Our 4 best websites with free or low cost texture assets

We love it when creators generously share their favourite websites, hacks, tips and tricks! We all share this love for design, so why not help each other out? 🤝 Here are a few online resources we've come across over the years that have helped us out on projects, sparked new creative ideas and solved problems at just the right time. We hope these fonts, graphics, textures and assets will elevate your work the same way it did ours.

First off is Grandpa, with accessible design resources for all. Grandpa was created to combat the elitist, competitive, and capitalist graphic design industry by equalizing access to graphic design education. Grandpa releases political art, hosts fundraisers, promote marginalized artists, and offers free, accessible design resources for all. Grandpa is currently occupying Unceeded Cowlitz Land (so-called “Portland, Oregon”) and was created by anarchist designer and educator, Kel Lauren (they/them).

Studio AAA. They offer a selection of carefully created high-grade, hand-made design resources specifically created to save you time and money, no matter what project you're working on.

Hvnter.net offers you a selection of free or afforable typefaces, perfect for a hyper modern cyber punk aesthetic. You will also find a variety of icons and graphics! When using free assets, they encourage you to tag @hvnt.ter on instagram.

True Grit Texture Supply is a fantastic source of genuine grit overlays and wonderfully textured brushes for both Photoshop and Procreate. You will find free assets as well as affordable and esstial texture packs that will instantly take your graphics work to a professional level.

True Grit textures allowed us create an old school grainy effect for the cover art of Mother Mersy's 2022 release 'See right through ya'.

It also supplied us with both brushes and paper textures for the illustration of Swedish jazz act Alla får medalj's debut album 'Låtar om fåglar och annat', giving the digital illustrations an analog touch.