So I thought another way of seeing how the theme handles things is with a post containing various brushes, fonts, textures and other resources that I’ve come across whilst meandering around the Internet. It’s amazing how much high quality stuff people are prepared to put out for free use.

So without further ado here’s my first list.

Paper Textures by Bleeding-​​Dragon on dA. After seeing brown paper being put to such good use in the design of Blog.SpoonGraphics I found these textures to be pretty useful for some good old fashioned tactile design. Chris Spooner himself provides further high res brown paper textures on his blog.

Dirty Sprays Photoshop Brushes by David Leggett of Tutorial9. Among the numerous things over at Tutorial9 I chose these Dirty Spray brushes because I always like a bit of grungey work. The best bit about grunge work is overlaying the brushes to create a really rich texture and feel to the work.

Watercolour Photoshop Brushes on Bittbox. There are two sets there each with ridiculously high resolution watercolour brushes, he was really pushing the limits of Photoshop brushes when making these. Although I only threw the image together in a few seconds I’m sure there’s a really good use people can find putting these to. Bittbox is full of textures and brushes too.

World Map Vector by Mac Daddy Design. I found this thanks to Chris Spooner’s blog and it’s an amazingly detailed and useful resource and as a Vector it can go as big as you want and be edited to remove parts you don’t need. You can see the original post and find more map vectors.

Fontalicious make some excellent fonts, and they’re all free. You’ve got to have a wild streak to like some of them but they’re pretty funky and I like them. The above image was made with the help of this tutorial.

Okay so I’ll admit that I originally posted it at my first WordPress blog but very few people would have seen it. Since then I’ve spruced it up and reposted it here.