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50 Outstanding Free Design Textures
A few good textures can take a boring design and turn into something stunning. As a designer, you should seek to build a library of all kinds of textures to complement a range of styles. Here are 50 completely free and ready to download textures to get you started.
01 Beyond Its Prime
02 Water Damage
03 Grandma’s House
04 Mozart
05 Cracked
06 Beveled
07 Hidden Message
08 Sing Along
09 Warm Grunge
10 Leafy
11 Stoned
12 Veins
13 The Answer
14 Bouquet of Bokeh
15 Panels
16 Soft and Comfy
17 Jump In
18 Tetanus
19 Bubbles!
20 Lucky
21 Chipped
22 Really Chipped
23 Scratchy
24 Corky
25 Up the Wrong Tree
26 The Matrix Has You
27 Blue Haze
28 Flame Retardant
29 Snap Crackle Pop
30 Rock Band
31 Bark
32 Sandwich
33 Let Me Out
34 Pieta
35 Newsies
36 Whole Grain
37 Wrinkled
38 Hidden Treasure
39 In London Town
40 Fallout
41 Maze
42 Graffiti
43 Parched
44 Noisy
45 Blurry
46 Rolling Hills
47 Tesla
48 Strung Up
49 The City
50 The Good Days
Where Credit Is Due
Thanks for checking out our post of 50 free design textures! Remember that even though these are all free for you to use in your designs, several of the photographers request that you simply give them credit for the photo when you use it. This can be as simple as a link on the bottom of a page, or a reference in a blog post.
Leave a comment and let us know if you liked the post and how you plan on using the textures in your own work!
A great collection ,I love Up The Wrong Tree and Warm Grunge, would love to use those in some artwork. Thanks for including some of my Urban Dirty ones too. Hope people enjoy them.
Very nice post. These textures look great.
Nice post. I like these textures really!! I hope i find a reason to try them.
i m really liking this and i will try to use in some my design to have a better look
Thanks for the textures!! Very helpful!
Mozart and Warm Grunge are my favorites! :)
thanks for the resource
thank you for including two of my textures. I encourage to look at my set on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nancee_art/sets/72157613435729262/
And I’ve put links to tutorials on how to use textures on my blog
http://heedingthemuses.wordpress.com/texture-links/
nancee_art
Thank you so much for compiling this list. Some truly fabulous textures to be found through here.
Thank you much for the post.
Definitely took #3 Grandma’s house and used it for my twitter background.
I really love this list! I’m just in the beginning of my experiences with textures, so I don’t know what I will use them for ;)
Now I’m determined to find projects I can use these in. Thanks for the great collection.