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Design resource register: resource and provider, licence type, commercial-use and attribution rules, export format, lock-in risk, free tier limit and accessibility notes. Use for tool vetting.
When to use
- free design tools, free alternatives, "what can we use for nothing"
- free fonts, free icons, free images, free templates, stock photography
- licensing, licence terms, commercial use, attribution, redistribution
- "can we use this", "is this free to use", "is this allowed for a client"
- tool consolidation, cancelling a subscription, reducing design spend
- design accessibility, contrast checking, free colour palette tools
- brand kit on a zero budget, open source design system
When not to use
- This skill does not grant a licence, and it is not legal advice. Licence interpretation,
- Terms change. Nothing in this table is a guarantee of what a provider permits on any future
- Free tiers change without notice, including their limits, their AI-training clauses, and
- It cannot audit an existing design for licence compliance. It registers what the business
- It cannot evaluate whether a resource is actually free in practice, only what its terms
- It does not create, generate, edit or convert any design asset. It has no image, font or
- It does not assess artistic quality, brand fit or suitability for a specific audience.
- Accessibility notes record what is documented. Conformance with WCAG 2.2 AA on a real page
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