Art and design APIs offer access to museum collections, color palettes, fonts, and creative tools. Build applications that inspire creativity or integrate visual assets into your projects.
Last verified: November 12, 2026
| Name | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS | Uptime (30 days) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3DTexel | Search free CC0 PBR materials, HDRIs, decals and 3D models for games | none | Yes | yes | 100% (5 checks) |
| Art Institute of Chicago | Art | none | Yes | yes | 100% (5 checks) |
| ColorMagic | Color Palette Generator | none | Yes | yes | 100% (5 checks) |
| Colormind | Color scheme generator | none | No | unknown | 100% (5 checks) |
| ColourLovers | Get various patterns, palettes and images | none | No | unknown | 100% (5 checks) |
| Cooper Hewitt | Smithsonian Design Museum | apikey | Yes | unknown | 100% (5 checks) |
| Dribbble | Discover the world’s top designers & creatives | oauth | Yes | unknown | 100% (5 checks) |
| eeemoji | Emoji metadata: names, keywords, categories, shortcodes and skin-tone variants | none | Yes | yes | 100% (5 checks) |
| EmojiHub | Get emojis by categories and groups | none | Yes | yes | 100% (5 checks) |
| Europeana | European Museum and Galleries content | apikey | Yes | unknown | 100% (5 checks) |
| Face Shape Guide Lookup | Read-only lookup for published face-shape guide records | none | Yes | yes | 100% (5 checks) |
| Favicondl | Get any website's favicon by URL (SVG/PNG/ICO), with JSON metadata and fallbacks | none | Yes | yes | 100% (5 checks) |
| GetGenAI (Packaging Compliance Review) | Compliance review API for product labels and marketing assets — automated checks against regulations, retailer specs, and brand guidelines, always up to date | apikey | Yes | no | 100% (5 checks) |
| Harvard Art Museums | Art | apikey | No | unknown | 100% (5 checks) |
| Icon Horse | Favicons for any website, with fallbacks | none | Yes | yes | 80.0% (5 checks) |
| Iconfinder | Icons | apikey | Yes | unknown | 100% (5 checks) |
| Iconify | Search and fetch SVG icons from 200+ open source icon sets | none | Yes | yes | 100% (5 checks) |
| Magnific Icons API | Icon search and download API by Freepik (formerly Iconfinder) | apikey | Yes | unknown | 100% (5 checks) |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | Met Museum of Art | none | Yes | no | 100% (5 checks) |
| Noun Project | Icons | oauth | No | unknown | 100% (5 checks) |
| Paint Color HQ | Closest real paint colors across 13 brands for any hex value, scored with CIEDE2000 | none | Yes | yes | 100% (4 checks) |
| Pic2svg | Trace raster images into SVG filled paths with a keyless JSON HTTP API; daily usage limits apply | none | Yes | no | 100% (5 checks) |
| PickShade | Convert colors, check WCAG and APCA contrast, build palettes, gradients and tokens | none | Yes | yes | 100% (5 checks) |
| Picsart | Image & video editing, generative AI, 100+ AI models via unified API | apikey | Yes | yes | 100% (5 checks) |
| Pika | Image Generation API | apikey | Yes | yes | 100% (5 checks) |
| raFont | 1,500+ free downloadable fonts with categories, tags and preview images | none | Yes | yes | 100% (5 checks) |
| Rijksmuseum | RijksMuseum Data | apikey | Yes | unknown | 80.0% (5 checks) |
| Smithsonian Open Access | Smithsonian collection metadata and open-access digital media | apikey | Yes | unknown | 100% (5 checks) |
| Sticker Shop | Pop art on demand: comic bursts, speech balloons, rubber stamps and retro error windows with your own text, as SVG or PNG | none | Yes | yes | 100% (5 checks) |
| TatSeek | Search credited tattoo work, artists and studios by style, subject, placement and city. Read-only JSON with source links. | none | Yes | yes | 100% (5 checks) |
| Text-till-Kladdesign | AI fashion design generator — transform Swedish text into clothing concepts | apikey | Yes | yes | 100% (5 checks) |
| The Color API | Convert and generate color schemes | none | Yes | yes | 100% (5 checks) |
| Thisispaper | Curated architecture, design, photography and art projects with visual-similarity and taste metadata | apikey | Yes | yes | 100% (5 checks) |
| UpRes | AI image upscaling to 8K with 18 models (Real-ESRGAN, SeedVR2, AuraSR) | apikey | Yes | yes | 100% (5 checks) |
| Word Cloud | Easily create word clouds | apikey | Yes | unknown | 100% (5 checks) |
| xColors | Generate & convert colors | none | Yes | yes | 100% (5 checks) |
20 of these APIs require no authentication — you can start making requests immediately without signing up for an account. Just pick one from the table above, check its documentation, and send your first request.
14 APIs in this category require a free API key. This usually means creating a free account on the provider's website and copying your key from the dashboard. The process typically takes less than a minute.
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