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!

Comments & Discussion

39 Comments

http://iampaulburgess.co.uk/ Paul Burgess

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.
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Very nice post. These textures look great.
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Nice post. I like these textures really!! I hope i find a reason to try them.
prasad

i m really liking this and i will try to use in some my design to have a better look
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http://www.design-gate.com Sang Valte

Thanks for the textures!! Very helpful!

Mozart and Warm Grunge are my favorites! :)
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http://azizuanaziz.blogspot.com/ Azizuan Aziz

thanks for the resource
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http://heedingthemuses.wordpress.com/texture-links/ NL Schober

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
http://www.risingtiger.com Davis Hammon

Thank you so much for compiling this list. Some truly fabulous textures to be found through here.

Thank you much for the post.
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Definitely took #3 Grandma’s house and used it for my twitter background.
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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 ;)
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Now I’m determined to find projects I can use these in. Thanks for the great collection.
http://n/a Blossom Hackett

Just excelent work & collection espacially for beginers like me who cannot afford to pay & buy one. I apprciate this kind gensture & may Gos bless each one of you for this kind genorisity.
Since I am still working on my front web page will be making use of you help, right now I am all confused which one to use because they All are Beautiful.
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I’m glad to see people helping without a lot of demands and other craps! Excellent selection, thanks a lot!
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Great selection of textures. I really love the Rock Band texture. Can’t wait to get my creative juices flowing with those ;) Thanks for sharing.
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Wow. Fantastic collection – thanks for sharing those textures! “Hidden Message” is my favorite one.
http://www.craigpennings.com Craig Pennings

Very impressive and diverse textures, I look forward to implementing them in designs.
yusri

very usefull and thank… from malaysia with love
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a very characteristic texture, thanks, I was greatly assisted by this
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I have lots more free quality, high res textures, for both commercial and personal use at Texturegen Free Textures.
http://designshack.co.uk/articles/inspiration/50-outstanding-free-design-textures?& Archibald

Wow! Thank you so much! I always aspired to generate at my online site the like.
http://www.redillusion.com Hassan

Hey this is just awesome. I was finding almost this. Thanks for sharing.

Hassan
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Louis

I’ve been finding some textures for my works. Finally I got it. Really thank you

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