Our pick, Paper Mono, is a free monospace font with eight weights for code, labels and prices, and the RADAR posters show a wide display font shared under the same open licence. Its Hover adds icons that move when you point at them, and ntsc-rs gives videos an old VHS look.
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The year so far
Point at a lit weekTap a lit week★ Paper Mono
A week for type and motion. Our pick, Paper Mono, is a free monospace font with eight weights for code, labels and prices, and the RADAR posters show a wide display font shared under the same open licence. Its Hover adds icons that move when you point at them, and ntsc-rs gives videos an old VHS look.
★ Taste Skill
A week of design skills for coding agents. Our pick, Taste Skill, pushes an agent to make pages with real art direction instead of a template look. Diagram Design draws clean diagrams in your own colours, and img2threejs turns a photo of an object into a 3D model made of code.
★ theSVG
A week for icons and the small details around them. Our pick, theSVG, puts over 7,600 brand logos in one searchable library of clean SVG files. AnimateIcons adds icons that move on hover, and ascii.rest has animated text art for loaders and charts.
★ AnythingLLM
A busy week for AI that stays on your own computer. Our pick, AnythingLLM, answers questions from your own PDFs without sending them anywhere, and Ollama runs the models behind it.
★ Cherry Studio
This week leans towards people who build with AI. Cherry Studio puts many AI models in one desktop window, and the skills and MCP servers lists show how to give an assistant real tools.
★ darktable
A week for photos, sound and small helpers. Our pick, darktable, is a full RAW photo editor that costs nothing, and Audacity is still the easiest way to clean up a voice recording.
Earlier weeks
6 issues so far
No. 05W44Taste Skill26 October – 1 November 2026 · 12 picksAI skills and prompts
No. 04W43theSVG19–25 October 2026 · 12 picksIcons, images and video
No. 03W42AnythingLLM12–18 October 2026 · 10 picksAI tools
No. 02W41Cherry Studio5–11 October 2026 · 12 picksAI tools
No. 01W40darktable28 September – 4 October 2026 · 8 picksDesign tools