November 2024 – Fuel Your Blog

November 20, 2024

Fonts That Speak: Typography as a Storytelling Tool in Modern Design

Typography plays a pivotal role in every design and it has the power to make or break a creation or sometimes even an entire business.

While good typography has helped businesses boost revenue bad typography has cost brands millions, mainly as a result of disregard for the psychological effects and the user experience of typography design.

The style and design of the fonts you use are just as important as the wording you choose for the messages in a design. As the German typographer Hans Peter Willberg once said, “typefaces are not only there to be read, you also see them.”

Let’s dive into the world of typography design and explore how it relates to storytelling to figure out how you can leverage it.

Importance of Typography in Storytelling

For centuries, typography has been more of an art form than just text. The history of calligraphy dates all the way back to 200 BCE. In every ancient culture, from China to Greece and Rome, the inscriptionists and writers always put an emphasis on making letters look beautiful.

Even today, great designers go the extra mile to make typography look exceptional and stand out, not just to make text and titles beautiful but also to improve readability and user experience. And it’s especially a key aspect in storytelling.

Take a wedding invitation, for example. A handpicked script handwritten or calligraphy-style font goes a long way to make the entire invitation look romantic and create a meaningful connection with the reader.

On the other hand, a bad choice of fonts can completely ruin the entire purpose of the design as well as the reputation of the brand.

Or it could even ruin an important awards ceremony, like the Oscars 2017.

To tell a great story, you need good copy. A brilliantly worded story can deliver a message much more effectively than a statement. But, you also need the right font to create a meaningful and emotional connection through that story.

How Typography Evokes Emotions

There’s a psychological impact behind the different styles of fonts you use in design. Have you noticed how brands from certain industries always prefer to use serif fonts while businesses in the creative industry stick to sans-serif fonts?

Even when creating designs related to certain topics, you will choose fonts appropriately. For a nature-themed design, you will use a brush font. Or for an urban-themed design, you will prefer a graffiti-style font.

No matter which style of font you use, typography has the ability to evoke emotions. Sometimes, seeing a classic retro-style font in an advertisement will take you back to your childhood. Or a handwritten text will remind you of a note from your mother.

Typography also plays a role in conveying the overall mood of the design. Depending on the context, it could make you hungry, thirsty, happy, sad, or even disgusted at times.

Typography as a Visual Voice

Typography is a defining factor of the visual voice and tone of your brand’s messaging. With the correct font, you can choose to make your message formal or playful.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but more often than not, you’d be lost without the words. The example above shows the power of the word and the importance of the font choices.

Fonts are often used to give designs a personality. There’s a reason why you almost always see handwritten script fonts in Christmas-themed designs. Or serif fonts in luxury branding designs. It’s all part of creating an overall visual voice and tone for the design.

Guiding Readers on a Journey

Take a closer look at this article you’re reading. You’ll notice how easy it is to scan through this post, thanks to the subheadings we use throughout the article. In the section below, you’ll see how we create another level to this hierarchy with numbered subheadings to make things even simpler for you to read.

Without the subheadings, bullet points, and numbered lists, this article will be a plain wall of text. You will feel overwhelmed and bored to even attempt to read it.

But, through this typography hierarchy, we are able to take you, the reader, on a journey. Sometimes we’ll use bolded text to emphasize key points or italics to bring more attention to things.

The scale, weight, style, and spacing in typography all play a role in reinforcing narratives and guiding the reader by maintaining their attention. That’s the power of typography!

5 Tips for Typographic Storytelling

There are many factors to consider in typographic storytelling. The following are some of the most important things you should consider for creating effective stories.

1. Consistency and Relevance

When choosing a font, always consider its relevancy to the subject matter as well as the brand messaging. Even though sometimes clients come to you with their own list of font choices, it’s your job as the designer to educate them on the importance of typography design.

Creating a relevant and consistent look for typography should be your number one priority.

2. Importance of Font Pairing

Choosing the right font to accompany your main font is another important part of typographic storytelling. It’s with a good combination of fonts for titles and body text you can create good contrast and hierarchy in designs.

Using flexible fonts with multiple font weights and styles is a great way to make sure your designs can shine on every medium and platform.

3. Ensure Readability

Some fonts will look great on digital designs but come out distorted in prints. Other fonts will often look amazing in large sizes but completely unreadable in small text.

Readability is paramount in every design. You should take time to test every font in different sizes and formats to ensure they look great no matter how and where you use them.

4. Print vs Digital

Understanding the differences between the print and digital mediums is crucial to creating typography designs that resonate with the target audience. People interact with these two platforms very differently. Some users will zoom in and out of a digital design to take a closer look while others read the same text on a giant billboard.

Pay close attention to these requirements and details for more effective typographic storytelling.

5. Follow the Trends

Typography continues to evolve with new and unique trends. Whether it’s variable fonts or 3D color fonts, it’s your job to stay up-to-date on the latest trends and adopt them for appropriate projects. These trends will help elevate your storytelling in modern design.

Conclusion

When talking about typography, we can’t forget about emojis. Like it or not, they are now part of storytelling and how we write and express our emotions. Even the Oxford Dictionary has recognized emojis as words.

Much like the calligraphy letters from ancient times, there will come a day in the distant future when researchers will analyze the meaning behind emojis. That will be our proud contribution to the history of typography.

Nevertheless, you can’t ignore the importance of typography and its impact on storytelling, especially as a designer. So, continue to learn and explore new ways to utilize it to your advantage. You can start by reading up on our top typography trends guide.

November 20, 2024

Invoker Commands: Additional Ways to Work With Dialog, Popover… and More?

The Popover API and <dialog> element are two of my favorite new platform features. In fact, I recently [wrote a detailed overview of their use cases] and the sorts of things you can do with them, even learning a few tricks in the process that I couldn’t find documented anywhere else.

I’ll admit that one thing that I really dislike about popovers and dialogs is that they could’ve easily been combined into a single API. They cover different use cases (notably, dialogs are typically modal) but are quite similar in practice, and yet their implementations are different.

Well, web browsers are now experimenting with two HTML attributes — technically, they’re called “invoker commands” — that are designed to invoke popovers, dialogs, and further down the line, all kinds of actions without writing JavaScript. Although, if you do reach for JavaScript, the new attributes — command and commandfor — come with some new events that we can listen for.

Invoker commands? I’m sure you have questions, so let’s dive in.

We’re in experimental territory

Before we get into the weeds, we’re dealing with experimental features. To use invoker commands today in November 2024 you’ll need Chrome Canary 134+ with the enable-experimental-web-platform-features flag set to Enabled, Firefox Nightly 135+ with the dom.element.invokers.enabled flag set to true, or Safari Technology Preview with the InvokerAttributesEnabled flag set to true.

I’m optimistic we’ll get baseline coverage for command and commandfor in due time considering how nicely they abstract the kind of work that currently takes a hefty amount of scripting.

Basic `command` and `commandfor` usage

First, you’ll need a <button> or a button-esque <input> along the lines of <input type="button"> or <input type="reset">. Next, tack on the command attribute. The command value should be the command name that you want the button to invoke (e.g., show-modal). After that, drop the commandfor attribute in there referencing the dialog or popover you’re targeting by its id.

<button command="show-modal" commandfor="dialogA">Show dialogA</button>

<dialog id="dialogA">...</dialog>

In this example, I have a <button> element with a command attribute set to show-modal and a commandfor attribute set to dialogA, which matches the id of a <dialog> element we’re targeting:

Let’s get into the possible values for these invoker commands and dissect what they’re doing.

Looking closer at the attribute values

The show-modal value is the command that I just showed you in that last example. Specifically, it’s the HTML-invoked equivalent of JavaScript’s showModal() method.

The main benefit is that show-modal enables us to, well… show a modal without reaching directly for JavaScript. Yes, this is almost identical to how HTML-invoked popovers already work with the popovertarget and popovertargetaction attributes, so it’s cool that the “balance is being redressed” as the Open UI explainer describes it, even more so because you can use the command and commandfor invoker commands for popovers too.

There isn’t a show command to invoke show() for creating non-modal dialogs. I’ve mentioned before that non-modal dialogs are redundant now that we have the Popover API, especially since popovers have ::backdrops and other dialog-like features. My bold prediction is that non-modal dialogs will be quietly phased out over time.

The close command is the HTML-invoked equivalent of JavaScript’s close() method used for closing the dialog. You probably could have guessed that based on the name alone!

<dialog id="dialogA">
  <!-- Close #dialogA -->
  <button command="close" commandfor="dialogA">Close dialogA</button>
</dialog>

The `show-popover`, `hide-popover`, and `toggle-popover` values

<button command="show-popover" commandfor="id">

…invokes showPopover(), and is the same thing as:

<button popovertargetaction="show" popovertarget="id">

Similarly:

<button command="hide-popover" commandfor="id">

…invokes hidePopover(), and is the same thing as:

<button popovertargetaction="hide" popovertarget="id">

Finally:

<button command="toggle-popover" commandfor="id">

…invokes togglePopover(), and is the same thing as:

<button popovertargetaction="toggle" popovertarget="id">
<!--  or <button popovertarget="id">, since ‘toggle’ is the default action anyway. -->

I know all of this can be tough to organize in your mind’s eye, so perhaps a table will help tie things together:

`command`	Invokes	`popovertargetaction` equivalent
`show-popover`	`showPopover()`	`show`
`hide-popover`	`hidePopover()`	`hide`
`toggle-popover`	`togglePopover()`	`toggle`

So… yeah, popovers can already be invoked using HTML attributes, making command and commandfor not all that useful in this context. But like I said, invoker commands also come with some useful JavaScript stuff, so let’s dive into all of that.

Listening to commands with JavaScript

Invoker commands dispatch a command event to the target whenever their source button is clicked on, which we can listen for and work with in JavaScript. This isn’t required for a <dialog> element’s close event, or a popover attribute’s toggle or beforetoggle event, because we can already listen for those, right?

For example, the Dialog API doesn’t dispatch an event when a <dialog> is shown. So, let’s use invoker commands to listen for the command event instead, and then read event.command to take the appropriate action.

// Select all dialogs
const dialogs = document.querySelectorAll("dialog");

// Loop all dialogs
dialogs.forEach(dialog => {

  // Listen for close (as normal)
  dialog.addEventListener("close", () => {
    // Dialog was closed
  });

  // Listen for command
  dialog.addEventListener("command", event => {

    // If command is show-modal
    if (event.command == "show-modal") {
      // Dialog was shown (modally)
    }

    // Another way to listen for close
    else if (event.command == "close") {
      // Dialog was closed
    }

  });
});

So invoker commands give us additional ways to work with dialogs and popovers, and in some scenarios, they’ll be less verbose. In other scenarios though, they’ll be more verbose. Your approach should depend on what you need your dialogs and popovers to do.

For the sake of completeness, here’s an example for popovers, even though it’s largely the same:

// Select all popovers
const popovers = document.querySelectorAll("[popover]");

// Loop all popovers
popovers.forEach(popover => {

  // Listen for command
  popover.addEventListener("command", event => {

    // If command is show-popover
    if (event.command == "show-popover") {
      // Popover was shown
    }

    // If command is hide-popover
    else if (event.command == "hide-popover") {
      // Popover was hidden
    }

    // If command is toggle-popover
    else if (event.command == "toggle-popover") {
      // Popover was toggled
    }

  });
});

Being able to listen for show-popover and hide-popover is useful as we otherwise have to write a sort of “if opened, do this, else do that” logic from within a toggle or beforetoggle event listener or toggle-popover conditional. But <dialog> elements? Yeah, those benefit more from the command and commandfor attributes than they do from this command JavaScript event.

Another thing that’s available to us via JavaScript is event.source, which is the button that invokes the popover or <dialog>:

if (event.command == "toggle-popover") {
  // Toggle the invoker’s class
  event.source.classList.toggle("active");
}

You can also set the command and commandfor attributes using JavaScript:

const button = document.querySelector("button");
const dialog = document.querySelector("dialog");

button.command = "show-modal";
button.commandForElement = dialog; /* Not dialog.id */

…which is only slightly less verbose than:

button.command = "show-modal";
button.setAttribute("commandfor", dialog.id);

Creating custom commands

The command attribute also accepts custom commands prefixed with two dashes (--). I suppose this makes them like CSS custom properties but for JavaScript events and event handler HTML attributes. The latter observation is maybe a bit (or definitely a lot) controversial since using event handler HTML attributes is considered bad practice. But let’s take a look at that anyway, shall we?

Custom commands look like this:

<button command="--spin-me-a-bit" commandfor="record">Spin me a bit</button>
<button command="--spin-me-a-lot" commandfor="record">Spin me a lot</button>
<button command="--spin-me-right-round" commandfor="record">Spin me right round</button>

const record = document.querySelector("#record");

record.addEventListener("command", event => {
  if (event.command == "--spin-me-a-bit") {
    record.style.rotate = "90deg";
  } else if (event.command == "--spin-me-a-lot") {
    record.style.rotate = "180deg";
  } else if (event.command == "--spin-me-right-round") {
    record.style.rotate = "360deg";
  }
});

event.command must match the string with the dashed (--) prefix.

Are `popover` and `<dialog>` the only features that support invoker commands?

According to Open UI, invokers targeting additional elements such as <details> were deferred from the initial release. I think this is because HTML-invoked dialogs and an API that unifies dialogs and popovers is a must-have, whereas other commands (even custom commands) feel more like a nice-to-have deal.

However, based on experimentation (I couldn’t help myself!) web browsers have actually implemented additional invokers to varying degrees. For example, <details> commands work as expected whereas <select> commands match event.command (e.g., show-picker) but fail to actually invoke the method (showPicker()). I missed all of this at first because MDN only mentions dialog and popover.

Open UI also alludes to commands for <input type="file">, <input type="number">, <video>, <audio>, and fullscreen-related methods, but I don’t think that anything is certain at this point.

So, what would be the benefits of invoker commands?

Well, a whole lot less JavaScript for one, especially if more invoker commands are implemented over time. Additionally, we can listen for these commands almost as if they were JavaScript events. But if nothing else, invoker commands simply provide more ways to interact with APIs such as the Dialog and Popover APIs. In a nutshell, it seems like a lot of “dotting i’s” and “crossing-t’s” which is never a bad thing.

Invoker Commands: Additional Ways to Work With Dialog, Popover… and More? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

November 20, 2024

55+ Best Free Adobe Illustrator Brushes 2025

If you’re looking for new and creative Illustrator brushes to expand your collection, you’ve come to the right place. In this post, we’re sharing a collection of handpicked and free Adobe Illustrator brushes in various categories.

Whether you’re an artist working on a new drawing or a designer enhancing a digital design, this list has all sorts of Illustrator brushes for everyone. Keep scrolling to explore the collection and be sure to download all the brushes. After all, they are free!

We’ve also created a quick guide on how to add brushes to Illustrator to help you out with installing these.

What Type of Free Illustrator Brush Do You Need?

We’ve broken our collection down into different categories, so you can quickly find just the right Illustrator brush for your project!

Pro Brushes
Watercolor Brushes
Calligraphy Brushes
Paint Brushes
Texture Brushes
Line Art Brushes
Ink Brushes
Abstract Brushes
Hair Brushes

Here are just a few great brushes you can download when you subscribe to Envato Elements.

80+ Watercolor ProBrushes for Illustrator

This is a bundle full of Illustrator brushes with various styles of textures. It includes 83 brushes with watercolor strokes and textures. All of which have been handcrafted by a professional designer. The brushes are available in dry, strokes, thin, and a few other categories and they are compatible with Illustrator CS3 and higher.

28 Shader Brushes for Illustrator

Shading is one of the most time-consuming tasks of digital illustrations. But, with this pack of Illustrator brushes, you’ll be able to cut that work in half. The bundle includes 28 unique shader brushes in 4 categories made just for Illustrator. As an added bonus, it also comes with 12 textures.

Outstanding Oil Paint Brushes for Illustrator

If you’re a fan of oil panting-style drawing, this collection of oil paint brushes will come in handy. It includes 50 different brushes that you can use to draw illustrations with realistic oil painting look and feel. The brushes are compatible with Illustrator CS1 and higher.

Scribble & Scrawl Illustrator Brushes

This is a big collection of scribble brushes that are perfect for your creative and professional art projects. It includes 13 standard scribble brushes and 18 squared scribble brushes as well as lots of long and messy brushes. These are ideal for native, primitive, and child-like art designs.

Fine Liner Brushes & Patterns for Illustrator

This Illustrator brushes pack covers all aspects of line art as it comes with a huge selection of brushes for you to select from. There are outline pattern brushes, stipple brushes, line brushes, and many other types of brushes included in the bundle. They are compatible with Illustrator CS5 and higher.

Mosaic Tile Illustrator Brushes

This Adobe Illustrator brush set offers a convenient entry point for artists eager to venture into mosaic art. This set, comprising 10 tile brushes, 25 patterns, and 15 seamless textures, enables you to create realistic artworks that effectively imitate physical mosaic art.

164 Cartoon Vector Brushes for Illustrator

This is a vast collection of expertly crafted digital tools that enable artists to infuse their cartoons, doodles, and other works of art with life. This set includes fun squiggles, expressive strokes, and sections like Regular, Triangle, Squeeze, and Faded brushes.

Grit Photoshop and Illustrator Brushes

A creative bundle of Illustrator brushes for adding a rugged texture to your designs with ease. It includes 20 unique grit variations suitable for both Photoshop and Illustrator. Harnessing this tool can give your creations an authentic distressed look. It’s compatible with CS6 to CC versions of the software.

Rebel Ink – Pen Brushes for Illustrator

Rebel Ink is a dynamic set of 26 Adobe Illustrator brushes with unique characteristics for enhanced customization. They are vector based, delivering versatile and high-quality designs. As a third-party offering, this set provides wide-ranging creative options for personalization, pushing your Illustrator use beyond the usual.

Pixel Perfect – 8bit Brush Tool Kit

This is a unique Adobe Illustrator brush set specifically designed for creating pixel art, taking inspiration from iconic 80s and 90s gaming aesthetics. The tool kit includes a range of pixel brushes, shaders, decorative brushes and a pixel pattern library that allows easy creation of 8-bit to 32-bit inspired art.

17 Colorful Brushes for Adobe Illustrator

You don’t have to be a skilled designer to create beautiful artworks with this pack of Illustrator brushes. It includes 17 colorful brushes with paint splatter designs that can be used to create various styles of crafts from modern art to print designs.

Vintage Illustrator Brush-Kit for Designers

This brush kit is designed for artists who work with vintage-themed drawing styles. The bundle includes 54 different vintage brushes with ink and pen styles. You can also adjust the width of the strokes without affecting the quality as well. You’ll need Illustrator CC to use this brush set.

Liquid Style Brushes for Illustrator

Featuring a retro look and vibe, this pack of Illustrator brushes comes with a trendy liquid style strokes and textures. They are perfect for adding textures and stylistic elements to your various print and digital designs. The brushes are compatible with Illustrator CS5 and higher.

Retro Comic Book Tool Kit – Brushes + Patterns

Comic book artists will surely appreciate this bundle of goodies for Illustrator. It comes complete with 84 vector brushes, 4 comic book texture patterns, overlays, layer styles, and everything you need to draw comic-themed illustrations and designs.

Multicolor Mixed Paint Brushes for Illustrator

This is a very unique brush kit for Illustrator that features 21 brush strokes as graphic styles that allows you to paint with 3 different colors at once. It also includes 24 color swatches but of course, you can also add your own colors. If you’re new to graphic styles, there’s a tutorial on how to use them as well.

Stipple Brush Set for Photoshop & Illustrator

Stipple Brush Set for Photoshop and Illustrator

Stipple brushes are mainly used to adding texture and depth to drawings but with this bundle of Illustrator brushes, you’ll be able to do much more. It includes 30 stipple brushes for Illustrator and 32 brushes for Photoshop.

Free Watercolor Illustrator Brushes

Free Japan Watercolor Brushes for Illustrator

This collection of beautiful Illustrator brushes feature a set of watercolor brushes inspired by Japanese designs. It includes both paint and calligraphy brushes that are perfect for creative artists and illustrators. The brushes are compatible with Illustrator CS3 and higher.

