Cartoon Characters
Last Updated on August 1, 2026 by Editorial Team
This cartoon characters set appeared in State of Stack – a survey app for developers, made by developers. Download and enjoy using these cartoon characters in your projects for free!
Includes
- 2 volumes of high-quality cartoon characters
- Sketch and Vector formats
Designed by Bartosz Bąk for Netguru.
Each character in this set is built from the same friendly formula: a rounded head, simple facial features with just enough expression to feel alive, and a cropped torso with a graphic symbol on the shirt.
The blonde woman with glasses and a robot icon reads as a QA or product tester, the developer in the code-bracket tee is clearly an engineer, the guy with the red triangle looks like he could be flagging a bug or an alert, and the woman with the gold star badge suggests a top performer or team lead.
That kind of visual shorthand is exactly why this set works so well for anything related to software teams, developer culture, or tech products.
The palette stays warm and approachable: teal, coral, mustard yellow, and sky blue against flat skin tones, all rendered in the same flat-illustration style with soft drop shadows beneath each bust.
Nothing is overly detailed or textured, which means these characters sit comfortably next to UI screenshots, dashboards, or clean sans-serif type without fighting for attention.
They read as avatars first and illustrations second, which is precisely the job they’re meant to do.
Where These Characters Work Best
Because the set originated from a developer survey app, it’s a natural fit for anything touching engineering teams: onboarding flows, team pages, changelog graphics, or a “meet the developers” section on a SaaS site.
The icons on each shirt also make them useful as role markers in a product walkthrough, letting you assign a recognizable face to “the coder,” “the tester,” or “the reviewer” without writing extra labels.
- User personas and journey maps for tech or SaaS products
- Placeholder avatars in app mockups, chat UIs, or comment sections
- Testimonial and review sections where a friendly face softens the copy
- Slide decks and pitch materials for developer tools or B2B software
- Blog headers and social posts about coding culture or remote teams
Editing them is straightforward since they’re vector-based. Ungroup a character and you can swap the shirt color to match your brand palette, or recolor the hair and skin tone to build a more diverse lineup from the four already provided.
The shirt icons are separate enough that you can drop in your own symbol, a company logo, a department badge, or a different pictogram, without redrawing the whole figure.
Scaling is clean at any size since there’s no fine texture to degrade, so the same character can anchor a small avatar circle or blow up as a hero illustration on a landing page.
For pairing, keep supporting graphics in the same flat, shadowless style so the characters don’t look pasted onto a mismatched background.
A rounded sans-serif typeface echoes the softness of the character shapes nicely, and solid color blocks or simple geometric patterns behind them tend to work better than photographic backgrounds.
If you need more figures than the four shown, duplicating one and changing hair, shirt color, and icon is a fast way to extend the cast without breaking the visual consistency of the set.
