15 Brown Paper & Cardboard Textures

Today's set of textures should come in handy when you want to add a subtle texture to your designs or illustrations. It includes 15 various cardboard and brown paper textures. Try using them in simple overlays on your designs to add a hint of tangible texture.

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18 Hand Stained & Colored Paper Textures

I've got a highly useful set of stained paper textures for you guys today. These were made by using a combination of watercolors and food coloring to stain the paper. I then pressed some of them onto a plate of dried paint to give them a more grungy, block-print feel. I've seen a lot of people using these types of textures lately in digital illustration. Using the textures as an overlay in photoshop helps provide a feeling of handmade artwork. I hope you guys find them useful!

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14 Free Simple Fabric Textures

Sometimes the most useful textures can also be the most simple. Today's set of fabric textures fall into that category. Maybe they're not the most complex or beautiful textures I've released, but they serve a great purpose to the design community. More and more these days people are incorporating the use of subtle tactile textures to bring a worn, real-world feeling to the work. If you think about it, fabric is one texture that all of us come in contact with every single day of our lives. It's familiar, and this translates well into design.

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Five Free Delicate Grungy Textures

I both loath and love the fall months. The weather is beautiful, as are the colors of the trees and leaves, but the fact that the cold winter months are coming is always in the back of my mind. These five delicately grungy textures are a sort of ode to this time of the year. The color inspiration came from the purple and reddish hues the appear when the sun hits the dead leaves on the ground later in the day. Sometimes it's the little things that inspire.

They were created by mixing muddy and grungy images with some leftover paper scans I had from the last set. I layered them in Photoshop with various blending modes and a healthy dose of coloring. In total, each texture consists of five various ones blended together to get the final effect. Hopefully you guys can find some unique uses for them in your work.

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25 Deconstructed Vintage Book Textures

The paper and book textures I release here on L&T are some of the most popular ones, and with good reason... they can be used in nearly every type of design and are perfect for adding just a hint of texture to your work. Today's set of 25 vintage book textures came from eight late 19th and early 20th century books I purchased at a small bookstore near where I live. I love sifting through the books discovering naturally worn textures and reading the inscriptions made many decades ago. Hopefully you guys can find some great uses for them!

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