Essential Vector Brushes for Illustrator

This is a free sample brush pack from a premium bundle. The free samples include various vector brushes you can use in Illustrator, including watercolor brushes, charcoal brushes, marker brushes, and more.

Free Creative Watercolor Illustrator Brush Set

A bundle of creative watercolor brushes for Illustrator. These brushes feature realistic watercolor texture designs with both strokes and splash designs. They are most suitable for creative designers.

Free Multicolored Illustrator Brushes

This set of free Illustrator brushes feature multicolored brush stroke designs. It includes 57 different designs you can use with your various creative projects.

Free Calligraphy Illustrator Brushes

Free 10 Calligraphy Illustrator Art Brushes

If you’re looking for brushes for your calligraphy artworks, this brush pack is perfect for you. It includes 10 free calligraphy brushes for Illustrator featuring hand-crafted designs.

Free Artistic Sketch and Calligraphy Brushes

This set features a collection of simple and free Illustrator brushes you can use with both your sketch artworks as well as calligraphy designs. The brushes are free to use with your creative projects.

Free Paint Illustrator Brushes

Free Painted Canvas Brushes for Illustrator

This pack includes more than 60 different painted canvas brushes inspired by canvas paintings. Each brush in this pack has a unique design that will allow you to craft amazing illustrations with Adobe Illustrator.

12 Free Wax Crayon Effect Brushes for Illustrator

A collection of bright and colorful brushes for Illustrator. This bundle includes 12 wax crayon brushes you can use to paint, draw, and add texture. These are pattern brushes and they will repeat along the path you draw.

12 Free Brush Stroke Illustrator Brushes

A bundle of free Illustrator brushes featuring watercolor and paint-style brush stroke designs. This pack is completely free to download and use with your creative projects.

Preppy Art – Free Illustrator Brushes

Made from real paint strokes, this free pack of paint brushes for Illustrator is a must-have for every designer and artist. It includes 29 brushes in vector format with textures inspired by designs from the 1960s.

Marker Pen Strokes Free Illustrator Brushes

This set of free brush pack comes with a set of Illustrator brushes that feature marker pen stroke designs. It includes 64 different brush designs you can use to add texture and draw stylish illustrations.

Patts Brush Collection Free Sample

Patts Brush collection is a premium Illustrator brush pack. The artist was kind enough to include a free sample set of brushes for you to try and use with your personal projects. You can download them for free.

Free Texture Illustrator Brushes

Day 1 – Free Illustrator Texture Brushes

This bundle includes a set of 5 free texture brushes you can use in your art and graphic designs. These scatter brushes are just as good as a premium brush set. They are available in Procreate and Affinity formats too.

Retro Strokes Free Illustrator Brushes

This free Illustrator brush pack includes 9 unique vector brushes inspired by retro art. Each brush in this pack has a different stroke design, which will allow you to use them for outlines, shading, and many other types of work.

Free Spray Paint Stipple Brushes for Illustrator

This is a collection of spray paint-inspired brushes for Illustrator. These brushes have been made using real spray paint designs and they allow you to create authentic textures and artworks for various illustrations.

Free Spray & Hatch Illustrator Brushes

This is a collection of creative Illustrator brushes you can use to add texture to your designs. It includes two different styles of brushes featuring 10 spray painting brushes and 10 hatch texture brushes. All free to download.

30 Free Vintage Shading Brushes for Illustrator

Use this big bundle of shading brushes to give a vintage look and feel to your various graphic designs. It includes 30 brushes with various styles of designs. You can download them all for free.

55 Free Illustrator Vector Brushes Collection

This is actually a premium brush pack that includes 55 high-quality texture brushes for Illustrator. Somehow the brush pack is still free to download. You better grab it while it lasts.

Free Wax Crayon Texture Illustrator Brushes

This free bundle features a set of 40 unique Illustrator brushes that feature creative wax crayon style textures. These are perfect for adding depth and textures to your drawings. The brushes are compatible with both Illustrator and Affinity Designer.

Small Wonders – Free Texture Illustrator Brushes

Small Wonders is a bundle of premium Illustrator brushes. But it also includes a free sample of the brush pack that includes a few texture brushes you can use in your personal design projects for free.

Free Line Art Illustrator Brushes

Free Outline Brushes for Illustrator

This set of free outline brushes for Illustrator will surely come in handy when you’re working with line art designs. This brush set features 60 different brushes including dashed, rounded, abstract, and various other brush styles.

Free Handmade Pencil Brushes for Illustrator

This is a bundle of free goodies for Illustrator that includes free pencil brushes, text effects, texture patterns, and much more. It’s a must-have for artists and designers who create hand-drawn artworks.

Free Natural Line Art Illustrator Brushes

A set of line art Illustrator brushes featuring natural flowing designs. These brushes are free to download and use with your personal projects.

Paper Tooth Free Illustrator Line Brushes

This is a bundle of high-quality Illustrator brushes designed for creating vector line artworks. The pack includes multiple brushes with various stroke designs with jagged edges.

Free Floral Pattern Brushes For Illustrator

Even though this isn’t technically line art, we wanted to include this beautiful floral pattern brush set on our list. It includes 25 floral pattern brushes as well as 25 vector illustrations that work with Illustrator CS6 and higher.

Free Ink Illustrator Brushes

Free 24 Marker Pen Brushes for Illustrator

A set of marker pen brushes for creative projects. This pack comes with a set of 24 brushes in 6 different styles featuring outline, thick, scribble, messy, and many other styles of marker pen brush designs.

31 Free Hand Crafted Grunge Marker Brushes

Another collection of marker brushes featuring hand-crafted brush designs. This bundle includes 31 different brushes with classic grunge designs. You can use them to draw art and craft backgrounds as well.

Free Dry Ink Illustrator Brushes

This free bundle includes a set of creative Illustrator brushes featuring dry ink designs. These brushes are ideal for creative projects and artworks.

Free Adobe Illustrator Grunge Brushes

Another free Illustrator brush pack that comes with a set of ink-like brushes with various grunge designs. These are most suitable for digital drawings.

Free Abstract Illustrator Brushes

Free Vintage Banner Brushes for Illustrator

This is a very unique abstract Illustrator brush pack that features a collection of banner brushes. These are perfect adding small banner icons and graphics to your artworks and designs.

Free Rope Brush for Illustrator

A creative Illustrator brush featuring a rope-style texture design. This brush is perfect for adding borders and texture to different types of art and graphics.

Free Vintage Illustrator Border Brushes

If you want to add elegant vintage-style decorative borders to your designs, this Illustrator brush set will come in handy. It includes 5 stylish border brushes with vintage patterns for free.

Free Tribal Illustrator Brushes

This free Illustrator brush set features creative tribal-style brushes. You can use them to add decorative elements to your designs as well as to add creative borders to illustrations.

Free Illustrator Border Brushes Collection

Another collection of free border brushes for Illustrator. This brush set includes various styles of geometric brushes you can use in your designs. There are 15 different brushes in this pack.

Free Nature Border Brushes for Illustrator

You can download this brush pack for free to add beautiful nature-themed borders to your artwork. These brushes come in 7 different styles for you to choose from.

Free Hand-Drawn Arrow Brushes for Illustrator

A collection of free arrow brushes for Illustrator. If you want to draw an arrow for your new banner ad or illustration, look no further. This pack includes 13 different arrow brushes for you to grab for free.

Free Lipstick Vector Brushes for Illustrator

An Illustrator brush with a lipstick stamp may seem quite odd at first, but it will serve as a great source when designing patterns and backgrounds for creative projects such as greeting cards and banners.

4 Free Doodle Brushes for Illustrator

This is a small collection of simple Illustrator brushes you can use to draw doodles with hand-drawn look and feel. It’s also perfect for drawing borders and frames as well.

Free Hair Illustrator Brushes

The Hairbrush Kit – Free Illustrator Brushes

A must-have brush pack for drawing hair. This set of free Illustrator brushes are ideal for artists and illustrators who work with character illustrations.

How to Add Brushes to Illustrator

Adding brush packs in Illustrator is quite easy. Simply follow the steps below.

First, make sure to extract all the files in the downloaded ZIP file
Then locate the .AI file that contains all the brushes
Open the Illustrator app and go to the Window menu and to Brush Libraries >> Other Library
Now browse to the folder where your downloaded .AI brush library file is located and open it
That’s it!

For more professional and high-quality brushes, be sure to check out our best Photoshop and Illustrator brushes collection.

November 20, 2024

30+ Clever and Funny Christmas Print Ads

Christmas is nigh upon us. You’re likely rushing around like a crazy person this week trying to get all your work done, finish up your shopping, preparing to travel, etc. Let’s take a minute to slow down and absorb some solid Christmas-themed design inspiration.

In this post, we’ll take a look at some of the clever and/or funny Christmas ads. Some will make you laugh, others might earn an approving nod or even a roll of the eyes. All are definitely worth a look and are sure to get your brain in a creative mode.

Meaningful Christmas

It’s important to remember that Christmas is all about giving and sharing your joy with others. These emotional Christmas ads from non-profit organizations highlight that in clever ways. The creativity in these ads help bring attention to important causes and make someone else’s Christmas a joyful one.

This Is Not Christmas

Waiting for Christmas

This is no place to call home

Redirected Letters to Santa

ADOPT A GIFT

Calling All Santas

While the Grinch might be a familiar theme this season, the most popular character in Christmas ads is Santa Claus. The jolly old elf – and derivatives – easily evokes holiday emotions.

Santa’s Secret

Stylish Santa for Jupiter Gentleman’s Threads

Giver Viacci Travel

McDonald’s Santa

Cairo Festival

Construction Santa

Omino Bianco Laundry Santa

Feeling Grinchy

The Grinch has been a character of the holiday season since the original animated film, “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” came out in 1966. The character is known for his antics and hate for the holiday at the start of the movie. This season the character is being revived in a new film and is a mainstay in Christmas advertising.

The Grinch for Wonderful Pistachios

Grinch Billboards

Window World

Christmas Trees and Decorations

Sometimes the most clever print ad designs from the holiday season focus on elements that everyone recognizes, such as Christmas trees and decorations. These ads bring together a different spin on holiday traditions and gift-giving.

Black and Decker Christmas Tree

Carla Christmas Tree

Red Cross Stocking

Stihl Christmas Tree

Christmas Pencil

Christmas Pets

Animals are a common character in Christmas print promotions – maybe it is the cute factor. These animals are sure to grab your attention and pull your giving spirit.

Shave-a-Thon Christmas

Champion Pet Food Christmas Adoption

Christmas Songs

Simple Christmas Connections

Sometimes the smallest hint of the holidays in concert with brand identity can be the perfect marriage of elements. Creating a holiday theme that’s not so overtly holiday is a craft in itself. (And it seems like beer brands have this technique mastered.)

Heineken Mistletoe

AB InBev Merry Christmas

Interesting Artwork

Combining elements and imagery that’s a little unexpected is a common advertising tactic. That is just as applicable in the holiday season.

Reinbeer

CADD Don’t Drink and Drive

Dylon Clothes Dye

BMW Jingle Bells

Kmart Jingle Joes

Pirates of Christmas

Have a Good Holiday!

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah or Festivus, we here at Design Shack would like to wish you a very happy holiday season. Let us know what you think of the ads featured and tell us if you’ve seen any others worth sharing.

November 20, 2024

Swagger Meets Laravel: An In-Depth Integration Tutorial

Swagger, also known as OpenAPI, offers a powerful way to document and test APIs interactively. Integrating Swagger with Laravel helps create a comprehensive and user-friendly API documentation experience. This tutorial will guide you through integrating Swagger with your Laravel application, focusing on the key steps without delving into code. 1. Setting Up Your Laravel Project …

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November 19, 2024

70+ Best Stencil Fonts 2025

Looking for the best stencil fonts for your next design project? We’ve collected our favorite stencil letter fonts to give you dozens to choose from, all beautifully crafted to give you a stylish stencil effect.

When it comes to designing movie posters, video game covers, and military and industrial-themed designs, you can’t go wrong with a stencil font. Stencil fonts can be a great choice for making bold statements and grabbing attention. And they work well with many types of print and digital designs as well. (We’ve also included a few delicate stencil fonts, for more subtle use cases as well!)

Enjoy browsing through our hand-picked collection of the best stencil fonts, and see if you can find one font that’s a good match for your next design project.

Top Pick

Arcline – Modern Stencil Font

Arcline is a unique stencil font unlike any other font on our list. This font comes with a design inspired by the typography commonly used in drawings related to engineering.

The font also comes in 4 different weights, including light, regular, bold, and an inline typeface.

Why This Is A Top Pick

The geometrically correct and unique design of this font makes it truly one of a kind. It’s a must-have stencil font that fits in with many different types of print and digital designs.

Peligro – Bold Stencil Font

When thinking of stencil fonts, there’s a specific typography design that always comes to our mind. This font features that same iconic look. It’s the perfect choice for creating classic stencil typography for your projects. The font includes all-caps letters with numerals.

Vodan – Classic Stencil Font

Vodan is a beautiful stencil font that comes with a classic and classy letter design. It has the perfect look for crafting logos for modern luxury and fashion brands. The font also has both uppercase and lowercase characters.

Goodies – Modern Stencil Serif Font

This font puts a unique spin on the classic stencil typography design. The letters use a mix of modern and vintage design elements to make this font one of the best stencil serif fonts on our list. It comes with several alternates and ligatures too.

Modest – Creative Stencil Font

Modest is the perfect stencil font you can use to design big bol titles for your masculine designs. It will fit in perfectly with men’s clothing and drink brands. The font includes all-caps letters with alternates, ligatures, and multilingual characters.

Kinlock – Free Elegant Stencil Serif Font

Kinlock is a beautiful stencil font that has an elegant letter design. This font will make your classy logo designs, titles, and labels look even fancier. You can download it for free to use with personal projects.

Broken Silence – Modern Stencil Font

This modern stencil font combines robust, urban aesthetics with a raw stencil style. Its versatility makes it perfect for street-wear branding, game titles, logos, and more. This font duo offers uppercase, lowercase, numbers, standard punctuation, and multilingual support in OTF, WOFF and TTF. It even has PUA Encoding.

Grunt – Rough Stencil Font

This a distinctively rugged stencil font. With the simple use of the Caps Lock key, you can alternate between unique characters for a more personalized design. The creative asset delivered in OTF and WOFF files is a versatile pick for your next project.

Spencer – Clean Stencil Font

This stencil font combines modern style with an industrial influence, offering bold and distinct lettering. Its strong strokes and clean cuts provide a commanding presence, making it ideal for branding, posters, and signage. Despite its rugged aesthetic, Spencer maintains excellent legibility for striking, yet clear messaging.

Warband – Military Style Stencil Font

Warband is a military-style stencil font, offers a rugged and gritty texture, perfect to capture a commanding presence in your design projects. Be it impactful headlines or army-themed posters, Warband delivers just the right punch. With clean and textured styles available in OTF, TTF, and WOFF files.

Mogeruma – Bold Stencil Font

Mogeruma is a bold and dynamic stencil font, perfect for a variety of branding projects. Its authentic style can make your posters, logos, sports designs, and more, really stand out. Offering versatility across different contexts, this font comes in OTF, TTF, and WOFF formats.

African Gribald – Greek Stencil Font

This is a vibrant stencil font that asserts authenticity and creative appeal. Its range of uses is extensive, offering diverse themes and styles to meet various needs. This display font is available in OTF, TTF, and WOFF formats. For an expanded selection of themes and font styles, a visit to the provider’s profile page is highly recommended.

Hovan Mono – Monospaced Stencil Font

This is a distinctive monospaced, stencil font that exudes both strength and sophistication. Perfect for tech-oriented or industrial projects, its stencil design mimics stamped letters and imparts a mechanical edge. Its monospaced structure enhances readability, making it ideal for coding or other technical contexts.

Handey Military – Stencil Font

A distinctive stencil font ideal for a variety of design needs including movie scenes, posters, album covers, logos, and diverse labeling requirements. It comes with OTF, TTF, and WOFF formats, providing great flexibility for diverse applications.

Hyper Oxide – Bold Stencil Sport Font

Hyper Oxide is a bold stencil font that epitomizes strength and modernity. This unique, dynamically designed typeface features bold lines and stencil cutouts, offering versatility across various platforms and mediums. Besides its salient features like uppercase letters, numerals, and punctuation marks, it also supports multilingual characters as well.

Zeados – Futuristic Stencil Font

Zeados is a futuristic stencil font that infuses boldness and authenticity into any design. Excellent for a variety of branding projects like posters and logos, or even sports marketing, it stands out remarkably across different contexts. The package includes Zeados.OTF, Zeados.TTF, and Zeados.WOFF formats, providing great flexibility and usability.

Pearlone – Stylish Stencil Serif Font

This stylish stencil font features a unique design where some characters have a pearl-like dot, hence the name Pearl-one. The font comes in regular and bold weights. You can use it to craft unique logos and typography for your design project.

Fashion Stencil Logo Serif Font

Just as the name suggests, this stencil font comes with a very fashionable letter design that’s especially suitable for logos, labels, and typography designs related to fashion brands. The font includes uppercase and lowercase letters.

Wargate – Stencil Font Family

Wargate is a family of stencil fonts that share a bold letter design. This font has a military-themed design that will make your logos and titles look more masculine. The font is available in 5 different weights with multilingual support for 28 languages.

Loccomotive – Rounded Stencil Font

This is a very unique stencil font that comes with a set of creative letters featuring rounded edges. This font is ideal for casual and friendly typography designs, especially for custom T-shirts, brand identities, business cards, and more.

Senda – Free Stencil Display Font

Senda is a free stencil font that you can download and use for free, even with your commercial projects. This font has a stylish letter design that’s most suitable for crafting attractive logos.

ReRun – Stencil Font Family

ReRun is a family of industrial style stencil fonts that can be used for album covers, film titles and video games. It features uppercase letters, punctuation, numerals, and language support. Don’t hesitate to take ReRun for a spin or add it to your shortlist at the very least.

Towards – Minimal Stencil Font

Towards is a minimal and classy stencil font perfectly fitting to a pool of creative and professional projects. It can be used for logos, watermarks, invitations, product designs, stationery, greeting cards, labels, and other branding and packaging purposes.

Basker – Vintage Stencil Font

Basker is an excellent stencil font for any project that demands a vintage look. It comes with a full set of uppercase and lowercase characters, punctuation, symbols, stylistic set, and multilingual support. Download it right away.

Billy Magie – Stylish Stencil Font

Billy Magie is a bold and stylish stencil font that will take your projects to next level. Invest your money in this typeface, and it will pay for itself many times over.

Casa – Free Stencil Font

If you’re wanting to get your hands on a free stencil font, look no further than Casa. It’s a clean, and modern typeface that will help you create remarkable designs.

Quas Stencil – Luxury Font

Quas is a stencil font featuring an elegant and luxurious design. This font is perfect for making designs for luxury, high-end, and fashion-related businesses. It’s also a great fit for logo designs.

Opera – Bold Stencil Font

Opera is a family of bold sans-serif fonts. It includes 10 different fonts featuring thin, bold, westers, stencil, and much more. It’s perfect for all kinds of designs from bold titles, book covers, signages, and posters.

Monty – Modern Stencil Font

Monty Stencil comes with a smooth and creative design. It’s designed with marketing, packaging, and branding work in mind. The font also features a unique style of stencil design that can add a personal touch to your designs.

Marsh – Free Stencil Font

March is a free font that features one of the most creative stencil designs we’ve seen. Unlike most other stencil fonts, this font uses its own style of shapes and spacing to create a unique design.

The font includes multilingual support and you can use it for free with your personal projects.

Finding stencil fonts that support other languages is not easy. This font supports Espanol, Portuguese, Deutsch, and many more. And it’s free!

Storehouse – Stencil Font

Storehouse stencil font comes with an old-school vintage-themed design, which was inspired by the signage and posters from the 1800s. The font is available in 10 different styles, including bold, shadow, outline, and stencil.

Exomoon – Display Stencil Font

Exomoon is a modern space and sci-fi themed stencil font that’s most suitable for designing modern posters, book covers, and greeting cards. It’s an all-caps font that also comes with lots of glyphs.

Botera – Creative Free Stencil Font

Botera is a modern serif font with a stylish stencil design. This font is ideal for logo and poster designs. It’s free to use with your personal projects

Evolve – Unique Stencil Font

Evolve features a unique design of its own. Even though it’s technically not a stencil font, it has a similar design that you can use to design unique stencil designs.

