Blackboard and full letter/symbol – free high res texture set
August 20th, 2010
It’s fall and that of course means the back to school season, though the retail markets start their back to school stocking in July. I think that is a little ridiculous. But what I have for you here is a very large set of high resolution textures that can be used for any kind of back to school, education, or classroom type advertising or imagery. The following textures have been created on a real antique schoolhouse slate. Yes, the stone. The ‘board’ was very heavy but as authentic as it gets. Thanks to my sister-in-law Becky for letting me use it.
So what I have for you here are three high-res seamless textures of blackboard slate itself, followed by a full letter set (3 upper case and 2 lower case of each letter) and numbers (2 of each number) and symbols (one of each). So it is quite a large set of textures, all available completely free. I ask that you give me a notice if you use them. You can use them for anything, commercial or personal, 2D or 3D. Just don’t turn around and sell them.
Each letter/symbol image is 1436px square. Each blackboard background is different, so you can see those below. All of the letters/symbol images are transparent .png files, so that they can be used on nearly any surface, but more easily combined into an image like the one I made for the header of this blog post. The tileable backgrounds are .jpg files.
For the entire texture pack, download this .zip file. (86Mb). This is the only way to get the letters, numbers, and symbols.
For example of the letters, here is the full set of As:
Here are the seamless blackboard background textures (available individually):
Blackboard 1
Full size image here. (2562px x 2552px – 3.33MB)
Seen here repeated four times:
Blackboard 2
Full size image here. (2400px x 2492px – 2.18MB)
Seen here repeated four times:
Blackboard Smooth
Full size image here. (2400px x 2492px – 2.13MB)
Seen here repeated four times:
Texture suggestions?
If you have any suggestions on future tileable, or otherwise, texture sets just pop in a comment below or send me a message. And see the links below for other free high res seamless textures.
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12 Comments »
Hi Chris! Thanks so much for sharing these and for your kindness in offering them for free! How awesome are you?
I am using the slate as part of a flyer for a fundraiser for our school!
Thanks again and have a great day!
Claudia
I’m glad someone was able to use them! I’d love to see the final product if you don’t mind sharing!
And I will be giving more stuff away in the future, so you should definitely subscribe to the blog!
Cheers and thanks for coming by
Thanks a lot, I turned it into a green one, like I had when I was in school, the typo is excellent for my purposes, good job!
Excellent! I’ve seen the green ones too. Glad you like it.
Thanks for this wonderful project. It was exactly what I needed for our home page this week (http://med.uth.tmc.edu/). I’m going to send you a shout-out on my personal Facebook account.
Cheers!
Carlos
thanks Carlos, glad you could get some use out of it. Cheers
Hey Chris,
thanks a lot for these, I actually plan on using them in an iPhone app im currently developing.
I wonder how hard it would be to convert the letters/symbols into a true type font..
Thanks
Chris
Hi Christoph, glad they worked out for you. Turning them into a workable font is actually something I’ve been seriously considering, especially considering how popular these have turned out to be. I suggest subscribing to my blog so you catch them when I release them. Cheers
Thank you for the awesome lettering and blackboards. I have used them for http://www.boredombusters.co.za/ that I’m making for a friend. Well, for the “coming at some stage” sign. We might use them for the site once it is made, so if you don’t see them there it’s because the site got finished without them.
Thanks again, I need to have a look at what else you have available. A font made of the lettering would be awesome!
Cheers!
Hey Ryan that worked perfect for what you made. I think im definitely going to have to make that font! Cheers!
Cheers for these, excellent source for making dusty floor textures.
Thanks for posting the free blackboard textures. I’m using one in a motion graphics project. I’ll post a link when it is finished. Thanks again!