Four free design tools for art directors, designers and anyone who has ever been asked to make it POP. No login. No credit card. No crying to your boss.

Open the labs

There are approximately 4,817 design tools on Planet Earth that want your credit card.

I made that number up. It felt low.

So why Useful As Fuck? Because Useful As Fuck is free, fast and built by someone who designs every single day. Under deadline. Crying a little.

Four labs.
Zero invoices.

Everything an art director reaches for between the briefing and the deadline. No trial, no account, no "talk to sales".

Free as fuck.

Because who has money these days? Rent took it. Groceries took the rest. Trump is beefing with Iran. Your design tools shouldn't take what's left.

Broke

€0a month
  • All four labs
  • Unlimited palettes, mockups and manuals
  • Unlimited swearing
Go Broke
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Pro

€0a month
  • Exactly the same as Broke
  • But you get to call yourself Pro
  • Confidence boost included
Go Pro

Enterprise

€0a month
  • Same again
  • Plus the warm glow of saving the company money
  • Bring it up in your annual review
Go Enterprise

Small print, because I'm honest: a few extras unlock after a short ad. Somebody has to pay for the coffee, and it isn't going to be you.

Hi. I'm Nikoline. I was tired as fuck.

By day I'm Art Director at Vestjysk Marketing, the least prestigious marketing agency you've never heard of. It's in Ringkøbing. There's wind. There's a fjord. There are no awards on the wall, mostly because nobody budgeted for a wall.

For years my workflow looked like this: one tab for palettes. One for contrast. One for Pantone. One for the font I couldn't afford. One to check whether Instagram was about to crop the CEO's head off. Eleven tabs, three paywalls, one very tired woman.

So one evening, somewhere between the third Faxe Kondi Booster and the fourth "tiny change" from a client, I built the tool I actually needed. Then another one. Then four. They're free because I remember being broke. Honestly, I still am.

Useful beats pretty. But why not both?

NikolineFounder, Art Director and Chief Swearing Officer

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House rules

Your stuff stays yours.

No accounts, no uploads. Palettes, fonts and images live in your own browser and nowhere else.

Built under real deadlines.

Every feature exists because an actual client project needed it. Usually yesterday.

Swearing is optional. Usefulness isn't.

Four tools that do one job properly beat one platform that does forty jobs badly.

Stop paying.
Start making.

Open the labs

Whoa. Tiny screen.

The labs are proper work tools. They want a big screen, a mouse and a deadline breathing down your neck. On a phone they're about as useful as a fax machine.

Copy the link and open it on your desktop later. It'll be here. Free as fuck.