Arcane – Logotype & Stencil Font

Arcane is a logotype font that features a stencil-inspired design. While it’s the best choice for designing logos, the font can be used for website designs, business cards, and other branding material designs as well.

Organa Caps – Stencil Font

Organa Caps is a unique stencil font that comes with a creative design, unlike any other font. The font is available in 3 different styles and it’s ideal for designing product tags, packaging, and posters.

Goku – Didot & Stencil Font

Goku is a multilingual font that’s been designed for an official Watches of Switzerland event. It comes in two styles and features lots of ligatures, alternates, and glyphs.

Hand Stencil

This is elegant font features a mix of hand-lettered and a stencil design. It’s a brilliant combination that creates a unique typeface. The font is perfect for crafting posters, book covers, greeting cards, T-shirt designs, and much more.

Portico Stencil Rough

Portico is a stencil font with a classic design. It features a rough and grunge style design that will add more depth to your designs. The font can be used to create big bold titles, headers for websites, and to craft posters and greeting cards.

College – Free Stencil Font Family

College is a free font family that includes various styles of stencil fonts with a design inspired by the arches and columns of the buildings in France. The font is free to use with your personal and commercial projects.

Bripokus – Free Stencil Font

This free stencil font is the perfect choice for crafting big titles and heading in websites, posters, and social media. The font is completely free to use with your personal and commercial projects.

Arkibal – Stencil Serif Font

Check out Arkibal, a stencil serif font with bold, and chunky lettering, perfectly suited for projects needing to emulate the classic old documents and store signs look with a modern approach. A great option for a wide range of creative and professional applications!

Sharpshooter – Stencil Army Font

As the name suggests, Sharpshooter is a military stencil font that can be used for online games, movie titles, Youtube thumbnails, and covers, t-shirts, posters, and other branding material. Drop everything, and grab Sharpshooter right now!

Autobahn – Stencil Spray Font

Next up we have Autobahn, a spray-painted stencil font that will give your designs a gritty, and distressed appearance. The font is perfect for bringing an urban graffiti or military style to the page without having to get your hands soaked in the paint.

Ouders – Free Stencil Font

If you are looking for a vintage stencil font with a rough and grungy vibe, Ouders is well worth checking out. Fitting for a large pool of branding designs, Ouders certainly deserves a place in your designer’s toolkit. Get your hands on it now!

Saint George – Free Stencil Font

Want to experiment a little with your font choice? Consider Saint George, a clean and innovative stencil font that you’ll surely keep using for many design projects for years to come. The best part is that it’s available for free. It’s one of the most downloaded free stencil fonts out there and for a good reason.

Hemingwar Font

Hemingwar is a beautiful stencil font with a retro-modern hand lettering design. The font features natural extensions with rounded corners and comes in normal, stencil, and roughened versions as well. The font consists of all letters, numbers, and punctuations.

Stargaze Typeface

Stargaze is not an ordinary stencil font. It’s a retro-futuristic font inspired by stencil designs. The font features both regular and stencil letters mixed-in to make one unique look. It includes all uppercase letters, numbers, punctuations and a unique reversed versions of the letters, which can be enabled with the Caps Lock.

Bladekade Stencil Font

This stencil font is unlike any other you’ll normally find anywhere on the web. This font features an elegant script font style with a vintage design. It’s ideal for designing logos, badges, product labels, and website headers. The font will definitely make your designs stand out.

Bastille Font Duo

Bastille is yet another futuristic cyberpunk themed font inspired by stencil design. This font is perfect for designing movie posters, title screens, book covers, and T-shirt designs. The font includes regular and italic versions as well.

Ember Typeface

Ember is a poster stencil font that comes in two different styles that will fit in well with digital and print designs. It has a rough post-apocalyptic look that makes the font perfect for luxury branding works, especially for businesses related to men’s products.

Leixo – Free Stylish Stencil Font

Leixo is a free stencil font that comes in multiple weights, including italic, bold, and rough designs. The font also includes more than 320 glyphs as well.

Fontuna – Free Stencil Font Family

Fontuna is a family of fonts that comes with various types of typefaces with condensed design. It includes a stencil typeface as well.

Jakes – Free Creative Stencil Font

This stencil font features a creative design that will make text look as if it was hand-drawn by a child. The font is available in both thin and bold weights. You can use it for free with your personal and commercial projects.

Typehead Stencil Font

Featuring a vintage design, this stencil font family comes with 4 different styles of typefaces, including regular, decorative, regular stencil, and decorative stencil. These fonts will help you add that old-school industrial look to your print and web designs.

Lunar Eclipse Font Duo

This unique font features an unusual design inspired by stencil fonts that makes it more suitable for logo designs, business card designs, and other high-end product and branding works. The font is available in two versions with both uppercase and lowercase letters.

Mind the Gap Urban Stencil Font

This font comes with a classic urban stencil font design. According to its designer, the font was created by hand-cutting the letter stencils and spray painting the letters. Which makes it truly an original stencil font. It includes uppercase and lowercase letters with numbers and punctuations.

LUNA Stencil Font

Luna is a minimalist stencil font with a modern design. It features tall and narrow letters with a basic stencil design and it’s available in two different styles: Regular and Stylish. This font can be used to design great website headers, social media posts, logos, and more.

Braunstein Font

Braunstein is a stencil font with a classic design that makes it best for retro-themed design projects, including product packaging, badges, T-shirt designs, signage, and more. The font features a hand-made design that will add a natural look to your designs.

MM Cruella

A yet another minimalist font with a modern stencil look. This font is ideal for business and branding works related to feminine products. It can be used to craft logos, titles, business cards, and banners. The font is available in 5 weights and includes lots of ligatures and alternate characters.

Maroque Stencil Font

This unique stencil font features a design style inspired by the patterns and forms found in Moroccan architecture, art, and carpets. It has a one of a kind design that will add a unique cultural look to your greeting cards, posters, and other designs.

Thunderbolt Stencil Font Family

Thunderbolt is a font family that comes in 4 different styles, including regular, rounded regular, stencil, and rounded stencil. The fonts can be used with many different types of projects including both print and digital designs.

Raleigh Font

Raleigh is a modern stencil font with an elegant design. This font features a futuristic stencil look that will allow you to create more attractive website headers, logotypes, greeting cards, and more. The font comes in several different styles including regular, bold, and italic.

Sargento Gorila Fonts

This is a stencil font that comes with both regular and italic styles. The font features a military-themed design and includes ligatures and lots of alternate characters such as bitcoin symbol and sergeant symbol.

Revelation Stencil Font

Revelation is a futuristic stencil font with a minimalist design. It features a smooth rounded design with a perfectly measured stencil effect. It comes in regular and light versions, which includes the complete alphabet, numbers, Latin characters, and 370 glyphs.

Aquos Typeface

Aquos is a stencil font with a unique design. The font features a creative layout that includes shapes inside the letters. It’s ideal for creating modern logotypes, website headers, and print designs.

Transsiberian Stencil Font

This stylish stencil font will certainly help add a specific uniqueness to your design projects. This font features an elegant and a modern design. And it includes both uppercase and lowercase letters with rounded edges as well as numbers, glyphs, and icons.

Melting Point Sci-fi Font

This stencil font comes with an attractive sci-fi look that makes it the perfect choice for crafting book covers, movie posters, and title screens. The font is available in light, regular, italic, bold, and more styles.

Mantra Stencil Font

Mantra is a bold display font with a stencil look. The font is ideal for designing posters, banners, social media posts, and website headers. It also includes a unique stencil effect with unevenly cut out designs.

Mussolina Font

This stencil font also has an uncommon stencil effect that features curved and slanted stencil cut outs. It’s also a multilingual font that supports German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and many other languages.

Capsule X Pro Font

Capsule X is a beautifully minimalist stencil font that has a modern design. It’s perfect for crafting logos, signage, website headers, business cards, and more. The font includes both uppercase and lowercase letters as well.

Portfolio Stencil Font

This modern stencil font not only features a unique design, it also comes packed with more than 900 glyphs, Latin characters, and kerning pairs. The font is available in bold, regular, extra bold rounded, and light versions as well.

For more great fonts, check out our monogram fonts and lettering fonts collections as well!

November 19, 2024

AI’s Transformative Impact On Web Design: Supercharging Productivity Across The Industry

As I sit down to write this article, I can’t help but marvel at the incredible changes sweeping through our industry. For the first time in my career, I feel like we’re no longer limited by our technology but by our imagination. Well, almost. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the web design landscape in ways we could only dream of a few years ago, and I’m excited to share with you how it’s supercharging our productivity across various aspects of our work.

AI Is A Partner, Not A Competitor

Now, before we dive in, let me assure you: AI isn’t here to replace us. At least, not for a while yet. There are still crucial areas where human expertise reigns supreme. AI struggles with strategic planning that considers the nuances of human behavior and market trends. It can’t match our emotional intelligence when navigating client relationships and team dynamics. And when it comes to creative thinking that pushes boundaries and creates truly innovative solutions, we humans still have the upper hand.

But here’s the exciting part: AI is becoming an invaluable tool that’s supercharging our productivity. Think of it as having a highly capable intern at your disposal. As the Nielsen Norman Group aptly put it in their article “AI as an Intern,” we need to approach AI tools with the right mindset. Double-check their work, use them for initial drafts rather than final products, and provide specific instructions and relevant context.

The key to harnessing AI’s power lies in working with it collaboratively.

Don’t expect perfect results on the first try. Instead, engage in a back-and-forth conversation, refining the AI output through iteration. This process of continuous improvement is where AI truly shines, dramatically speeding up our workflow.

Let’s explore how AI is reshaping different areas of our industry, looking at some of the many tools available to us.

AI In Design: Unleashing Creativity And Efficiency

In the realm of design, AI is proving to be a game-changer. It’s particularly adept at:

Collaborating on layout;
Generating the perfect image;
Refining and adapting existing imagery.

Take AI in Figma, for instance. It’s become my go-to for generating dummy content and tidying up my layers. The time saved on these mundane tasks allows me to focus more on the creative aspects of design.

Generative imagery tools like Krea, which uses Flux, have revolutionized how we source visuals. Gone are the days of endlessly scrolling through stock libraries. Now, we can describe exactly what we need, and AI will create it for us. This level of customization and specificity is a game changer for creating unique, on-brand visuals.

Relume is another tool I’ve found incredibly useful. It’s great for a collaborative back-and-forth over designs or for quickly putting together designs for smaller sites. The ability to iterate rapidly with AI assistance has significantly sped up my design process.

And let’s not forget about Adobe. Their upcoming tools, such as lighting matching for composite images, are set to take our design capabilities to new heights. If you want to see more of what’s on the horizon, I highly recommend checking out the latest Adobe Max presentations.

AI In Coding: Boosting Developer Productivity

The impact of AI on coding is nothing short of revolutionary. According to a McKinsey study, developers using AI tools performed coding tasks like code generation, refactoring, and documentation 20%-50% faster on average compared to those not using AI tools. That’s a significant productivity boost!

AI is helping developers in several key areas:

Coding faster;
Debugging more efficiently;
Automatically generating code comments;
Writing basic code.

To put this into perspective, AI now writes 25% of the code at Google. That’s a staggering figure from one of the world’s leading tech companies.

Tools like Cursor AI and GitHub Copilot are at the forefront of this revolution, offering features such as:

AI pair programming with predictive code edits;
Natural language code editing;
Chat interfaces for asking questions and getting help.

I’ve personally been amazed by what ChatGPT 01-Preview can do. I’ve used it to build simple WordPress plugins in minutes, tasks that would have taken me significantly longer in the past.

AI In UX: Enhancing User Research And Analysis

In the field of User Experience (UX), AI is opening up new possibilities for research and analysis. It’s allowing us to:

Conduct user research at scale;
Analyze open-ended qualitative feedback;
Query analytic data using natural language;
Predict user behavior.

I’ve found ChatGPT to be an invaluable tool for data analysis, particularly when it comes to making sense of analytics and survey responses. It can quickly identify patterns and insights that might take us hours to uncover manually.

Tools like Strella are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in user research. AI can now perform user interviews at scale, allowing us to gather insights from a much larger pool of users than ever before.

Attention Insight is another fascinating tool. It uses AI to predict where people will look on a page, providing valuable data for optimizing layouts and user interfaces.

Microsoft Clarity has also upped its game, allowing us to ask questions about our analytic insights, heatmaps, and session recordings. This natural language interface makes it easier than ever to extract meaningful insights from our data.

AI In Copywriting: Elevating Content Quality And Efficiency

When it comes to copywriting, AI is proving to be a powerful ally. It’s helping us:

Transform poor-quality stakeholder content into web-optimized copy;
Brainstorm value propositions and create high-converting copy;
Craft compelling business cases and strategy documentation;
Write standard operating procedures.

Notion AI has become one of my go-to tools for content creation. It combines the best of ChatGPT and Claude, allowing it to draw upon a wide range of provided source material to write detailed documentation, articles, and reports.

ChatGPT has been a game-changer for improving the quality of website copy. It can take user questions and bullet-point answers from subject specialists and transform them into web-optimized content. I’ve found it particularly useful for defining value propositions and writing high-converting copy.

For refining existing content, the Hemingway Editor is invaluable. It can take the existing copy and make it clearer, more concise, and easier to scan — essential qualities for effective web content.

AI In Administration: Streamlining Mundane Tasks

AI isn’t just transforming the technical aspects of our work; it’s also making a significant impact on those mundane administrative tasks that often eat up our time. By leveraging AI, we can streamline various aspects of our daily workflow, allowing us to focus more on high-value activities.

Here are some ways AI is helping us tackle administrative tasks more efficiently:

Getting our thoughts down faster;
Writing better emails;
Summarizing long emails or Slack threads;
Speeding up research;
Backing up arguments with relevant data.

Let me share some personal experiences with AI tools that have transformed my administrative workflow:

I’ve dramatically increased my writing speed using Flow. This tool has taken me from typing at 49 words per minute to dictating at over 95 words per minute. Not only does it allow me to dictate, but it also tidies up my words to ensure they read well and are grammatically correct.

For email writing, I’ve found Fixkey to be invaluable. It helps me rewrite or reformat copy quickly. I’ve even set up a prompt that tones down my emails when I’m feeling particularly irritable, ensuring they sound reasonable and professional.

Dealing with long email threads or Slack conversations can be time-consuming. That’s where Spark comes in handy. It summarizes lengthy threads, saving me valuable time. Interestingly, this feature is now built into iOS for all notifications, making it even more accessible.

When it comes to research, Google Notebook LLM has been a game-changer. I can feed it large amounts of data on a subject and quickly extract valuable insights. This tool has significantly sped up my research process.

Lastly, if I need to back up an argument with a statistic or quote, Perplexity has become my go-to resource. It quickly finds relevant sources I can quote, adding credibility to my work without the need for extensive manual searches.

Conclusion: Embracing AI For A More Productive Future

As I wrap up this article, I realize I’ve only scratched the surface of what AI can do for our industry. The real challenge isn’t in the technology itself but in breaking out of our established routines and taking the time to experiment with what’s possible.

I believe we need to cultivate a new habit: pausing before each new task to consider how AI could help us approach it differently. The winners in this new reality will be those who can best integrate this technology into their workflow.

AI isn’t replacing us — it’s empowering us to work smarter and more efficiently. By embracing these tools and learning to collaborate effectively with AI, we can focus more on the aspects of our work that truly require human creativity, empathy, and strategic thinking.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the rapid pace of change, don’t worry. We’re all learning and adapting together. Remember, the goal isn’t to become an AI expert overnight but to gradually incorporate these tools into your work in ways that make sense for you and your projects.

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November 19, 2024

Complete CSS Course

Do you subscribe to Piccalilli? You should. If you’re reading that name for the first time, that would be none other than Andy Bell running the ship and he’s reimagined the site from the ground-up after coming out of hibernation this year. You’re likely familiar with Andy’s great writing here on CSS-Tricks.

Andy is more than a great writer — he’s a teacher, too. And you’ll see that in spades next week when his brand-new course Complete CSS is released one week from today on November 26.

As someone who also runs a front-end course, I can tell you it takes a non-trivial amount of time and effort to put something like Complete CSS together. I’ve been able to sneak peek at the course and ~~like~~ love how it’s made for many CSS-Tricks readers — you know CSS and use it regularly but need to ratchet it up from good to great. If my course is for those just getting into CSS, Andy will graduate you from hobbyist to practitioner in Complete CSS. It’s the perfect next step for narrowing the ever-growing learning gaps in this industry.

Early bird price is £189 (~$240) which is a steep cut from the full £249 (~$325) price tag.

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November 19, 2024

50+ Best YouTube Thumbnail Templates in 2025

With over 500 hours of video content being uploaded every minute, it’s now tougher than ever to build a successful channel on YouTube. Creating quality content is not enough, you also need to market your videos effectively to get more views.

Using high-quality video thumbnails is one of the best ways you can use to attract attention to your videos. Think of it like fancy packaging for your video content.

The thumbnail cover you use for your YouTube video is the first thing users see when browsing videos on YouTube or searching on Google. By using creative and descriptive thumbnail covers, you’ll have a higher chance of getting more clicks and views for your channel.

Big brand channels on YouTube have their own dedicated designers creating unique thumbnail covers for each video. But, you don’t have to spend any money on designers when you have YouTube thumbnail templates.

In this collection, we’re bringing you some of the best custom YouTube thumbnail templates you can use to create attractive thumbnail covers for all kinds of videos. Have a look.

Gaming YouTube Thumbnail Templates

This is a collection of trendy YouTube thumbnails for gamers and streamers, featuring a set of five expertly designed, fully customizable PSD files. Each template is designed for 1280 x 720 px resolution and 72 DPI, showcasing vibrant colors, dynamic layouts, and striking fonts to make your content shine on YouTube.

Gaming Video YouTube Thumbnails

Another creative YouTube thumbnail pack featuring a set of editable thumbnail templates ideal for gaming YouTube channels. They’re designed with striking typography, dynamic compositions, and vibrant colors that will make your content pop.

Live Stream YouTube Thumbnail Templates

An impressive pack of four customizable gaming YouTube thumbnails guaranteed to elevate your YouTube channel. Armed with high-quality PSD files, these customizable thumbnails are not only visually stunning but very user-friendly, ready to swap out images, alter text, and modify colors swiftly.

Business Tips YouTube Thumbnails

This is a set of sleek and professional YouTube thumbnails created for business-centric YouTube videos. The designs are modern and elegant, with fully editable and well-organized layers. These templates can easily be personalized across platforms such as Figma, Sketch, and Photoshop.

Podcast YouTube Thumbnail Templates

A collection of YouTube thumbnails for enhancing your online podcast videos. They are easy to personalize with adjustable texts, content, objects, and color schemes. The package includes four distinct designs, created in Photoshop, in a convenient 1280 x 720 px, 72 DPI resolution landscape format.

Fitness Gym YouTube Thumbnail Templates

These YouTube thumbnails are specifically tailored for fitness-oriented videos. The design utilizes striking visuals and bold elements that embody the vibrancy of a high-intensity workout. It features editable text, customizable vector shapes, easy-image-editing smart objects, and a layout of 1280 x 720.

90s Music YouTube Thumbnail Template

This is a set of YouTube thumbnail templates offering customizable designs for music-related videos. Crafted with a 90’s aesthetic, this template is ideal for vlogging, live streaming, music, night parties, or anything else music-related. With well-organized layers, the design and color of these fully editable banners can be personalized to fit your needs. It includes 4 different thumbnail designs.

Creator Podcast YouTube Thumbnails Template

Elevate your content with this colorful YouTube thumbnail template kit, ideal for users wanting attractive, distinctive thumbnails. With four unique designs, this template kit offers a colorful retro style that is fully customizable. Regardless of your editing experience, these templates help to create thumbnails that truly stand out, enticing viewers to engage with your content.

Beauty Fashion YouTube Thumbnails Template

An excellent YouTube thumbnail template pack for content creators looking to improve their videos’ aesthetics. The product comes with four customizable designs, allowing you to craft attention-grabbing thumbnails to make your videos stand out. Even if you’re new to content creation or a seasoned professional, this thumbnail template set is a boon for boosting clicks and views.

