Free public APIs for art & design, each one verified and kept up to date.
31 listed · 18 need no key · 10 work in the browser
Art & Design
The Art Institute of Chicago's API allows developers to explore and integrate the museum’s public data into their projects. This API is the same tool that powers the website, the mobile app, and many other technologies in the museum.
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Generate placeholder images with custom size, colors and text
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Read-only lookup for published face-shape guide records
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Icons (find "search icon" hyperlink in page)
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Access over 470,000 artworks with metadata and high-resolution images from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection. Search by title, tags, department, and more. No API key required.
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Noise Background Image Generator
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Your fast, modern, swiss army knife for color. Pass in any valid color and get conversion into any other format, the name of the color, placeholder images and a multitude of schemes. There are only two endpoints you need to worry about, /id and /scheme, and you can read the docs about both. Each endpoint is available in JSON[P], HTML & SVG format. The SVG format can be saved or used as an img[src] attribute for super-easy embedding/sharing!
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Search free CC0 PBR materials, HDRIs, decals and 3D models for games
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Color scheme generator
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Get various patterns, palettes and images
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Emoji metadata: names, keywords, categories, shortcodes and skin tones
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Get random emojis or access the entire emoji database by category or group. Easily retrieve html codes to use in web applications.
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Favicons for any website, with fallbacks
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Search and fetch SVG icons from 200+ open source icon sets
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Icons with predone Animations
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Convert colors, check WCAG and APCA contrast, build palettes, gradients and tokens
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SVG Icon Generator
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1,500+ free downloadable fonts with categories, tags and preview images
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Generate images for Discord users
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Smithsonian Design Museum
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Discover the world’s top designers & creatives
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European Museum and Galleries content
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Stock resources(Icons, videos, photos), AI image generation and editing tools
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Art
Counts and timings below come from our own scheduled checks of this category.
We track 31 in this category, of which 25 responded at our last check. 18 of them need no API key.
18 of the 31 entries here need no credential. Filter this page by "no key" to see them, or browse the no-key collection for every keyless API across all categories.
10 entries in this category need no key and return CORS headers, which is the combination that lets you call them straight from client-side JavaScript. The rest need a server or a proxy in between.
Of the keyless options that responded at our last check, ColourLovers was quickest at a median 364 ms. Speed is only one factor — coverage and licensing usually matter more — but it is measured here rather than claimed.
We call every listing on a schedule and record the status code, response time and whether CORS headers came back. Those results drive the badges on this page. Across the whole catalogue, 361 of 3,005 entries were not responding at the last full run, which is the sort of thing an unchecked list never tells you.