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If you ever find yourself with a lack of design inspiration, you could always look at some beautiful typography, or get some new & beautiful fonts to experiment with. I should probably take my own advice in this case and get some more fonts, so I swear I will right after this!

Places to look

Whenever you ask about free fonts, you’ll always be directed to dafont of course, but you should also check out urbanfonts and fontspace.

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Smashing Texture Contest Results

We have received over 740 e-mails from over 600 participants, resulting in far more than 2000 photos. The result, however, is not just literally zillion of textures, but truly brilliant textures you can use in your private and professional projects for free.

There are some truly brilliant textures among the new galleries, and you can use them in any project completely free! Definitely worth checking out if you’re into textures.

Hi guys, I’ve got a freebie for you!

I’ve made some random doodlings and converted them to vector format, for your viewing and designing pleasures! If you like the look of the preview image below, you should download the files and check ‘em out.

How to use them

Well, you can either download the .ai file or the .psd file, then you can open them up in either Photoshop or Illustrator, then get designing. A lot of these will probably work best blending them into the background.

How to make them

I made these using a permanent marker on paper. To make your own:

1. Use a permanent marker, paints, etc on paper
2. Scan it in, open the image(s)
3. Use the ‘live trace’ feature in Adobe Illustrator

Download

To download .rar files you have to right-click the link and click save target as or save link as.

Download the .ai (1mb Illustrator file)
Download the .psd (175kb Photoshop file)

Thanks for looking.

There have been several sites lately that incorporate wood in the design in some way or another. It gives a site a warm and natural feel, and can help make the design look great when done tastefully. If you have yet to do a design with wood, here are a few textures that might help you get in on the action.

Free Wood Textures

Via Design Reviver (source)

Yes… yes… yes! Just found some absolutely beautiful paper textures on Bittbox, be sure to check these out, these can be a great help for spicing up a sometimes bland piece of artwork. Trust me, I know

Free High Res Grungy Paper Textures via Bittbox.

Are there any metal-texture-loving-photoshoppers here? If there is, you’ll definitely be interested in checking out Filter Forge’s free Photoshop plugin that generates realistic metal. Some examples are: diamond plate metal, tin foil, and ‘alien metal.’

In my honest opinion, this is and absolutely awesome tool! I especially like the diamond plate texture. Did I say it was free? One of the best features about this plugin, in my opinion, is the option to make the texture tileable. What more could you ask for? It’s definitely worth checking out.

Go check it out at the official Filter Forge website.

There actually isn’t many on the web, but these are the best that I could find. Pixel patterns are great for using as website background images, banner textures, and limitless other things! Patterns are great for quickly and easily spicing up the look of images, so go ahead, give them a try!

Squidfingers

Kaliber10k

DeviantART

Brussheezy Patterns

Know of any more good ones? Please leave a comment below and I’ll add it!

These are all pretty old, but I thought I’d share them around anyway. They’re really useful for tons of things, signatures probably being the most common, but also headers, banners, whatever really, you just have to be creative!

So, click the preview images below and you’ll be taken to the full-sized .png files, which you can copy onto your Photoshop canvas.

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Emerald

GrayGrey

Grudge

Purple

Seriously though, these can be used for heaps of things, just get creative! Anyway, good luck, and I hope you liked at least one of them

Note: Yes, the names are random!