100 Useful Free Textures
In Web design, texture is one of those elements that are widely used by designers, yet often hardly noticed by users. We don’t see them is because they usually remain in the background and supporting the overall design. Used primarily for background images, they need to fit to the overall design making the content easier to perceive.
Textures are not necessarily used in fashion-related or grungy websites; more often they are applied subtly to lend a personal tone to otherwise lifeless and faceless design elements. Textures are also often be used in combination with other elements such as typography, lighting and colors. They are most common for backgrounds, but are also use to fresh up a flat and boring appearance of design elements. Texture adds dimension to virtually any style of design, if applied properly. They also add a certain level of realism, creating a less formal, more inviting and aesthetically pleasing atmosphere that reflects our environment — after all, plain flat surfaces rarely exist in reality.
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You can find some examples of textures applied to web design.
Grunge Style
Metal & Metallic Texture
Wood Textures
Cloth & Fabric
Drains Textures
Wall Textures
Paper & Cardboard Textures
Tiles & Patterns Textures
Miscellaneous
Thanks for this awesome collection of textures… Don’t think we need to look anywhere else.
Wow, exactly what I needed for many of my projects! Thanks a lot for such a nice set!
Thanks for the featuring!
Don’t think there was a texture that I didn’t like or couldn’t use! great list.
That is an excellent collection of textures. I had forgotten about some of those sites.
These textures are amazing :) Great post man !
Nice stuff, thank you.
Wow~ Thanks a lot
Thanks for sharing this list. I have building my textures slowly. These will surely help with that!
Thank you so much.
This is HUGE !!
It’s wonderful, I appreciate that
I use textures a lot so this post is very helpful. Cool set dude! thanks for the links also!
These are great, thanks for taking time to make this list!
This is a really great post with a LOT of great resources. I am bookmarking this right now. Very nice!
That’s quite an impressive texture collection, thanks
Where can I read the license agreements? I can’t find them.
In checking out some of these, it’s clear that some are not free for use on anything other than a personal blog that does not earn an income… so use on personal blogs with ads or sponsors is even prohibited. It’s fine to add a disclaimer to check license agreements, but I must say it’s disheartening to waste time checking out items listed in a ‘free for personal or commercial use’ post only to be let down repeatedly. It’s a waste of time. Some of these are beautiful, but as art alone; stipulations for use are far too strict for them to be anything else. :-(
Nice selection. Thanks :-)
Love this selection. Thanks.