Modern Business Finance YouTube Thumbnail

This is an appealing and professional YouTube thumbnail template pack that is most suitable for business and finance videos. This package includes six easily editable designs in a standard 1920×1080 size, perfect for catching viewers’ attention. Well-organized layers and the use of free font add to its usability.

Daily Vlog YouTube Thumbnail Template

This YouTube thumbnail template collection comes with six unique designs, giving your forthcoming trending video a professional and creative look. This template, perfect for travel, health, and wellness YouTube creators, has a standard 1920×1080 size and is well-layered for easy editing in Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator.

Gaming Channel YouTube Thumbnail Templates

This is a collection of YouTube thumbnail templates for gaming content creators, vloggers, and influencers, designed to boost views and engagement. Featuring an elegant and modern design, these templates are ready for immediate use on YouTube, with organized, high-resolution, fully-layered files that allow for easy customization of text and colors.

Football YouTube Thumbnail Template

A versatile YouTube thumbnail template pack for any sports-related YouTube content. Ideal for live streaming, vlogs, and football videos, this customizable template includes four well-structured PSD layers. The design is professional and clean, allowing users to easily alter colors, text, and design as needed.

Fashion YouTube Thumbnail Templates

A fantastic collection of creative YouTube thumbnail templates for making attractive thumbnails for your content. It’s perfect for various categories like live streaming, fashion, lifestyle vlogs, and more. With a clean, professional design and fully editable features, it’s effortless to tailor the template according to your needs.

Gaming YouTube Thumbnails Pack

Kick your gaming platform up a notch with this set of YouTube thumbnail templates. This pack includes 3 PSD files, tailored to a 1280×720 pixel specification – perfect for enhancing your video visibility. These are ideal for compilation videos and gameplay videos too.

Makeup & Beauty YouTube Thumbnail Kit

Ready-to-use, high-resolution thumbnail templates for makeup and beauty channels. It showcases a sophisticated design that can help your YouTube channel stand out and grow. The kit includes multiple layered files for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD, Sketch, and Figma, with editable texts and colors.

YouTube Thumbnail Template for Business Videos

If you have a business marketing channel on YouTube, this template can come in very handy. The pack comprises a stylish, yet professional thumbnail, and end screen, both fully layered, well-organized, available in high-resolution and provides easy customization.

Holographic YouTube Thumbnails

Here we have a bundle of 6 YouTube thumbnails with striking 3D typography. It’s a great product for YouTubers, or video bloggers looking for a cool design for their channel. The thumbnails are very easy to tweak using the smart object replacement feature.

YouTube Thumbnail Template for Gaming Videos

If you have a YouTube channel covering gaming-related content, this set of thumbnail templates will help you design covers for your videos that attract more views. It includes 4 different designs that you can edit with Photoshop.

Gym Fitness YouTube Thumbnail Templates

The thumbnail templates in this pack are designed with gym and fitness YouTubers in mind. It includes 4 styles of thumbnail layouts you can use to create covers for tips videos, fitness training classes, and more.

Travelista – Travel Vlog YouTube Thumbnail Templates

This is a must-have set of YouTube thumbnail templates for travel vloggers. There are 3 colorful and creative thumbnail designs in this pack for crafting amazing covers for your videos. The templates come in both PSD and AI file formats.

Tech Video YouTube Thumbnail Templates

Tech YouTubers and bloggers will find the templates in this bundle most useful. It includes 4 different layout designs that are perfect for making covers for your tech tutorials, guides, news videos, and much more.

Free Business Video YouTube Thumbnail Template

This is a free YouTube thumbnail template you can use to create a high-quality cover for business and professional videos. It’s especially suitable for channels for brands and agencies.

Fashion Vlog YouTube Thumbnail Template

The YouTube thumbnails in this bundle are designed specifically for fashion and beauty vloggers. It includes 4 stylish designs to make attractive cover designs for your trendy videos. The templates are fully customizable.

Kids Play – YouTube Thumbnails for Kids Channels

If you have a YouTube channel covering kid-friendly videos, this set of thumbnail templates will come in handy. The pack includes 4 creative thumbnail templates that will make your videos appear more colorful in the user feeds.

Room Tour YouTube Thumbnail Template

If you really want your YouTube channel’s thumbnail to stand out against the crowd, this beautifully crafted, and well-organized template is just what you need. Customize this template to your heart’s content, and watch your channel grow in a short span of time.

Free Music Festival YouTube Thumbnail Template

If you wish to run a live stream of a music festival or concert on your YouTube channel, this futuristic-looking, vaporwave-inspired thumbnail template deserves your undivided attention. The template is fully customizable and available for free.

Digital Marketing YouTube Thumbnail Templates

Whether you’re a business promoting services or an agency covering marketing trends, this set of templates will help make your videos look more professional on YouTube. It includes 10 different thumbnail templates in PSD, AI, and EPS file formats.

Fitness & Workout YouTube Thumbnail Templates

You can use the templates in this pack to create simple and clean thumbnails for your fitness-related videos. There are 4 different design layouts in the pack. You can edit them with Photoshop to change colors and edit text.

Free YouTube Thumbnail Template for Bloggers

Another free YouTube thumbnail template featuring a simple and effective design. This template is most suitable for bloggers for making covers for their tips and tricks videos.

YouTube Thumbnail Templates for Lifestyle Videos

Lifestyle videos need clean and minimal thumbnail covers that describes what the video is all about. This bundle of YouTube thumbnail templates has designs that are perfect for any type of lifestyle video. It includes 6 thumbnail templates for travel videos, reaction videos, daily routine videos, and more.

Free Recipe YouTube Thumbnail Template

Do you have a cooking channel on Youtube? This free thumbnail template can be of great use. It features a colorful, and modern design guaranteed to draw your audience’s attention at a glance. It’s an excellent template that you should definitely give a shot to.

Self-Help Blogger YouTube Thumbnail Templates

Whether you’re making an unboxing video or teaching self-help tips, this set of YouTube thumbnail templates will surely be useful to you. It includes multiple thumbnail cover designs featuring modern layouts with beautiful colors and shapes. They are perfect for all kinds of channels from solopreneurs to big brands.

YouTube Thumbnail Templates for Tutorial Videos

Tutorial videos are a big niche on YouTube. In fact, you’ll find thousands of videos on the same topic when searching for tutorial videos. With the help of these thumbnail templates, you’ll have a better chance of ranking higher on YouTube and getting more views. They are professionally designed for various types of tips, guides, and tutorial video content.

Fashion Vlogger YouTube Thumbnail Templates

Fashion and beauty vloggers will find this collection of YouTube thumbnail templates quite useful as it includes several high-quality designs that are ideal for various types of videos. The templates are available in easily editable PSD files with organized layers.

Food Recipe YouTube Thumbnail Template

If you have a YouTube channel for food or drink recipes, this multipurpose YouTube thumbnail template will help you design more attractive thumbnail covers for your videos. It’s fully customizable so you can change its images, colors, and text to your preference. The thumbnail also comes in 720p to 8K resolution PSD files.

Free Gaming YouTube Thumbnail Template

This is a set of free YouTube thumbnail templates specially crafted for gaming content creators. It includes multiple video game-themed thumbnail templates featuring popular multiplayer games such as PUBG, Overwatch, and more.

Free YouTube Thumbnail Templates for Gamers

Another free bundle of YouTube thumbnail covers. This pack also includes 2 thumbnail templates for gaming videos as well as 2 templates for other types of content. The templates are easily editable and come in a high-resolution PSD file.

Travel Vlogger YouTube Thumbnail Templates

One of the best thumbnail templates in this collection is for travel videos. The bundle is worth downloading just for that template. However, there are many other thumbnail designs in this pack you can use to create covers for different types of YouTube videos. All of the templates are available in Full HD resolution and comes in editable PSD files.

Creative YouTube Thumbnail Templates

This is a collection of multipurpose YouTube thumbnail templates that includes 6 beautiful designs for crafting all kinds of video thumbnail covers. The templates feature colorful and creative designs that are most suitable for design, fashion, and even tutorial videos.

YouTube Thumbnail Templates for Business Videos

You can use the thumbnail templates in this bundle to create professional thumbnail designs for your business and brand videos. It includes 6 professionally crafted thumbnails that are perfect for podcasts, business trends, customer success stories, and much more.

Yoga & Health YouTube Thumbnail Templates

Want to create an effective thumbnail cover for a photography video? Or make an attractive thumbnail for a morning routine fitness video? Then grab this YouTube thumbnail templates pack. It includes several stylish thumbnail designs you can use with various types of videos.

Outdoor Adventure YouTube Thumbnail Cover

This creative YouTube thumbnail template is ideal for creating covers for outdoor, travel, and adventure videos. It’s especially useful for making thumbnail covers for event and conference videos as well as live streams. The template comes in 4 resolutions and in an editable PSD file.

Free YouTube Thumbnail for Sports Videos

This free thumbnail template is perfect for making a cover for a simple sports training or fitness video. It comes in EPS file format, which allows you to even edit and customize the tiny shapes in the template. You’ll need Adobe Illustrator or a vector editor to edit this template.

Free YouTube Thumbnail for Music Videos

This creative and colorful thumbnail design is ideal for making a cover for a music mix video or a soundtrack video. The template is free to download and it comes in an easily editable EPS file. Don’t forget to attribute the author when using this free template.

Retro Youtube Thumbnail Cover Templates

If you’re looking for a YouTube thumbnail cover template with a retro old-school design, this bundle will come in handy. It features 6 different templates with classic designs with subtle colors. The templates are easily customizable and you can change the colors and fonts to your preference.

Stylish YouTube Thumbnail Templates

The beautifully stylish thumbnail templates in this pack are simply perfect for all kinds of fashion, beauty, and lifestyle videos. It includes 6 templates with fully customizable PSD files. They are available in Full HD resolution and with free Google Fonts.

Cake & Bake YouTube Thumbnail Template

This YouTube thumbnail template is most suitable for creating covers for videos related to cake, cupcakes, and sweets. It will especially look great on baking recipe videos. And it will surely attract the attention of anyone who loves sweets and treats.

Fitness YouTube Thumbnail Template

If you’re creating fitness videos to promote your gym on YouTube, this thumbnail template will be quite useful to you. It comes with a simple design that helps you include more information in the thumbnail to promote your videos and the business. It comes in multiple resolutions as well.

7 Gym & Fitness YouTube Thumbnail Templates

A bundle of more creative YouTube thumbnail templates for gym and fitness videos. This collection includes 7 different thumbnail designs in editable PSD files. They feature different styles of layouts to help get more views to your videos. All the text, shapes, and colors in the templates are editable as well.

5 Travel & Vacation YouTube Thumbnail Templates

You’ll never run out of stylish thumbnail designs for your travel and tour videos when you have this bundle of YouTube thumbnail templates at your side. It includes 5 different styles of thumbnail designs that are perfect for your outdoor and travel vlogs.

Free YouTube Thumbnail for Gaming Videos

Grab this free YouTube thumbnail template to create a cover for your gaming videos. This template is ideal for making game review videos as well as podcast videos. The template is free to use with attribution. You can edit it using Adobe Illustrator.

Free Food Recipe YouTube Thumbnail Cover

This free YouTube thumbnail template comes with a simple and clean design. It’s perfect for making covers for food recipe videos as well as food review videos. The template comes in EPS file format and with fully editable components. Make sure to attribute its author when using the free template.

5 YouTube Thumbnail Tips for Generating More Clicks

The main goal behind using a YouTube thumbnail template is to drive more clicks and views to your videos. These tips will help you achieve that goal.

Create a Consistent Look

Branding is an important part of creating a successful YouTube channel. If you look at any popular YouTube channel, you’ll see how they have a consistent look across its profile, including the channel cover and thumbnails.

The easiest way to create a consistent look in your YouTube videos is to use a thumbnail template. Use the same template across all your videos. This will make your videos stand out in search results and make your brand instantly recognizable.

Use Big Bold Titles

If all YouTube thumbnails have one thing in common that’s the giant title. Every thumbnail now uses big bold titles that grab attention. These big titles help the audience easily understand what the video is about and get them to click on the link.

Make sure that you also use big bold titles in your YouTube thumbnails. And, more importantly, create good contrast between the background and the text.

Pick the Right Font

When talking about the title design of YouTube thumbnails, we can’t ignore the importance of using a great font.

Use a premium font, if you can, for your YouTube thumbnail text. There are YouTube fonts you can find with various designs. Use the right font that fits your channel content and brand.

Use Fewer Images

The thumbnail of a YouTube video is all about summarizing the contents of the video. And you need to do it while using a very few elements to avoid clutter and distraction.

As a rule, avoid using too many images in your thumbnail. Use just one close-up image or a cropped-out portrait if possible. Usually, images with faces that show various reactions tend to get the most clicks. This is why you see a lot of YouTube thumbnails with mouths wide open, among many other funny reactions.

Arouse Curiosity

Plan your YouTube thumbnail design in a way that arouses the user’s curiosity. You need to get them intrigued and excited to click the link and watch your video.

In addition to refining the design, colors, and layout of your thumbnail, you should also experiment with different copy for the titles to find what works best for your channel.

November 19, 2024

Color Psychology in Action: Choosing Colors That Influence User Behavior

There’s a close connection between the traffic lights and the “sale” signs you see in stores and online. Can you guess what it is?

From the early days of our childhood, we are taught to stop at traffic lights when they turn Red and to always pay close attention to them. When we grow up, we unknowingly follow the same rule whenever we see a sign or an ad using that same color.

Have you noticed how every “sale” sign is designed using a Red background? Because it instantly commands attention!

There’s a psychology behind the colors we see in the designs around us. Designers and marketers have been using this concept to create more impactful branding designs and advertising campaigns for decades.

But is color psychology a real thing? How does it work? Can you use it in your own design projects? Let’s find out.

Color Psychology in Action

(Credit: TheLogoCompany)

Isn’t it strange how the biggest brands in the same industry share similar colors in their branding designs?

Some of the most influential tech companies such as Facebook, IBM, Intel, Salesforce, Samsung, and Dropbox all share the color Blue in their brand identity design as it’s associated with trust, reliability, and security.

It’s the same reason why many luxury brands, like GUCCI, Prada, CHANEL, and Louis Vuitton, use the black color in their designs as it’s the color of minimalism, elegance, and sophistication.

Each and every one of these colors has the power to connect with humans on a personal level and evoke different emotions. That’s what color psychology is all about. And it’s not just a concept either, there’s actual science behind it.

Science Behind Color Psychology

Color psychology spans many different areas, subjects, and industries ranging from genders to cultures, lifestyles, professions, and much more. And there have been many studies proving the impact of color psychology in each of these areas.

When it comes to color psychology in branding and user experience design (UXD), there are a few specific studies that show interesting findings.

One research published in the International Journal of Management and Human Science has found that people often make the decision to buy a product within 90 seconds and about 62 to 90% of that product assessment is done based on the colors alone.

A great example of this is the Coca-Cola product design. Whenever you see a soft drink can with a white logo on a red background, you immediately assume it’s Coca-Cola and grab it off the shelves without a second thought. Also, note that this is the same color combination used in those “sale” and “discount” signs in supermarkets.

Another research from the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science has solidified the importance of color usage in branding design and how strong of an impact it has in forming consumer brand perceptions. Proven again by another study from the University of Loyola, which found that “color increases brand recognition by up to 80 percent.”

(50,000-year-old cave paintings, Serra da Capivara National Park, Brazil / Source: Wikimedia)

All these research and studies are examples of how our human brain processes colors and how they evoke different feelings and emotions. It’s nothing new really, color psychology has been around since the birth of civilization, proven by even the findings of the earliest cave paintings using colors such as red, yellow, and gray colors depicting scenes of hunting, clashing, and sexual activity.

How Colors Affect User Behavior

Whenever someone appears to be feeling sad, we often ask “Feeling blue?”. Or when someone’s angry, we say “his face was red”. There’s a reason why we associate these emotions with specific colors.

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All these colors have associations with our emotions. However, the same colors can also evoke different emotions based on the situation as well.

For example, companies like Facebook and PayPal use the color blue to evoke a sense of socialness, trust, and loyalty. While that same color is used by law enforcement agencies to convey security and dependability.

Another example is the color red. When we see this color on a stop sign, we immediately feel a sense of alertness and attention. But brands also use this same color to evoke feelings of excitement, passion, and sometimes power.

For a much more detailed understanding of color psychology, we encourage you to explore the ColorPsychology.org website. It includes more in-depth explanations about each color and how they affect emotions.

Myths and Misconceptions

Color psychology is not a magic formula and it certainly doesn’t work the same way for everyone. As we mentioned before, the effects of color depend on the context and situation. And it’s also important to remember that people from various parts of the world and different cultures have unique associations with colors.

The colors you use to evoke a sense of excitement could translate into a completely opposite reaction from people from a different part of the world.

(Strawberry Coca-Cola in Japan / Source: Stars and Stripes)

For example, in Western culture, the color black is associated with luxury and elegance while the same color represents death and mourning in Eastern cultures. When creating designs that target international audiences, understanding the symbolism of color is crucial to creating universal designs.

5 Tips for Choosing Effective Colors

Color psychology is not just about evoking emotions and persuasion. You can use it in user experience design to create color schemes that improve user engagement and retention as well.

These tips will help you choose a more harmonious color palette for your designs while also making your designs more effective and accessible.

1. Design with Accessibility in Mind

Accessibility is one of the most important aspects to keep in mind when creating a color scheme for a design. Making your designs accessible to all, including people with disabilities like color blindness, is not only required by the law but it’s also part of making more inclusive designs.

When it comes to choosing colors, always remember to pick color tones and shades that meet accessibility standards.

2. Pick the Right Shades and Contrast

The shades and the contrasting of the colors you use will also have different psychological effects on people. A good example is the new trend of pastel and soft colors, which aims to create more soothing and calming vibes through designs. However, a small adjustment to color contrast will make a different outcome in such a design project.

3. Guide Users Toward Action

Colors can also be used to guide users and persuade them to take action. For example, the colors used in Call to Action (CTA) buttons on websites are designed with this goal in mind. These CTAs often feature brighter accent colors like red or green to grab attention and also to create a sense of urgency, which persuades users to click the “buy” button much faster.

4. Understand the Target Audience

Understanding the culture, ethnicities, and beliefs of your target audience is also crucial to creating a more appropriate color palette that’s also effective. When creating color schemes that target a wide range of audiences, it’s always best to go with tested and proven colors used by the more successful brands.

5. Test the Color Palettes

It’s always wise to test your color schemes and designs before going public. If you can’t afford a focus group, you can use various other means to test your designs. Even using platforms like Reddit and Facebook groups would suffice. Or you can use affordable user testing platforms such as UserTesting to get that job done.

Conclusion

Whether you’re designing a brand identity, crafting an app interface, or even a social media campaign, having an understanding of color psychology is vital to delivering more effective and successful results.

Having even a basic understanding of color psychology is enough to make a big difference in your design outcomes. However, you should follow a proper course from a reputable institution to get all the accurate knowledge about this subject.

You can also explore our gallery to see how different kinds of designs use color psychology with their respective color palettes included. And read up on the latest color trends here.

November 18, 2024

120+ Christmas Mockups, Icons, Graphics & Resources

Christmas is on the way! Whether you’re designing festive party flyers, looking for Christmas mockups, or a holiday icon set, we have a great collection for you today!

We’ve pulled together a fantastic collection of Christmas flyers and templates, mock-ups, icons, vectors, and much more. Some of them are completely free, some cost a few dollars, but all of them will get you in the festive spirit.

Have fun looking through this selection of resources, and we hope you find a few that help out with your holiday design work!

12 Christmas & Happy New Year Card Templates

Looking for a simple Christmas card template to print out a few greeting cards at home? Then this template pack is for you. It includes 12 different Christmas and Happy New Year cards with beautiful designs. Available in AI, EPS, and JPG formats.

Christmas Family Greetings Card Template

This is a beautiful Christmas greeting card template for creating personalized holiday cards and photo collages. Perfect for scrapbook lovers or families wanting to spread some festive cheer. It’s compatible with Canva, Illustrator AI, Photoshop PSD and Vector EPS.

