Art & Design – Free-tier APIs
26 Free-tier APIs in the category Art & Design. Free public web APIs that developers and AI agents can call. Entries come from the open public-apis list; each link was checked automatically (HTTP status) on the date shown, which says the site responded, not that the API is good.
3DTexel
Search free CC0 PBR materials, HDRIs, decals and 3D models for games
Cooper Hewitt
Smithsonian Design Museum
Dribbble
Discover the world’s top designers & creatives
DummyImage
Generate placeholder images with custom size, colors and text
EmojiHub
Get emojis by categories and groups
Europeana
European Museum and Galleries content
Face Shape Guide Lookup
Read-only lookup for published face-shape guide records
Favicondl
Get any website's favicon by URL (SVG/PNG/ICO), with JSON metadata and fallbacks
Icon Horse
Favicons for any website, with fallbacks
Iconfinder
Icons
Iconify
Search and fetch SVG icons from 200+ open source icon sets
Icons8
Icons (find "search icon" hyperlink in page)
Lordicon
Icons with predone Animations
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Met Museum of Art
PHP-Noise
Noise Background Image Generator
PickShade
Convert colors, check WCAG and APCA contrast, build palettes, gradients and tokens
raFont
1,500+ free downloadable fonts with categories, tags and preview images
Rijksmuseum
RijksMuseum Data
Smithsonian Open Access
Smithsonian collection metadata and open-access digital media
Text-till-Kladdesign
AI fashion design generator — transform Swedish text into clothing concepts
The Color API
Convert and generate color schemes
Thisispaper
Curated architecture, design, photography and art projects with visual-similarity and taste metadata
UpRes
AI image upscaling to 8K with 18 models (Real-ESRGAN, SeedVR2, AuraSR)
Word Cloud
Easily create word clouds