Christmas Greetings Card Template

Share the spirit of Christmas with this unique Christmas greeting card template. Ideal for postcards, photo cards, invitations, or flyers, it offers a customizable design in Canva, Illustrator AI, Photoshop PSD, and Vector EPS formats.

Christmas Photo Card Template

An ideal Christmas greeting card template for those looking to add a sprinkle of holiday cheer to their festive projects. Available in an array of formats including Canva, Illustrator AI, InDesign IDML, INDD, Photoshop PSD, and Vector EPS, this customizable template can effortlessly transform into a family keepsake.

Christmas Photo Collage Template

This Christmas photo collage template is the perfect way to document and display your holiday memories. Ideal for both personal and professional use, this asset allows you to compile your favorite festive moments into a vibrant collage, suitable for albums, scrapbooks, or holiday cards.

Christmas Party Flyer Template

This is a versatile, easy-to-use Christmas flyer template that’s perfect for spreading the word about your holiday party. Key features include AI and EPS files, customizable fonts and colors, and a resolution of 300 dpi CMYK, making it print-ready.

Christmas Social Media Templates

This bundle of Christmas social media posts are designed to enhance your festive posts. They offer a perfect mix of classic and modern themes, allowing for customizable holiday greetings or announcements. It includes five layouts, editable text, color, objects, and compatibility with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

Christmas Instagram Story Templates

A collection of Instagram story templates ideal for marketers and planners looking to inject festive flair into their social media campaigns. Offering designs in Illustrator AI and Vector EPS formats, this tool helps create eye-catching Instagram and Facebook stories, perfect for promoting holiday events or sales.

Christmas Flyer Templates

A modern and festive flyer template for Christmas promotions. It offers a well-structured, easily customizable design with editable color schemes, text, and images according to your needs. It’s perfect for creating attractive flyers to promote your upcoming Christmas parties.

Cold Winter Sale Day Flyer and Instagram Post Templates

This collection of Instagram post templates is perfect for advertising your shop’s sales and seasonal offers. It also includes an easy-to-edit flyer template in print-ready format as well as Instagram story formats. The template’s smart objects make adding your own images to the design a breeze. The flyer features free fonts and is fully customizable too.

Festive Christmas Frames Mockups

This is a set of four photo frame templates with a holiday theme, ideal for personalizing with your own photos, designs, or artwork. These high-resolution (5000×3333 px, 300 DPI) mockups come in a landscape layout and have neatly organized, customizable layers.

Red Modern Christmas Greeting Card Template

A sleek card template for personalized holiday messages. The template is compatible with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, and it allows complete customization of texts, images, and graphics on separate layers.

Screen Mockup With Santa Hands

This is a package of five device mockups, showcasing mobile devices held by Santa’s gloved hands. Provided in both landscape and portrait orientations, the PSD files are easy to customize with your own text or graphics using Adobe Photoshop CC or higher.

Winter Fest Christmas Flyer Template

An ideal pick for promoting all your winter events, parties, and festivals. Easy to customize with well-organized files, the template comes in both PSD and Ai files and in A4 size.

Christmas Party Poster Template

This template boasts a timeless design that is both eye-catching and functional. It features easily adjustable elements courtesy of well-organized layers, consists 100% of vector imaging and is fully editable.

Boxing Day Sale Celebration Flyer

This flyer comes with an easily customizable and editable layout geared towards Boxing Day events and parties. Its organized files expedite your design process, and the package includes both Ai and PSD files with an A4 artboard size.

Christmas Sale Ad Banners Pack Templates

An enticing bundle of 21 ad banner templates in various shapes and sizes designed for Christmas sales promotions. This pack adheres to the requirements of Google Adwords and social media, offering versatility in promoting your products.

Handrawn Blue Christmas Sale Flyer Set

This collection offers three stylish flyer templates in a striking blue theme. Easily customized with Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, these designs are a quick and efficient way to promote any event.

Vintage Christmas Party Flyer Templates

Spread the word about your cool Christmas party with this party flyer template. It features a classic vintage design that you can easily customize with Photoshop to add your own details and change colors.

Christmas Background Mockup Templates

This is a simple Christmas-themed background mockup you can use to showcase various products. There are 9 different backgrounds included in this bundle in high-resolution.

Christmas Frame Mockup Template

A set of minimal and modern photo frame mockups with Christmas decorations. It includes 6 mockups based on real photos. Available in fully layered PSD files with smart objects.

Free Christmas Gift Box Mockup

This is a simple and free mockup template you can use to showcase Christmas gifts or create mockup scenes for product promotions. It includes 2 gift box designs.

Christmas Sale Gift Voucher Template

Easily create professional Christmas-themed gift voucher designs for your holiday promotions using this template. The template is fully customizable and you can edit it using Photoshop to change fonts, colors, and details.

Vintage Christmas Card Templates

A set of Christmas card templates featuring vintage designs. The minimalist design of these templates makes them perfect for both business and personal use. There are 5 card templates in the bundle.

Christmas Promotion Mockup Template

This is a Christmas mockup you can use for various purposes, including social media promotions, posters, flyers, and more. You can easily edit the text and change colors using Photoshop.

Christmas-Themed iPhone Mockup Template

If you’re promoting an app, website, or products from an online store, this bundle of iPhone mockups will be quite useful for Holiday promotions. It includes 5 Christmas-themed mockups in PSD format.

27 Free Christmas 3D Icons

A collection of free Christmas icons for you to use with your promotions. This pack includes 27 cute icons with 3D-like designs. The icons are available in PNG format.

Creative Christmas Mockup

This is a bundle of 10 creative Christmas mockup scenes you can use to showcase various Christmas greeting card designs, postcards, posters, and much more. All of the mockups are available in PSD files featuring smart objects.

Modern Christmas Card Template

A modern Christmas card template for designing stylish greeting cards. This template comes in both A4 and A5 sizes in Photoshop file format. You can also easily edit the template to change colors and text as well.

Hand Drawn Christmas Cards Collection

This is a bundle of creative Christmas card templates that feature hand-drawn illustrations and designs. The pack includes 6 unique card designs and the templates are available in Illustrator AI and EPS file formats.

Christmas Gold Picture Frame Mockup

Use this set of Christmas mockups to showcase your various photos and designs. This gold picture frame mockup comes in 3 different styles featuring smart objects for easily placing your designs in the frame.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Card Templates

This collection of templates include greeting card and flyer designs for both Christmas and New Year celebrations. The templates are available in AI and EPS file formats as well.

6 Christmas Patterns

The creative patterns in this pack are perfect for designing various Christmas-themed designs such as backgrounds for greeting cards, websites, postcards, and even for wrapping paper.

A4 Brown Christmas Mockup

An elegant Christmas card and flyer mockup featuring a natural background setting. This mockup comes in 3 styles and it supports all kinds of A4 size designs.

Cute Minimal Christmas Card Set

A collection of cute and adorable Christmas card templates featuring minimal designs and creative illustrations. These templates are available in 4 different designs as well as in PSD, AI, and EPS file formats.

Kids Celebrating Christmas Vector Illustration

You can use this cute illustration of kids celebrating Christmas to design greeting cards, website headers, promotional graphics, and much more. It’s available in AI and EPS file formats.

30 Christmas Day Icons

A set of 30 creative icon designs featuring various elements related to the Christmas. The icons are available in both outline and fill versions and come in AI, EPS, and SVG file formats.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Banners

This is a collection of vector banners you can use to design different types of Christmas and New Year’s creations, promotions, and branding materials. The pack includes 5 gorgeous designs in AI, EPS, PDF, and JPG formats.

Christmas Wreath Creator

With this unique graphics pack, you’ll be able to create your own stylish Christmas wreaths by yourself. It comes with 22 wreaths, 2 bows, and 3 ribbons, all as separate elements you can drag around to create beautiful Christmas wreaths.

Christmas Vector Elements Toolkit

A Christmas design toolkit for designing creative Christmas designs. This bundle comes with more than 100 elements you can use to create your own beautiful Christmas cards, banners, posters, and flyers. It also includes 4 premade Christmas card templates.

Christmas Scene Creator

This is a collection of isolated Christmas-themed elements you can use to create your own unique Christmas scenes for various designs projects. The bundle includes 32 Christmas elements, 5 premade PSD scenes, and 6 backgrounds.

Hand Drawn Santa Claus Illustrations

A collection of cute and adorable Santa Claus illustrations you can use to design unique Christmas cards, banners, and flyers. It includes 13 different Santa illustrations with various poses in PNG and AI file formats.

Watercolor Christmas Florals Collection

A beautiful collection of Christmas florals featuring watercolor designs. All of the illustrations in this pack are hand-drawn to add a more authentic look to your Christmas cards, posters, and banner designs.

Christmas Overlays, Cliparts, & Graphics Bundle

Another big bundle of Christmas graphics. It includes many creative photo overlays, Christmas photos, cliparts, lettering, and lots of isolated objects for crafting unique Christmas designs.

White Christmas – Scene Creator

If you’re planning on updating your website and social media page covers with a creative Christmas-themed design or even creating a unique scene to showcase your products, this bundle will come in handy. It includes 30 different Christmas elements that you can rearrange however you like to create beautiful Christmas scenes.

Merry Christmas – Handdrawn Lettering Objects

This is a collection of unique Christmas-themed objects. It comes with a total of 43 items in EPS, SVG, and PNG formats. You can use them to create unique greeting cards, packaging designs, flyers, and much more.

Santa Claus – Christmas Vector Collection

Looking for a cute Santa Claus to include in your new advertisements, promotions, and designs? With this pack of vector illustrations, you’ll have plenty of choices.

Christmas Mock Up Photos Collection

This bundle includes 21 unique mockup templates for Christmas-themed items, such as packaging, greeting cards, and much more. The templates are available in easily customizable PSD files.

Merry Christmas Backgrounds

A beautiful and a customizable Christmas background you can use to create a website header, social media cover, and product showcase. The background is available in an Illustrator file you can edit to change colors and text.

Christmas Outline Icons Pack

This is a pack of Christmas icons featuring 25 colorful icons with many common Christmas items. You can use it to create unique greeting cards, social media posts, ads, promotions, and more.

85 Hand-Dawn Christmas Elements & Wreaths

This massive bundle of Christmas elements includes lots of useful items you can use to create greeting cards, posters, flyers, and more. It comes with 85 customizable Christmas wreaths, illustrations, and tons of other items.

6 Vector Christmas Backgrounds

A collection of vector background textures for customizing your Christmas-themed designs. This pack includes 6 unique backgrounds with hand-drawn designs.

Christmas and New Year’s Greeting Cards Collection

This bundle comes with 72 unique greeting card templates for creating cards for both Christmas and New Year’s. The templates are available in high-resolution and can be customized using Illustrator.

52 Christmas Overlays & Vector Set

Another bundle full of hand-drawn Christmas overlays and vector elements. This pack 13 unique designs in 4 different color schemes. All of the designs are available in editable AI, EPS, and PSD file formats.

Christmas Sales Banner Collection

Working on a promotional banner for a Christmas sale? Then you can download this pack of sales banner templates to quickly design a promotional advertisement for your business. It includes 6 different template designs.

Christmas Sharp Badges

A collection of colorful and creative Christmas badges. These will come in handy when designing greeting cards, social media posts, and many other types of promotional material.

Christmas Social Media Posts

No need to hire designers to create Christmas-themed posts for your social media promotions, simply use these templates. This bundle includes 20 editable templates for creating different kinds of posts for Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

X-Mas Seamless Patterns Set

This collection of patterns include 12 seamless patterns featuring Christmas-themed designs. These are ideal for creating backgrounds for greeting cards, posters, flyers, and packaging.

75 Christmas Cliparts

A bundle of creative Christmas cliparts featuring many different types of designs and illustrations. It includes 75 cliparts in vector format you can use with both print and digital designs.

Christmas Cards Mega Set

No need to go shopping for Christmas cards or New Year’s cards. With this massive pack of Christmas cards templates, you can print your own unique cards to send to your friends and family. It includes 78 Christmas and New Year’s greeting cards templates.

Christmas Vibes – 33 Elements and Graphics

This is a special bundle full of various Christmas themed elements including different types of graphics and illustrations. As a bonus, you will also get 2 beautiful print-ready Christmas greeting card templates as well.

Christmas Santa Claus Flyer

Are you working on promoting a special Christmas event? This cool flyer template will help you with the marketing process. You can easily edit and customize this A4 sized template to design a flyer to promote your holiday events.

50 Flat Christmas Icons

Whether you’re designing graphics for a website, social media posts, flyers, or greeting cards, this pack of Christmas icons has got 50 beautiful graphics that will add a great festive look to your designs.

Christmas Flyer Template

Another Christmas flyer template for promoting events, parties, and concerts. It includes both Photoshop and Illustrator formats, which allows you to freely edit and customize the template to your preference.

48 Christmas Doodles

Easily design your own flyers, greeting cards, and social media posts using these gorgeous Christmas doodles. This pack comes with 48 unique vector doodles you can use with your designs.

Retro Christmas Flyer Template

Another Christmas flyer that features a trendy retro design. It’s perfect for promoting holiday sales, concerts, parties, and various other events. The flyer template comes to you in both Illustrator and Photoshop file formats.

Christmas Graphics Bundle Gold Edition

This one is a mixed bundle of Christmas resources. This special pack includes 32 Christmas icons, 13 Christmas labels, 8 postcard templates, 10 patterns, 15 handwritten Christmas inscriptions, and more.

Vintage Christmas Kit

This bundle of Christmas illustrations features a vintage and a retro look. You can use them to design greeting cards, social media posts, and more with a classical design. It includes 17 different elements and 2 Christmas themed backgrounds.

Christmas Patterns & Illustrations

A set of 6 unique Christmas patterns and illustrations for crafting festive website headers, social media posts, and greeting cards. The files are available in JPG, PNG, and EPS formats.

Christmas Character Creator

This is a fun pack of elements that allows you to create your own Christmas themed characters. You can create Santas, reindeers, elves and more by combining different elements from the pack.

66 Christmas Patterns & Graphics

Another mixed pack of Christmas themed patterns and graphics. You can use these to design greeting cards, website backgrounds, flyers, and more.

Christmas Vibes Flyer Template

This Christmas flyer template is perfect for promoting your holiday parties, DJ events, dance events, and more. The PSD format templates can be easily customized to change colors and rearrange elements as well.

100 Christmas Doodle Icons

A big pack of 100 doodle style Christmas elements. You can use these to style your websites, design greeting cards, flyers, and do much more. The icons are available in EPS, PNG, AI, and SVG file formats.

Christmas Bundle

This is a massive bundle that includes dozens of Christmas cards, text effects, Christmas photo cards, elements, and holiday flyer templates worth of $78, all in a 500mb pack for just $19.

Rustic Christmas Megapack

With over 125 Christmas elements and 16 background patterns, this pack will provide you with everything you need to craft all sorts of Christmas related designs.

Christmas & New Year Flyer Bundle

This 5-in-1 flyer bundle comes with five beautiful Christmas flyer designs and a new year flyer design, all in 4×6 size.

Holiday & Christmas bundle

Featuring 18 stunning character illustrations, 30 floral elements, 10 festive borders, 26 decorative goodies, and much more, the Holiday & Christmas bundle will definitely bring out the joy in your designs.

Christmas Set

This pack includes plenty of beautiful Christmas icons and elements, which you can use to design all sorts of Christmas themed banners, cards, and more.

Merry Christmas greetings & doodles

In addition to 50 adorable doodles, this Christmas pack includes 13 greeting card templates, 3 patterns, and an Advent calendar.

Polar Bears, Christmas illustrations

Polar bears make everything look adorable. This bundle features 8 cute polar bear characters, 12 greeting cards, 3 patterns, 7 labels, and more.

Christmas & New Year’s Icons

This pack comes with 75 Christmas and 55 New Year’s icons, all hand-drawn. Each icon in the bundle is available in 4 different graphic styles.

Christmas Illustrations toolkit

This cute Christmas bundle includes 16 character illustrations featuring a Dog, Santa, Bear, Penguin, and more. It also includes 40 Christmas items, 10 hand-drawn decorative elements, and many others.

Hand-drawn Christmas Tree elements

This hand-drawn pack includes over 30 different Christmas tree elements, shapes, and icons in vector and PNG formats.

Christmas Characters Set

Create your own unique Christmas story with this creative Christmas characters set, which comes with over 30 different elements.

Noël Christmas Collection

Noël Christmas Collection takes an interesting approach to Christmas design. Instead of the predictable Red-colored Christmas designs, this collection adds a whimsical look to all of its 180 items.

Christmas Birds & Flowers Vectors

This set features 58 different Christmas clipart elements including a cardinal bird, a chickadee bird, poinsettias, flowers, leaves, a pine cone, and a whole lot more.

Hand Drawn Christmas Quotes in Shapes

These stylish Christmas quotes will fit in nicely with your Christmas card designs or flyer designs. The pack contains 5 hand-drawn quotes in shapes.

Christmas Wreath & Frame Collection

This pack includes 25 designs of Christmas wreath and frames. Perfect for designing Christmas related invitations, newsletters, cards, and stationery.

Watercolor Christmas Clipart

In this bundle, you’ll get over 100 Christmas elements, 5 Christmas card designs, and 2 seamless patterns, all in one affordable pack.

Christmas cards set

No need to design your own Christmas cards. This pack includes 20 card templates for both Christmas and New Year.

Hand Drawn Christmas Badges

White Christmas Badges

Merry Christmas Poster

Dark Blue Christmas Background

Retro Christmas Badges

Hand Painted Christmas Tree

Watercolor Christmas Card

Christmas Card with Red Ribbon

Retro Christmas Party Label

Cute Christmas Party Flyer

Green Christmas Background with Baubles

Christmas Card in Watercolor Style

Boxing Day Sales Labels

Striped Christmas Flyer

Christmas Greeting Card with Garlands

Christmas Party Invitation Template

Christmas party invitation with ribbons, stars and flowers. Two different color variations included – beige and green.

Christmas Party Invitation Flyer

You can use this template for your home party or club party to invite friends, relatives and other people. Easy to edit the text and font.

Big Christmas Medallion Collection

This big collection is all you need to make all of your Christmas and winter holidays stationery. A total of 113 + 2 hand painted watercolor elements, patterns and backgrounds – all in co-ordinating colors and high quality.

Christmas Party Flyer

The PSD file is very well organized in folders and layers. You can modify everything very easyily. Changing the color style, pictures and the typo is no problem. The main folders that will require most customization are highlighted in different colors.

Christmas Party Flyer Template

This Christmas party flyer template is very modern PSD (Photoshop) flyer that will give the perfect promotion for your upcoming event or nightclub party coming up on Holidays of Christmas and New Year. All elements are in separate layers and text is editable.

Christmas Design Elements Kit

Cute doodle Christmas design kit. The elements are very easy to combine and will help you in making your own designs.

Seamless Christmas Patterns

Perfect for making invites, invitation cards, and much more. The pack includes 6 PNG files (1000 x 1000 px) with transparent background so you can easily pick your own color to match with your project. The design is for your personal use or small crafts business.

Christmas Holiday Vintage Florals

Our Christmas Holiday Floral Clipart set includes 40 PNG files with transparent backgrounds, 40 JPG files with white backgrounds and 1 Adobe Illustrator vector file containing all 40 images in vector format. The PNGs and JPGs are 300DPI and approximately 10 inches at their widest point.

Watercolour Christmas Set

A beautiful set of Christmas Holiday watercolor designs, background and patterns to decorate your holiday projects! Use them in personal craft or in small business as a part of your own creative composition. Product contains ZIP folder with high quality PNG and JPEG clip art pictures.

Retro Christmas Illustrations

Authentic, 1940s and 1950s Christmas illustrations scanned in high resolution. Carefully checked for copyright, thoroughly restored and ready for you to use for all kinds of personal and commercial design projects.

Christmas-Holiday Photo Overlays

Christmas and holiday overlays with hand drawn and textured greetings and distressed textures.

Christmas Seamless Patterns

18 Christmas digital papers in red and white colors. Each pattern is seamless and can be tiled seamlessly in any directions. JPG files at high resolution with 300 DPI. Vector files can be resized without losing quality and can be recolored easily.

Christmas Eve Digital Papers

Twelve beautifully designed digital papers, saved as 300 DPI, 12 x 12 inches JPEG. You can use these backgrounds for your next Christmas based design projects.

Christmas Watercolors Based Elements

50 elements (JPG on white background, 300 dpi). 20 different individual branches (12 branches of pine, 2 holly, mistletoe bush 1, 2 bumps, 3 branches with red berries + some red berries). 2 glasses of mulled wine (+ 2 empty glass glasses). Spicy ingredients for mulled wine (2 apples, ginger, cloves, anise, 3 orange slices50, vanilla, cinnamon). Sweets (biscuits in the shape of stars, cookies with chocolate, marshmallows, candy stick, cookies).

Christmas Vector Elements

This pack is filled with icons, labels and many design elements based on Christmas format. All elements are organized by layers. It’s easy to hide or move any element.

Christmas Wreaths Clipart

Hand painted wreaths and other floral elements are the perfect illustration for your Christmas cards, Christmas tags and other your Holiday ideas.

Christmas Lights Decorations Set

Set of 11 vector brushes festive strands of Christmas lights makes it quick and easy to customize your holiday projects. These can be used on illustrations, cards and almost any similar design formats.

Licorice Christmas Watercolor Kit

This set includes 37 high-quality elements, that will be very helpful in creating gift cards, apparel prints, posters, presentations and so much more.

Christmas Flyers Bundle

These beautiful Christmas flyer templates are very easy to customise. All of the elements are isolated on different layers and the text is fully editable for each flyer and facebook cover. So you can use the fonts we suggest or use your own if you wish.

Christmas Patterns Pack

Perfect for making invites, invitation cards, Seasons greetings cards, Christmas cards, party decorations, party favor tags, label stickers, scrapbooking, stationary, gift wrap, packaging, t-shirt, baby clothes, buttons, pendants, holiday gifts, print on fabrics and so much more.

Christmas Hand-Crafted Illustrations Bundle

You can incorporate these Christmas illustrations into your creations. Included illustrations can be used in and out of the Christmas season, making this set an all-year-round resource.

Christmas Clipart

This Christmas clipart pack contains 44 separate seamless elements that you can use in your Christmas related designs. All elements come in vector format with 300 DPI.

Christmas Icons and Elements Set

This set of images can be used for printed paper products, web design, digital or paper scrapbooking, stickers, magnets, or invitations.

Christmas Trees Illustrations

A collection of mod Christmas trees and snowflakes in red, green, pink, silver, and gold. Pack contains an EPS file and also JPGS and PNG files of each tree.

Christmas Posters

Christmas Paintings Pack

You will get tons of watercolor paintings and ready print greeting card designs with this pack. All of them specially painted and scanned in high resolution. And also specially cleaned backgrounds with tablet on Photoshop. You can use with any colored grounds.

Christmas Greeting and Sticker Illustrations

A Christmas collection of graphic elements. Perfect to create greeting cards, invitation, stickers or other Christmas designs.

Christmas Cats

Christmas cats for your holiday designs, greeting cards, invitations, web graphics, scrap booking, posters, blogs and banners.

Christmas Border Designs

Hand drawn Christmas doodle seamless borders for decorative design, cards, winter backgrounds, gift tags and labels.

Christmas Party Flyers

A Christmas and Winter Party flyer template, with 2 Photoshop layered files. It’s fully editable, and CMYK print ready.

Christmas Baubles

This set comes with 18 hand drawn Christmas decorative graphic elements. You can use these graphics to create your vintage Christmas cards, invitations, gift tags, gift wraps, cupcake toppers, web graphics, scrap booking and a lot more.

Watercolor Christmas Collection

Set of watercolor posters on Christmas theme. Watercolor elements different kinds of drawing. On crumpled paper, chalkboard and on kraft. All ilustrations are in vivid and very colorful. Font is located on a separate layer.

Christmas Lights

Christmas lights on dark background. Pack contains vector set with Ai and PSD format.

Christmas Graphics Set

Christmas Collection with cute characters and graphic elements. Perfect for create greeting card, invitation, stickers or other your Christmas design. All elements on a white and black background.

Christmas Patterns Pack

Christmas Kraft Paper in red, green and white holiday designs on kraft paper, Christmas digital background paper with ornaments, reindeer, plaid, snow, snowflakes,Christmas tree and more. This paper has a kraft paper background texture to look like traditional kraft paper.

Beautiful Christmas Background

Christmas decorations: fur-tree branches, colorful glass balls, a candle, red glittering snowflakes, cinnamon sticks and anise stars on a rough wooden background with a copy space.

Christmas Cards Bundle

This pack contains Christmas lettering and Christmas cards with horizontal, vertical and square sizes. You can print this cards or use the web version.

Christmas Bundle

Large collection of Christmas cards, invitations, ornaments, design elements and tags. Since they’re all in vector format you get lots of ornaments, backgrounds, textures etc. that you can play around with to make your own creations.

Hand-drawn Christmas Elements Collection

Are you ready for Christmas? This package, with a brand new hand-drawn elements, contains everything you need for Christmas design. You can create greeting cards, invitations, party design, decorate blog, and do anything with these elements.

Holiday Christmas Design Bundle

This grand Christmas design pack contains over hundreds of beautifully designed vectors, flyer designs and over 36 Christmas card designs.

Christmas Ornaments Clipart Pack

Watercolor Christmas clipart set is a beautiful digital set of 22 watercolor styled Christmas elements, snowflakes, deers, balls, wreaths, twigs and dividers. Perfect for winter holiday invitations, cards, baby and bridal shower invitations, any other winter invitation design, scrapbooking, cardmaking, announcement cards, blogs, logos and photo overlays.

November 18, 2024

10 Tips for Perfect Poster Design

Almost everyone has designed a poster or flier at some point. Whether it was for self-promotion or a client, posters can be a fun way to present a message and do some interesting things with design.

Poster design starts with a common canvas. Common poster sizes are 8.5 by 11-inch letter (or A4), 11 by 17 inches and 22 by 34 inches. Large format poster sizes are commonly 24 inches by 36 inches. Posters can be designed vertically or horizontally, but are most commonly designed with a vertical orientation. Today we’re taking a look at ten useful tips for improving your next poster design!

Without further ado, let’s dive into the poster design tips!

Note: All of the poster designs featured here are pre-made templates from Envato Elements. You can download and use them to create your own poster or flyer designs.

1. Make it Easy to Read from a Distance

The top priority of a poster is generally to expose someone to an event. Key information should be easy to read from a distance to held draw people to the poster and create a hierarchy in the text.

When it comes to poster design you can think of text as having three distinct layers:

Headline: This is the main (and largest) text element in the design. It can be in addition to an art element or it can be the art element. Opt for a readable typeface that is interesting and demands attention.
Details: What, when, where? Answer these questions in the second level of the text. What information does someone need to do what your poster is asking of them? Provide the information here in a concise manner. As for sizing, there are two options – drop the size to about half of the main headline for very clear hierarchy or continue to use a larger size and use another technique for contrast. (The choice often depends on other elements and importance of secondary text.)
The fine print: This one explains itself. Commonly seen on posters to promote movies, it’s everything else that someone decided needed to be on the poster. Make it small and keep it out of the way.

2. Amp Up the Contrast

You have one glance to grab someone’s attention with a poster. High contrast between elements can help you do that. Forget a monotone color palette with pale gradients; go bold with color and type options. Poster design is a great time to try a typeface or color palette that might be too “crazy” for other projects. Experiment with it.

Think about a big color background as well. Many times poster designers start with a white canvas. If your printer allows, use a high color background with a full bleed to make your poster stand out from all the rest.

3. Consider Size and Location

This is important: Where is your poster going to be located? This factors in several ways, including the size of the poster (and possibly aspect ratio), visual clutter around the poster and will the people who see it appreciate your call to action?

Knowing where the design will live can help you make choices about how to create it. Not only is visual contrast important within your design, it is an important external factor as well. Think of it this way: If your poster is going to hang on a green wall, you probably want to use a contrasting color scheme so the design does not blend into the environment.

4. Make a Mini Version

While poster design is primarily a print project, create mini versions that can be used in other places as well. Remember one of those basic principles of marketing – a person needs exposure to something 20 times to remember it. The multiple poster versions can help you accomplish just that.

Scale down an image that can be shared on social media.
Make a postcard or letter size to hand out.
Consider making a “poster-version” landing page for your website.
Create a version that can be sent via email.

5. Use One Big Visual

Whether you choose a photo, illustration or text, a dominant image is key. And just like the text, it needs to be readable from a distance.

When designing posters, think tight — close-up crops of faces or elements, single item illustrations, a common scene with a sharp focal point, novelty typography with high intrigue. After you select a visual be careful about layering elements. Type and images need to have enough contrast so that they are independently readable.

6. Use Plenty of Space

When it comes to posters, use exaggerated spacing between elements. It may look a little funny to you at first, but the extra spacing will dramatically increase visual impact and readability at distances.

There are a few places where extra space can work wonders in poster design:

Between individual letters. Tight kerning can cause letters to blur at distances.
Between lines of text.
Around interior margins of the canvas.
Between elements of different types, such as images and text.
Around the most important element in the design. What do you want people to see first?

7. Include a Call to Action

The goal of every poster is to expose people to something. Most of these “touches” involve inviting someone to something, such as a concert or movie or another event. For that reason a call to action is vital. Think of it in the same way you would if designing a call to action for a website or app – give it a high-level of prominence in the design.

The difference from web design is that the call to action might not be as simple. (In websites “sign up” or “email us” are common actions that you can’t get on a poster.) The call to action is often the event information or a contact point in poster design. Once you know what users are supposed to do when they see the poster, then you can design the call to action. (Some designers really like elements such as QR codes to encourage users to scan for information; only use this tool if it is popular in your market.)

8. Create Focus with Typography

Poster design is one of those places where you can really go crazy with beautiful typography. Some of the best posters are made with type and color, with no images or illustrations.

Keep the same typography principles in mind that you would with any other project – this is not the time to use 10 fonts in one location. But do experiment with bolder, wider, bigger typefaces that you might feel comfortable with otherwise.

Set the tone for the project with these type options. Use type that conveys an appropriate mood for the event. You might find this challenging at first, but it can be a quite invigorating exercise.

9. Use a Cool Printing Technique

Depending on the location and audience for your poster a cool printing technique might be in order. There are a lot of things you can do on paper that just don’t work on digital projects. This might be the perfect opportunity to try out something like letterpress, screenprinting, foiling or use of a UV layer.

Many of these techniques are often reserved for higher-end projects or events with a certain level of prestige.

Talk to your printer in advance of settling on any special technique to make sure they can make the prints at the size you need. When it comes to printing techniques, there can be budgetary considerations as well. Some printing processes can be pricey; so make sure you have enough wiggle room with the budget before you get started.

10. Have Fun

Poster design is a place where designers can have a lot of fun. While there are plenty of things to think about and consider, this is an area where you can break the rules and go a little crazy with design.

So go for it. Try something that you’ve wanted to do or take the opportunity to learn a new technique or skill. Stretch your imagination to create something new and fresh. The goal of a poster is to grab attention from afar; get creative!

Conclusion

In an age with so much design talk centering around websites and apps, the art of poster design is often an afterthought. Poster design can be fun and give you plenty of room to stretch your design muscles.

Posters can work in a variety of ways for almost any project. They are a great form of promotion and can help expose the masses to your personal, business or client message.

November 18, 2024

Cybersecurity Red Flags That Designers Encounter Daily

Collaborating remotely and working with digital assets is just another part of graphic designers’ and creatives’ daily routine. However, relying on digital tools exposes designers to various cybersecurity risks that could put their projects, assets, and sensitive client information in danger. Recognizing certain cybersecurity red flags early on is important so your work and client data are always secure.

Here are common threats designers face:

Phishing Attempts Through Email and Messaging Apps

Phishing attempts are dangerous and, unfortunately, more common than ever. More than 90% of cyber attacks start with a phishing email. Scammers, under the disguise of clients, suppliers, or popular software platforms, lure designers to click on malicious links or download infected files. These types of attacks usually work because they encourage you to act fast.

Red Flags :

Emails from unfamiliar or slightly changed domains, such as “client@examp1e.com” instead of “client@example.com.”
Urgent requests that require immediate action, such as “click here to confirm” or “download now to avoid suspension.”
Attachments or links that seem unrelated to the current project.

Malware Embedded in Design Software or Plugins

Sometimes, designers might download new software updates, plugins, and files that contain malware. These downloads can contain malicious code. Cybercriminals take advantage of the code to access sensitive information or cause system malfunctions.

Red Flags :

Prompts directing you to “free” or cracked versions of popular software, which may contain malware.
Permission requests for access to system files or network settings.
Unusual software behavior like lags, crashes, or popping toolbars.

Insecure File Sharing and Unencrypted Connections

Collaborative design work is mostly done remotely today, therefore graphic designers constantly share files online. You should keep in mind that using unencrypted file-sharing methods or public Wi-Fi’s pose a significant risk for data interception.

Red Flags :

Unprotected file-sharing links, especially from public file-sharing services, without password protection.
File-sharing prompts that redirect to unfamiliar websites.
Public Wi-Fi networks without additional encryption.

Suspicious File Formats and Unusual Extensions

Designers deal with many file formats, including PSD, AI, JPG, and PDF. If you’re receiving files with sketchy or foreign extensions that you don’t recognize, avoid opening them. For example, malware often spreads with certain file types, such as EXE or SCR.

Red Flags :

Files with executable extensions (i.e., EXE, VBS) that are generally not used in design work.
Files with very little information or with no context.
A collection of multiple executable files zipped into files pretending to be images or documents.

Cloud Storage Vulnerabilities

Cloud storage is convenient, but it’s also a privacy risk when configured incorrectly. Without proper settings, unauthorized users could access shared links or even specific files.

Red Flags :

Files or folders that are set to “Anyone with the link can access.”
Shared links with expiration dates and without password protection.
Unusual access notifications indicating new login attempts into your accounts.

Practical Tips for Protecting Your Digital Assets

Without proper security and precautions, your work and reputation can be compromised instantly. Here are essential steps to ensure their protection:

Use a VPN with a File Checker

A virtual private network (VPN) is necessary to protect your connection when you work from home or use public Wi-Fi. It encrypts your internet traffic and masks your IP address, making it difficult for hackers to steal your data. This is very important when using open networks to connect to cloud platforms, file-sharing services, or client communications. Pair your VPN with a file checker to scan any incoming files, whether from clients or online resources. A file checker will scan the files for malware or viruses. It adds an extra layer of protection before you open or download anything onto your devices. A VPN with a file checker ensures that both your internet connection and file integrity remain safe.

Use Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)

Most cloud storage and collaboration platforms support two-factor authentication. It’s an additional level of security beyond your password. Logging in with 2FA requires your password, plus a second verification step, like a code sent to your phone. In other words, it becomes a lot harder for an unauthorized user to get into your accounts, even if they somehow breach your password.

Download Design Resources from Trusted Sources

There are plenty of design assets online, from fonts and plugins to stock photos that designers download, but how safe are they? Downloading from unverified websites or “cracked” versions of software can lead to a malware infection. Always use trusted platforms like Adobe, Envato, and Google Fonts to upload your files. These platforms have very strict security checks in place.

Safety Unleashes Creativity

Integrating security measures into your daily routine can be a life changer. It will keep your digital life safe and let you focus on creative work without worrying about cybersecurity threats.

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November 18, 2024

80+ Best Google Slides Themes & Templates 2025

Google Slides is one of the best free tools available for creating a quick slideshow presentation. And we’ve collected some of the best Google Slides themes and templates to help you create a visually stunning slide deck.

In this post, we’re featuring some of the best Google Slides templates you can use to create a professional presentation without designing everything from scratch. This collection includes various types of Google Slides themes, including templates for marketing purposes, startup pitch decks, product presentations, and much more.

The collection includes both free and premium Google Slides templates. Feel free to browse and pick one that matches your project and presentation!

What is Google Slides?

Google Slides is a presentation creation tool built by Google. It’s completely free to use and you can use it online without the need of installing any software on your computer. Think of it as a free and cloud-based version of Microsoft PowerPoint.

Just like PowerPoint, Google Slides provides you with all the tools and features you need to create beautiful slideshows and presentations. It’s quite easy to use and you can access it anywhere on your laptop or phone for free, as long as you have a Google account.

Google Slides also supports the use of templates. With pre-designed templates, you can easily import beautiful slide designs that have been already crafted by professional designers to easily create your own presentations.

To use a template, all you have to do is create a new Google Slides file and then go to the File menu and select Import Slides. From there you’ll be able to upload a template and import slide designs into the app.

If you’d like a few more helpful pointers, be sure to read through our Google Slides FAQs, and our tips for making a Google Slides presentation.

Top Pick

Moral – Multipurpose Google Slides Template

Moral is a modern and beautiful Google Slides templates that comes with a set of multipurpose slide designs. This template is most suitable for designing all kinds of creative, professional, and business presentations.

Moral Google Slides template comes with 30 unique slide designs that are available in 5 different color schemes. It also includes image placeholders and editable vector images as well.

Why This Is A Top Pick

The multipurpose design is what makes this Google Slides template special. In addition, it also features a clean and minimal design that can be adapted to create any type of presentation slideshow.

Be. Google Slides Themes

Be is a professionally crafted Google Slides theme that comes in Full HD 1920 x 1080px resolution. It includes over 125 unique slides with drag-and-drop editing. You can easily upload this template to Google Slides and edit them online.

Arthur – Creative Business Google Slides Template

This is a versatile Google Slides template perfect for a range of business presentations. Whether it’s for creative agencies, startups, or personal portfolios, this template allows for easy customization with over 30 slides, resizable graphics, and editable features.

Modern Minimal Google Slides Template

A sleek, modern Google Slides template for business presentations. The template includes 24 editable slides that cover a variety of business-related topics such as market analysis, company introduction, and social media marketing.

Tiyasa – Interior Design Google Slides Template

The Tiyasa is a creative Google Slides template tailor-made for presenting interior design projects. Its 20 modern and insightful slides come with easily modifiable elements to match your specific style or brand. The template utilizes free web fonts and fully customizable vector icons, offering a sleek and elegant presentation form.

Respaut – Fashion Google Slides Template

Respaut is a versatile Google Slides template that can enhance various projects like creative agency presentations, company profiles, corporate and business reports, personal portfolios, startup pitches, and even photography portfolios. With 30+ editable, resizable slides, this template offers user-friendly features like drag-and-drop picture placeholders and free web fonts.

Startup Business Google Slides Template

This is an excellent Google Slides template for presenting your company’s structure, vision, and growth strategies. This versatile template is customizable for wide-ranging uses, from pitch decks to financial reports, and will resonate with founders, executives, and other strategic roles.

Competitor Analysis Google Slides Template

Another valuable Google Slides template for businesses looking for a strategic edge. Ideal for marketing teams, strategists, and executives, this tool aids in analyzing competitors, evaluating market positioning, and identifying growth opportunities. Its multipurpose nature allows it to be used for a plethora of presentations.

Maternal – Minimal Google Slides Template

This Google Slides template offers an elegant, modern layout – perfect for various uses ranging from corporate presentations to personal projects. With 24+ unique slides, over 500 icons, and adjustable graphics, this sleek, professional interface enhances your content while keeping the focus on your message.

Gold Luxury Product Google Slides Template

This Google Slides template is ideal for luxury brands, designers and high-end marketers, adds an element of sophistication to your presentations. With striking visuals, it’s suitable for a range of uses, from product launches to investor pitches. Features include widescreen format, editable graphics, and drag and drop image placeholders.

Pet Care Google Slides Template

An engaging, colorful, Google Slides template designed with veterinarians, pet groomers, pet care businesses and animal shelters in mind. Ideal for presentations ranging from business pitches to educational workshops, the template’s resizable graphics and drag and drop functionality provide flexibility and simplicity.

Machine Learning Google Slides Template

This is a dynamic Google Slides template for professionals looking to explain and showcase machine learning concepts. Designed with educators, business leaders, and data scientists in mind, the template makes complex ideas easily understandable. With a sleek, professional design, customizable font themes, and color schemes, this template will elevate any machine learning presentation.

Sora – Multipurpose Presentation for Google Slides

Sora is a modern Google Slides template that comes with a beautiful design mixed with an aesthetic feel. This template features a multipurpose slide design with 20 different layouts to showcase your presentation. It’s available in PowerPoint format as well.

EARTHY – Company Profile Google Slides Template

This is a business-themed Google Slides template you can use to craft a unique company profile presentation for a modern brand. The template features a customizable slide design filled with creative shapes and image placeholders. There are 30 slides included in this template.

Astor – Business Presentation Google Slides Template

Astor - Business Presentation Google Slide Template

If you want to design a colorful presentation that instantly attracts attention, this Google Slides template is worth downloading. It has 39 different slides full of vibrant colors, shapes, and decorations. It’s perfect for creative business, agency, and branding presentations.

Business Model Presentation Google Slides Template

This Google Slides template is made with more technical business presentations in mind. It’s especially suitable for a business model, project scope, and competition analysis presentations. There are 35 slide layouts in the template with easily editable designs.

Free Marketing Plan Google Slides Template

This is a free Google Slides template you can use to craft modern and clean slideshows to showcase your business marketing plan. The template includes 28 unique slides with creative layouts.

Modern Pitch Deck Google Slides Template

This template will help you craft a killer slideshow for your pitch deck presentation. It’s ideal for modern startups, agencies, and various creative brands. The template has 30 unique slides. You can customize the colors, fonts, and images to your preference as well.

Hardwin – Business Google Slide Template

Hardwin is a business-themed Google Slides template that comes with a stylish and dark design. It includes 39 different slide layouts full of editable shapes, vector graphics, icon packs, free fonts, and much more.

Modern Real Estate Google Slides Template

A simple, clean, and minimal Google Slides template for all your real estate presentation needs. This template will help showcase your properties in a luxurious way to attract clients more easily. It comes with 30 unique slides.

Education Infographics Google Slides Template

Education Infographic Google Slides Template

This Google Slides template comes with a bunch of useful infographic slides. They are designed with education presentations in mind. It includes more than 30 different infographic designs with easily editable layouts.

Free Black & Gold Pitch Deck Google Slides Template

You can download this Google Slides template for free to craft a high-end pitch deck presentation for a luxury brand. It features a beautiful black and gold design across 36 unique slides.

Chetah – Business Google Slides Template

If you’re looking for a Google Slides template to design a presentation for your business, this template will provide a fresh start. It features a modern and professional design in all of its 39 slide layouts. The template includes lots of editable vector graphics and master slide layouts.

Bulma – Corporate Google Slides Template

Bulma is another professional Google Slides template made for corporate brands and companies. It’s ideal for making presentations for corporate meetings and events. The template comes with 39 slides with fully editable designs and image placeholders.

Bardox – Agency Google Slides Template

This Google Slides template features a very creative and stylish design that makes it a great choice for agencies and creative brands. The template has master slide layouts that you can use to create your own unique slides. It has a simple drag and drop design as well.

Classroom – Educational Google Slides Template

You can use this Google Slides template to create presentations related to educational institutes. The template includes a total of 150 slides featuring 5 pre-made color schemes to choose from. It’s great for promoting your learning programs, classes, and other school activities.

Free Company Profile Google Slides Theme

This free Google Slides template comes with a premium-quality design that can be used to create beautiful company profile presentations. There are 28 unique slides in this template with fully editable designs. You can download it in PowerPoint format as well.

Puche – Creative Google Slides Template

Whether you’re making a portfolio presentation or promoting your creative agency services, this Google Slides template has the perfect design for all your presentation needs. It includes 34 unique slide layouts with fully customizable designs.

Cevera – Colorful Google Slide Template

Cevera is a colorful and creative Google Slides theme for making more casual, fun, and attractive presentations. It’s especially more suitable for showcasing lifestyle brands, fashion products, and small businesses. The template comes with 30 unique slides with editable graphics and colors.

Project Proposal – Google Slides Template

This is a very professional-looking Google Slides template made specifically for project proposal presentations. It has many business-themed slides, including slides for SWOT analysis. There are 40 different slide designs included in this template.

Stradic – Brand & Business Google Slides Theme

If you’re looking for a minimalist presentation template, this Google Slides theme is perfect for you. It includes a collection of modern slide layouts with a classic urban-style design. This template is ideal for high-end fashion products and luxury brands.

Agency Company Profile Free Google Slides Template

This is a free Google Slides template you can download and use however you like. It comes with 27 unique slides full of colorful shapes, backgrounds, and editable vector graphics. It’s most suitable for making company profile presentations for agencies.

Propitch – Pitch Deck Google Slides Template

Propitch - Picth Deck Google Slides Template

You can use this Google Slides template to create an attractive pitch deck for your startups and marketing presentation needs. It includes colorful and dark-themed slide layouts with attractive designs. There are 27 unique slide designs included in the template as well.

Ukque – Vintage Brand Google Slides Template

Ukque is a creative Google Slides theme that comes with a set of colorful slide designs. It uses a vintage design mixed with modern elements to make each slide stand out. There are 45 slides in the template and they come in both light and dark color themes.

Boumz – Minimal Google Slides Template

Looking for a clean and minimalist presentation template? Then be sure to download this Google Slides theme. It features slides with minimal designs and lots of space for showing off your content. The template includes more than 50 unique slide layouts.

Bodybuild – Gym & Fitness Google Slides Template

While this Google Slides template is made with gym and fitness brands in mind, you can easily customize it to make presentations for many other topics as well. There are 30 unique slides in the template with editable colors, fonts, and images.

Graceful Vines – Free Google Slides Theme for Marketing

You can download this Google Slides template for free to create an elegant and professional-looking presentation for various marketing topics. It has 35 unique slides with editable charts, maps, and graphs.

Marble – Creative Google Slides Template

Marble is an elegant Google Slides template that features a modern slide design filled with colors and shapes. It comes with multiple slide layouts, including master slides, for easily designing unique presentations of your own.

Struggle – Business Google Slides Template

This professional Google Slides template is perfect for making different kinds of business and corporate presentations. The template includes 30 unique slide designs. You can also choose from 5 different color schemes to customize the slides.

Carolina – Agency Google Slide Template

Carolina is a creative Google Slides template that comes with a total of 150 slides. It’s most suitable for making presentations for agencies and creative professionals for showcasing their portfolio. The template includes editable graphics and image placeholders as well.

LUNAR – Dark Google Slides Template

Lunar is a modern Google Slides template you can use to design stylish and minimal presentations with a dark color theme. The template features 40 unique slide layouts with easily editable designs. It’s also available in a light color theme as well.

Memphis Marketing Plan – Free Google Slides Theme

This is a free Google Slides theme featuring a set of modern slide designs. It includes 23 unique slide layouts with editable vector graphics, shapes, and icons. The template is also available in PowerPoint version as well.

Bebek – Business Google Slides Template

This is a very professional Google Slides template you can use to craft all kinds of corporate and business presentations. The clean design will allow you to easily highlight your content above all else. The template features 39 different slides with fully editable layouts.

Brodi – Creative Google Slides Template

This Google Slides template is designed with a more focus on image-based content. Each slide features space for showcasing large images as well as written content. It’s ideal for fashion, lifestyle, and design-related presentations. The template comes with 39 unique slide layouts.

STREET – Urban Style Google Slides Template

STREET - Urban Style Google Slide Template

The dark color theme and the minimal design give this Google Slides template a modern urban look and feel. It’s perfect for all your lifestyle and urban business presentations. You can choose from 30 unique slide designs to create an attractive presentation for your brand.

MARTHER – Modern Google Slides Template

A modern Google Slides theme with a creative content layout. This template comes with 20 unique slides featuring image placeholders, editable shapes, changeable colors, and much more.

Free Market Research Presentation Template

This is a free Google Slides template you can use to craft presentations to showcase your market research projects. The template includes 27 different slides with easily editable layouts. It’s available in PowerPoint version as well.

Excors – Business Presentation Google Slides Template

Excors - Business Presentation Google Slide Template

Excors is a very professional Google Slides template that comes with a clean and modern design. It’s most suitable for making presentations for corporate agencies, brands, and startups. It includes 30 unique slides with editable vector graphics, icons, and shapes.

BOUNTY – Minimalist Google Slides Template

A beautifully minimalist presentation template for making slideshows for modern lifestyles, fashion, and clothing brands. This template includes 30 different slide layouts you can easily edit to your preference.

Organizer – Marketing Presentation Google Slides Template

If you’re working on a presentation for a marketing agency or brand, this Google Slides template will come in handy. It features 25 slides with professional layouts you can use to design marketing and business-themed slideshows.

Torento – Unique Google Slides Template

Everything from the color schemes to the content layouts in this Google Slides template is quite unique. It’s ideal for making attractive presentations for presenting your original ideas. The template includes 36 different slides.

Free Marketing Agency Google Slides Template

You can use this template to craft stylish marketing-related presentations for your brand or agency. It comes with 27 different slides full of free icons, graphics, and image placeholders.

Glammie – Google Slides Presentation Template

Design a stylish lifestyle or fashion presentation using this Google Slides template. It comes with a total of 150 slides featuring slides 5 different color schemes. It also includes editable vector graphics, illustrations, icons, and much more.

Retshion – Google Slides Presentation Template

If you prefer minimalist designs, this Google Slides template is perfect for crafting fashion lookbooks and portfolio presentations with a minimal approach. The template comes with 30 unique slides and they are available in 5 color schemes.

Blend – Creative Google Slides Template

Blend is a very creative Google Slides template you can use to design presentations for digital and marketing agencies. The template comes with 24 beautiful slides. It’s compatible with PowerPoint as well.

BARINCE – Modern Google Slides Template

This modern and multipurpose Google Slides template will allow you to design many different types of presentations for business and professional projects. The template comes with a total of 150 slides. Featuring 5 different color schemes with 30 unique slides in each template.

Niklea – Clean Google Slides Template

Niklea is a creative Google Slides template designed for creating clean and minimal presentations. The template lets you choose from 30 unique slides to make different types of professional slideshows. It also includes editable graphics and image placeholders.

Business – Google Slide Template

Another modern Google Slides template that’s most suitable for making business and corporate presentations. This template also includes 150 slides featuring various styles of slides in 5 different color schemes. It comes with master slides as well.

Belan – Minimal Google Slides Template

Belan is a minimal and elegant Google Slides template that features a creative slide design. It features lots of image placeholders that allow you to design visual and attractive slideshows for various presentations. The template includes 30 unique slide designs.

Annual Report – Free Google Slide Template

This free Google Slides template is ideal for making different kinds of business report slideshows. It includes 20 unique slide designs filled with image placeholders, master slide layouts, and much more.

INVESTYLE – Elegant Google Slides Template

Investyle is a modern Google Slides templates featuring a set of slides with highly visual designs. It includes placeholders for showcasing large images and titles. The template comes with 75 unique slide designs in both light and dark color themes.

THRAY – Modern Google Slides Template

Thray is a beautifully creative Google Slides template featuring a minimal content design. It’s perfect for designing presentations for travel and adventure businesses. The template comes with 30 unique slides with fully customizable designs.

Hectic Business – Google Slide Template

This modern Google Slides template lets you choose from 30 unique slides to design different business presentations and slideshows. The template is also available in 5 different color schemes featuring infographics and editable vector graphics.

Gloria – Colorful Google Slide Template

Gloria is a colorful Google Slides template most suitable for making creative and entertaining presentations. The template includes a total of 150 slides featuring 5 color schemes. It also includes image placeholders and lots of illustrations.

Communication Consulting – Free Google Slides Theme

Another free Google Slides theme for making simple presentations for consulting firms and agencies. This template comes with 16 unique slides with image placeholders and editable graphics.

Insine – Google Slides Template

Insine is a creative and colorful Google Slides theme you can use to create a professional slideshow for business and marketing presentations. The template comes with 50 unique slides featuring vector graphics, icons, and editable colors.

Nova – Modern Google Slides Template

Nova is a modern Google Slides template that comes with a set of professionally designed slide layouts. You can use it to create presentations for creatives, agencies, and startups. The template includes a total of 150 slides featuring editable vector graphics and custom-made infographics.

Vastra – Creative Google Slides Template

Vastra features a minimal yet creative slide design that makes it the perfect choice for making marketing and creative presentations. This Google Slides template comes with 30 unique slides. You’ll also be able to choose from 5 color schemes to design your presentations as well.

Sanma – Stylish Google Slides Template

Sanma is a creative and highly visual Google Slides template that features lots of large images. It includes image placeholders for you to easily replace the images with your own and the colors can be customized too. The template comes with a total of 150 slides.

Free Corporate Google Slides Template

Among many ordinary free Google Slides templates, this one stands out thanks to its high-quality slide design. This template has been designed for making presentations for corporate agencies and small businesses.

The template includes 8 unique slide designs and it comes in Google Slides, PowerPoint, and Keynote versions as well.

This template is one of the few free Google Slides templates that allows you to use it with both personal and commercial projects, as long as you include attribution. The professional design and the easily editable slide layouts make the template one of the best free ones on our list.

Business – Google Slides Template

This Google Slides template is made specifically for creating all kinds of business-related presentations. It includes modern slides for creating slideshows for everything from sales meetings to company profiles and startup pitch decks.

Creative Portfolio Free Google Slides Template

This free Google Slides template is designed for making portfolio presentations for creative professionals and agencies. The template includes 20 unique slides featuring transition animations, image placeholders, and more.

Case Study Minimal Google Slide Template

If you’re planning on making a stylish slideshow to showcase and present your case study, this free Google Slides template will come in handy. It features 20 unique slides made with case studies and reports presentations in mind.

Xanthopsia – Google Slides Template

Xanthopsia comes with a modern and elegant design filled with lots of images. It’s ideal for creating slideshows for businesses related to fashion and photography. The template includes 50 unique slides.

Guiza – Google Slides Template

Guiza is another professionally designed Google Slides template that comes in 5 different color schemes. The template includes a total of 150 slides with 30 unique slides in each template.

Gradation – Google Slides Presentation

Gradation is a beautiful Google Slides template that features a colorful design. The template comes with 50 unique slides in Full HD layout with lots of vectors, infographics, charts, graphs, and more.

Minotur – Google Slides Template

Minotur is a modern and minimal Google Slides template that features an elegant design. It’s ideal for creating slideshows for modern and luxury businesses and brands. The template includes 50 unique slides.

Rafaela – Google Slides Template

Rafaela Google Slides theme comes with more than 50 unique slides that are designed to highlight your presentations with lots of images. The slides can be easily customized and include image placeholders as well.

Strength White – Google Slides Template

This Google Slides template features 50 unique slides that are easily customizable to change colors, images, and shapes. It also includes lots of vector graphics, infographics, icons, and more.

Business Plan Free Google Slides Template

Business plan Google Slides template features a minimalist and black and white design. This template is ideal for creating simple and minimal presentations for creative agencies and businesses.

Minimal Portfolio Free Google Slide Template

Another creative free Google Slides template you can use to create presentations for creative and agency portfolios. The template features 20 unique slides filled with vector graphics, image placeholders, and editable colors.

Zane Free Modern Google Slides Template

Zane is a free Google Slides template that features a content-focused design that allows you to create presentations with lots of images. The template includes 11 unique slides.

Nabati – Google Slides Template

Nabati is a minimalist Google Slides template you can use to create a slideshow for businesses and brands as well as creative presentations. It comes with 30 unique slides and the template is available in 5 premade color schemes.

Gemio – Google Slides Template

Gemio is a Google Slide theme features modern slides design made for creating slideshows for tech and startup related presentations. It includes a total of 150 and it’s available in 5 color schemes.

BizPro. Google Slides Presentation Template

Easily craft a business proposal presentation with this Google Slides template. This template comes with more than 105 unique slide designs featuring Font Awesome icons and lots of vector graphics such as maps, charts, and graphs.

Pitch Deck Google Slides Template

Whether you’re pitching a product, a startup idea, or a business plan, this Google Slides template will help you cover them all. It includes 100 unique slides featuring a creative design and in retina-ready resolutions.

Photography Google Slides Template

This Google Slides template is designed with photographers in mind. It features 70 unique slide designs that help you highlight photos and designs. You’ll also be able to use this template for other presentations, such as fashion and clothing designs as well.

NORS – Google Slides Template

Nors is a highly minimalist Google Slides template that features a clean design. It has a modern look that will help you capture the audience’s attention. The template includes 130 unique slides as well. The colors and graphics are easily customizable.

Fashion Google Slides Template

This Google Slides template is made specifically for designing presentations for fashion-related brands and businesses. It comes with 80 unique and animated slides in Full HD resolution.

VIGO – Google Slides Themes

Vigo is a professionally designed Google Slides template that includes 110 unique slides in 1920 x 1080px resolution. The slides in this template are designed with a clean background to highlight its content. It also includes a pack of 500 line icons as well.

Free Outline Illustrated Google Slides Themes

This Google slides template comes with 25 unique slides and it features a modern and a colorful design. It also includes 80 icons and lots of vector charts and graphs as well. All of it comes to you free of charge.

Felipe Google Slides Template

A simple and free Google Slides template that’s ideal for designing slideshows for photography or fashion related presentations. The slides are easily customizable as well.

Creative Google Slides Template

Featuring an attractive dark color theme, this Google Slides template is best for creating presentations related to web design, photography, and more. The template comes with 50 unique slides in Full HD resolution.

Mastah Google Slides Template

Mustah is a Google Slides presentation that features a minimal design. The template includes 50 slides with modern layouts and with resizable vector graphics. It also includes gallery and portfolio slides as well.

Google Slides Brand Guidelines Template

This is a Google Slides template crafted for creating branding and marketing related presentations. The colors and the design of the slides have been carefully selected to highlight its content and message. The template includes 13 unique slides that are customizable with Google Slides and PowerPoint.

Startup Pitch Deck Google Slides Template

A Google Slides template featuring slides especially designed for creating startup pitch decks. This template includes a total of 100 slides, featuring business model slides, competition slides, timelines, maps, projections, and more.

HiBiz Google Slides Template

HiBiz is a Google Slides template that comes with a creative and a colorful design. This template is ideal for creating slideshows for creative agencies, professionals, design agencies, and startups. It includes master slide layouts, a library of vector icons, and comes in both light and dark color themes as well.

Kamana Google Slides Template

Kamana is a slideshow template that’s ideal for creating app presentations or for businesses related to technology. The template includes 25 unique slides in light and dark backgrounds. The template is available in 3 different color themes.

Creative Agency Google Slides Presentation

This is a Google Slides template made for creative agencies and professionals. The template includes 70 unique slide designs, featuring a masonry portfolio, animated slides, resizable vector elements, and much more.

Moksa – Creative Agency Google Slides Presentation

A yet another creative Google Slides presentation template for agency and business presentations. This template also includes 100 unique slides in Retina-ready Full HD resolution, vector elements, device mockups, and icons. The templates are easily editable as well.

edge Google Slides Template

Edge is a template that features a selection of over 220 unique slides. This Google Slides template includes lots of charts, graphs, maps, and infographics for showing off statistics and data in your presentations.

Approach – Multipurpose Google Slides Themes

Approach is a Google Slides template designed for both small businesses and corporate brands. The template comes with 100 unique slides with a total of 1010 slides for designing slideshows for many different types of presentations.

Kotak Interior Design Google Slides Template

Even though this template is designed for creating Slides presentations for interior design agencies, it can also be used to create other types of presentations as well. The template includes 100 unique animated slides.

MOGA. Small Business Presentation Google Slides

Moga is another Google Slides presentation template designed for crafting business and branding related slideshows. It includes 24 unique slides with a total of 2500 slides. It’s also available in dark and light color schemes as well.

Cocoon – Creative Google Slides Template

Cocoon is a Slides template that’s best for creating presentations for individuals and agencies. It includes 150 creatively designed unique slides with lots of vector graphics, a masonry-style portfolio, and much more.

Free Minimal Google Slides Template

You wouldn’t believe that this beautiful Google Slides template is free. Featuring a minimalist and a modern design, this template is perfect for creating a simple slideshow for a creative presentation.

Business Plan Free Google Slides Template

This free Google Slides template will allow you to create a great slideshow for a business or a corporate presentation. It features a colorful design with lots of vector elements.

Free Modern Google Slides Theme

If you’re a fan of creative illustrations, you’ll love this Google Slides template. It features a set of beautiful slides that includes lots of line-based illustrations. You can download and use it for free as well.

Aumerle Google Slides Template

Aumerle is a colorful and a quirky Google Slides template that’s filled with joy. It’s best for creating presentations for kids and children. It can be downloaded as either Google Slides or PowerPoint.

Kelsie Google Slides Template

This Google Slides template features lots of watercolor effects and styles. It includes 25 unique slides for creating presentations for creative and design related works.

Free Timeline Google Slides Template

This template is filled with timelines. You can use it for creating business projection slides and showcasing product growth. It includes 5 different slides with different timeline designs.

Science Google Slides Theme

This Google Slides theme comes with 25 unique slides filled with science-related graphics and vectors. It’s ideal for creating presentations for school projects.

5 Common Google Slides FAQs

If you’re new to Google Slides and still learning your way around the app, these frequently asked questions and answers will help you learn a few new tricks.

1. How to Install a Google Slides Theme?

Installing a Google Slides theme is quite easy. Simply open the Themes panel (you can open it by clicking on the Themes link right below the main menu). Then you’ll see a button at the very bottom of the Themes panel that says Import Theme. Click this button and switch to the Upload tab. From here you can upload your downloaded theme file.

2. How to Convert a PowerPoint File into Google Slides?

One of the best features of Google Slides is that the app is compatible with PowerPoint files. But, first, you need to convert it to Google Slides.

To get started, upload the PPTX file into your Google Drive. Then open the file with Google Slides. Now go to the File menu and choose Save as Google Slides. This converts your PPTX file into Google Slides format.

For more detailed step by step instructions, check out our guide.

3. How to Embed YouTube Videos in Google Slides?

Google Slides makes it so much easier to add videos to presentations with its ability to embed YouTube videos.

To embed videos, all you have to do is go to the Insert menu and choose Video. Then copy and paste the URL for the YouTube video you want to embed and click on the Select button. That’s it!

Use our detailed guide for visual instructions.

5. How to Print Google Slides Presentations?

The easiest way to print a Google Slides presentation is to first convert it to a PDF file and print using the PDF. This way, you can share it with anyone and easily print out using any computer.

To convert a Google Slides file to PDF, simply go to the File menu and in the Download sub-menu select PDF format.

6. How to Embed Google Slides Presentation?

If you want to show off a playable version of your presentation on your website or blog, you can use the Google Slides embed feature.

Go to File >> Publish to the Web. Switch to the Embed tab and customize the settings. Then copy the <iframe> embed code and paste it in your website. It’s as simple as that.

5 Tips for Making a Google Slides Presentation

Google Slides is one of the best apps for designing presentations. But, you must know how to use the app to make professional slideshow designs. These tips will help you get a head start.

1. Use a Template

Most Google Slides users only use the default themes that are included in the app itself. However, you can actually upload third-party Google Slides themes made by professional designers to create more unique slideshows and presentations.

Using a template is the easiest way to design an attractive slideshow that stands out from the crowd. Consider downloading a premium or a free Google Slides theme from a third-party marketplace. It will help make your presentations look different from the rest.

2. Use Master Slides

If you’ve used PowerPoint or Keynote you’d already know about the power of master slide layouts. But, most people don’t know that this feature is also available in Google Slides.

With Master Slide layouts, you can easily create new slides with pre-made layouts. Master Slide layouts are often included in Google Slides themes. Just go to the Slide menu and select Edit Master to access the master slide layouts.

3. You Can Insert Videos

Adding videos to a slideshow used to be a nightmare when you’re making presentations with PowerPoint and Keynote. Google Slides actually makes the process much easier.

You can easily add videos into a slide via the Insert menu. It lets you either upload your own videos or embed a YouTube video into the presentation. Just keep in mind that in order to play YouTube videos you’ll have to be connected to the internet.

4. Create Auto-updating Charts

Charts are one of the most effective ways of showcasing and visualizing data. However, when you’re creating charts using data from ongoing research or monthly campaigns, it becomes a tedious task to keep updating the charts over and over again.

Google Slides offers an easy fix for this problem with auto-updating charts. To do this, first, add all your data into a separate Google Sheets file. Then in Google Slides, go to Insert >> Charts >> From Sheets. Then select the Sheets file containing the data to create your chart. Now, whenever you update the data in your Sheets file it will automatically reflect in your chart.

5. Publish to the Web

Did you know that you can publish your Google Slides presentations to the web? By publishing your presentations to the web, you can make your slideshows publicly available for everyone to view, even if that person doesn’t have access to Google Sheets.

This is a great way to share your presentations and make them more accessible to everyone. Go to the File menu and select Publish to the Web.

Check out our PowerPoint presentation templates and Apple Keynote templates for more inspiration.

November 17, 2024

Performance Marketing Explained: A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide

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November 17, 2024

100+ Beautiful Geometric & Polygon Background Textures 2025

Looking for a great polygon background texture for your design? Then you’re going to love this collection of free and premium geometric and poly background textures.

Low poly and geometric backgrounds are now turning out to be one of the most popular trends in design this year. They’re being used for both website and graphic designs to give the designs a retro and a pop-art look.

Suffice to say, these textures do add an attractive, modern look to any project.

We’ve handpicked a few great free and premium poly and geometric textures you can use with your next project!

Top Pick

55+ Colorful Polygon Backgrounds

Why settle for one or ten backgrounds when you can get more than 50 backgrounds in one bundle. All the backgrounds in this pack feature stylish polygon texture designs.

The polygon backgrounds are available in 4000 x 2500 resolution and in JPG file format.

Why This Is A Top Pick

Since this all-in-one bundle comes with 56 different styles of polygon backgrounds, you’ll be able to use them to design backgrounds for everything from websites to mobile apps, posters, flyers, and much more.

Abstract Diagonal Geometric Shapes Backgrounds

Dazzle your audience with this creative geometric shapes background pack. These bright, artistically rendered patterns mix multicolored shapes and lines to create dynamic traceries, adding a pop of contemporary flair to any design. This package includes ten color variations of a unique and distinct concept, all adjustable to fit your creative vision.

Gradient Geometric Shape Composition Backgrounds

This geometric background set offers an array of high-quality, abstract vector graphics. Ideal for various design elements such as landing pages or thumbnails, the set consists of ten diverse designs. They are easily editable with software like Adobe Illustrator and come in AI, EPS, JPG, and PNG formats.

Castles – Abstract Geometric Vector Backgrounds

Castles is a versatile pack of 10 vibrantly colored, geometric-shaped backgrounds. They’re perfect to be used as headers for websites and YouTube, backgrounds for social media ads, wallpapers for mobile and desktop, or even elements of other designs. The backgrounds come in JPG, AI, and EPS formats, with dimensions of 4000 x 6000 and a resolution of 300 dpi.

Neumorphism – Geometric Ornament Background Set

This is a collection of modern backgrounds featuring stylish graphics and vibrant colors in Neomorphism style. The set includes 10 print-ready, high-quality wallpapers that are easy to edit using Photoshop. The ornate textures, crafted in JPG, PNG, and Layered PSD (Vector) format, are perfect for enhancing digital designs, video thumbnails, and more.

Hex – Geometric Spiral Backgrounds

Another unique geometric background collection of 39 flat abstract designs, each a unique hexagonal spiral pattern offered in 13 different color variations. These high-resolution (300 dpi, 4500×3000 pixels) images come with versatile usability, perfect for adding artistic flair to your web banners, social media ads, wallpapers, and more.

Cube – Seamless Geometric Backgrounds

Cube is a versatile pack comprising 52 unique backgrounds, rich in abstract cube patterns. With 52 color variations, these backgrounds span across vivid hues such as red, blue, and green to subtle shades like grey. Perfect for YT headers, social media ads, or wallpapers, their high-resolution (300 dpi) guarantees crisp, clear displays.

3D Geometric Mosaic Backgrounds

This geometric background pack is a unique collection of ten different high-resolution, print-ready 3D triangles mosaic backgrounds. The designs feature a creative, minimalist motif providing an elegant yet subtle backdrop to your artwork without unnecessary distractions. Perfect for web design, printed materials, and social media content.

Cyber Polygon Backgrounds & Textures

This is an eclectic collection of polygon backgrounds perfect for sprinkling depth and interest to your designs. High-quality at 5400 x 3600 pixels, these versatile textures can beautifully enhance websites, presentations, logos, and print materials.

Paper Polygon Abstract Backgrounds

This is a versatile polygon background pack, featuring five distinct polygon backgrounds in high resolution (6000 x 4000 pixels at 300 dpi RGB). Its paper-style designs are perfect for applications in product showcase, web and app design, presentations, and more.

5 Creative Polygon Abstract Backgrounds

A collection of versatile, customizable polygon backgrounds to enhance your products, presentations or designs. With a resolution of 6000 x 4000 PIX at 300 dpi RGB, and options to adjust hue and saturation, these backgrounds are crafted to adapt to multiple purposes including websites, PowerPoint presentations, app designs and more.

Geometric Waves Backgrounds Collection

The geometric backgrounds in this pack are perfect for designs related to technology, crypto, and startups. It’s especially great for website headers, social media covers, and app backgrounds. There are 6 different geometric backgrounds in this collection in Adobe Illustrator file format.

3D Geometric Shape Backgrounds

This is a unique collection of geometric backgrounds that feature beautiful 3D shapes. It includes 15 high-resolution backgrounds in JPG format. You can use it to make backgrounds for various print and digital designs.

Memphis Geometric Pattern Backgrounds

Memphis-style backgrounds are commonly used in packaging designs but it’s now slowly moving into the digital world. This pack includes 2 beautiful geometric backgrounds that are available in colored and B&W versions.

Digital Sea Polygon Backgrounds

A great polygon-style background for all your technology-themed designs. This background is especially suitable for cryptocurrency, SaaS, and other modern tech designs. The background comes in JPG format.

Free Abstract Geometric Background

You can download this colorful geometric background for free. It features creative abstract shapes that will look great on website headers, packaging designs, and even social media posts.

10 Gradient Circles Backgrounds

This is a collection of 10 colorful and creative backgrounds that feature gradient-colored circles. These backgrounds are great for crafting unique website headers, social media covers, mobile app backgrounds, and more.

Abstract Polygon Crystal Backgrounds

The polygon backgrounds in this bundle feature crystalized designs that are different from other backgrounds on our list. It gives the polygon shapes a glass-like look and feel. There are 14 backgrounds in the collection.

3D Blocks – Colorful Geometric Backgrounds

A set of unique geometric backgrounds featuring 3D block designs. These backgrounds have colorful designs with stylish patterns. There are 5 unique backgrounds in the bundle that are available in 5 different color styles.

Colorful Memphis Geometric Backgrounds

If you’re a fan of colorful backgrounds and Memphis design style, these geometric backgrounds are for you. It has 6 different backgrounds for you to choose from. And they come in vector formats as well as in PNG format.

Free Pastel Polygon Background

This is a free polygon background you can download and use with your personal projects. It features a simple polygon pattern with a pastel pink-colored design.

Bold Geometric Mozaic Seamless Pattern Background

Whether it’s a book cover, packaging design, or a social media post, this geometric background is perfect for all your print and digital designs. It’s a seamless pattern that can be used to craft your own backgrounds.

Pink Geometric Pattern & Background Creator

This pink geometric pattern also features a creative design that you can use to design unique backgrounds for your projects. It’s especially suitable for social media promos and cover designs.

Isometric Shapes Vector Geometric Backgrounds

The colorful backgrounds in this bundle come filled with isometric shapes. There are 24 abstract backgrounds for you to choose from and they all feature different styles of isometric shapes. The backgrounds are available in AI, EPS, and JPG formats.

Orange Teal Voronoi Backgrounds

This is a Voronoi-style background collection with geometric-like designs. These are ideal for crafting backgrounds for websites, mobile apps, and more. There are 10 different backgrounds in this pack.

Free Creative Colorful Polygon Background

You can download this polygon background for free to use in your creative designs. It features a vibrant and colorful design full of different colors. It’s especially suitable for design projects related to kids and education.

Cyberpunk 3D Mountains Geometric Backgrounds

This is a collection of computer-generated geometric backgrounds featuring 3D mountains. There are over 100 abstract backgrounds included in this pack. And they are ideal for creative design projects.

Colorful Memphis Geometric Backgrounds

Another colorful Memphis-style background with creative geometric shapes. There are 2 different backgrounds included in this pack. And it has a seamless pattern version as well. The files are available in AI, EPS, JPG, and PNG formats.

Creative Abstract Polygon Backgrounds

This background pack features unique polygon designs with colorful looks. It includes 24 different backgrounds with creative abstract 3D rendered designs. The backgrounds are available in JPG and PNG formats.

Abstract Geometric Vector Backgrounds

You can use this geometric background set to create modern and subtle designs. There are 10 different styles of geometric backgrounds included in this pack. They come in AI, EPS, and PNG file formats.

Free Polygonal Backgrounds EPS

This stylish polygonal background is also free to download. It comes in vector EPS format so you can easily edit and change its colors to your preference.

43 HD Polygon Backgrounds

Here we have a collection of 43 HD polygon backgrounds that will not just help you make an impression but also allow you to create something really fun and playful. A great option for your print designs and other brand promotion materials.

Hexa – 40 Geometric Vector Backgrounds

Our next option is a bundle of 40 unique tileable hexagon patterns that are perfect for use as Youtube header, social media ad background, mobile and desktop wallpaper, and much more. The supported applications are Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

Bright Polygon Backgrounds

Looking for a bundle of polygon backgrounds that’s as beautiful as it’s effective? Our next option has you covered. These bright polygon backgrounds are not just hard to walk by but also perfectly suited for both print and web media.

Abstact Geometric Background Designs

If you are looking for a vintage-themed option, this collection of 10 abstract geometric backgrounds is well worth checking out. This background set will fulfill almost all of your decorative needs, and serve as a great inspiration for your future artworks.

Orange & Black Geometric Backgrounds

Create mind-bending visuals with the help of this background collection, crafted in accordance with the latest design trends. Inside the package, you’ll receive fifteen orange and black 3D high-quality backgrounds that can turn out to be great assets for your upcoming projects.

Geometric Lotus Background Pattern

If you are a fan of mandala art, this item should definitely be in your designer’s toolkit. Featuring a boho-themed floral design, this background pattern comes in twelve beautiful color themes and can be customized using Illustrator 10 and above.

Free Futuristic Polygon Backgrounds

Our next option is a set of 10 free futuristic polygon backgrounds offering different color combinations and a smorgasbord of customizable features for you to play around with. One of the most unique and eye-catching options on our list!

Free Creative Geometric Backgrounds

Here we have a pack of 8 geometric patterns that will make an ideal choice for a modern project that might need a great-looking background or wallpaper. Best of all, it’s absolutely free for download. Get your hands on it today!

Cyber Polygon Backgrounds

These abstract cyber polygon backgrounds are sure to mesmerize your audience, and give your designs the attention they are worthy of. Included in the package are 12 gorgeous backgrounds with retina screen resolution that are perfect for a range of print and web projects.

Flat Polygon Backgrounds

For minimalists looking to add polygon background to their designs, this collection is the real deal. It features a range of flat polygon backgrounds in different colors, 72 DPI, and RGB color space. These textures can be used for a range of creative purposes.

14 Free Geometric Backgrounds

Next up is a bundle of geometric patterns including circles, triangles, squares, and many more shapes. These backgrounds are free for both personal and commercial use; we recommend you take these patterns for a spin especially if you don’t want to splurge on a premium product.

Dispersion Polygon Backgrounds

This collection of dispersion polygon backgrounds is a must-have in your toolkit. These modern-looking, high-resolution patterns come in 3 different colors, 3000×2000 res, 72 DPI, and RGB color space. We really like this product, and you’ll too.

43 HD Polygon Backgrounds

This is an incredibly unique pack of geometric backgrounds that you should download without having any second thoughts. The colors, size, and outline can be customized to suit your needs. Grab it right now.

24 Creative Polygon Backgrounds

This pack comes with 24 stylish polygon backgrounds that feature creative textures and patterns. They are perfect for designing backgrounds for websites, apps, presentations, and much more.

Abstract Geometric Memphis Background

This unique geometric background features a design inspired by the Memphis design trend. It has a colorful and minimalist design that makes it suitable for website backgrounds, social media designs, business cards, and more. The background is available in JPG, PNG, and customizable AI and EPS file formats.

Spiked Polygon Backgrounds

A set of unique abstract backgrounds featuring spiked polygon shapes. This collection includes 10 different backgrounds with stylish polygon designs. The backgrounds are available in 5000 x 3333 resolution JPG files.

Dark Geometric Backgrounds

This collection comes with a set of geometric backgrounds featuring a dark color theme. It includes 8 unique backgrounds with stylish designs and they are available in 7 different color variations as well.

Clean Polygon Abstract Backgrounds

The backgrounds in this pack are ideal for creating websites and using with landing pages. This bundle includes 10 minimal and clean backgrounds that feature stylish polygon shapes. The backgrounds are available in 2560 x 1440 resolution.

10 Free Geometric Backgrounds

This creative and free geometric backgrounds pack includes various styles of backgrounds featuring both geometric and polygon textures.

The bundle includes 10 different backgrounds featuring colorful textures you can use to make backgrounds with creative patterns.

All of the backgrounds in this pack are available in multiple formats, including AI, PSD, EPS, and JPG. This will allow you to easily resize and edit the backgrounds to your preference without affecting the quality.

Modern Abstract Polygon Backgrounds

A bundle of creative abstract polygon backgrounds featuring colorful designs. It includes 6 unique backgrounds with modern polygonal patterns and they are available in 6000 x 4000 resolution JPG files.

8 Free Seamless Geometric Patterns

This bundle of backgrounds includes subtle geometric patterns that are ideal for designing minimalist backgrounds for websites and apps as well as other creative projects.

3 Free 8K Geometric Backgrounds

Another set of free geometric backgrounds. The backgrounds in this pack come in 8K resolution, allowing you to use the backgrounds in both print and digital designs.

Geometric Colors Backgrounds

Featuring lots of bright and vibrant colors, these geometric backgrounds are perfect for creating designs for instantly grabbing the attention of your audience. It includes 10 unique backgrounds in 4K resolution.

Colorful Polygon Abstract Backgrounds V12

Another bundle of abstract backgrounds featuring polygon design. This collection includes 10 stylish backgrounds you can use to design website headers, app backgrounds, social media covers, and much more.

3D Polygon Backgrounds

This is a collection of modern backgrounds that feature 3D generated polygon shapes. These will fit in perfectly with your technology and startup related website backgrounds as well as futuristic poster and flyer designs.

24 Polygonal Backgrounds

Add more color to your design projects using these attractive backgrounds. It comes with 24 backgrounds featuring polygon textures and lots of colorful designs. The backgrounds are available in 4000 x 2500 resolution.

Black and Gold Polygon Patterns

This bundle of polygon textures is quite different from the rest. It comes with 44 PNG files with transparent backgrounds featuring various styles of polygon shapes. You can use these shapes to create your own unique abstract backgrounds. As a bonus, it includes 12 seamless pattern textures in JPG format as well.

12 Free Gold Polygon Backgrounds

A set of unique polygon backgrounds featuring dark and gold designs. These are ideal for creating backgrounds for luxury, fashion, and high-end brand designs.

60 Free Low Poly Background

A collection of more than 60 different low poly backgrounds. This pack includes backgrounds in various colors and patterns. You can use them for free with personal and commercial projects.

Abstract Linear Geometric Backgrounds

This is a pack of 10 beautiful abstract backgrounds with colorful geometric shapes. The attractive design of the graphics makes it perfect to be used as a background for an app landing page, video game website, and also for websites related to kids.

Abstract Flat Geometric Lightning Backgrounds

This unique background pack includes 10 different abstract graphics that feature cosmic-like designs with colorful lightning bolts. The graphics are available in 5000 X 3333 resolution JPG files.

Diamonds – Low Poly Refraction Backgrounds

The perfect background graphic for a luxury brand or a store website. This low poly backgrounds pack comes with 10 stunning graphics with a unique refraction design with diamond-like shapes to add more style to your website background.

ZigZag – Geometric Wavy Backgrounds

A bundle of 30 background textures featuring geometric wavy designs. The pack includes 6 unique backgrounds, each with 5 different color variations. Ideal for creating everything from website backgrounds to social media covers and more.

Abstract Geometric Shapes Backgrounds

This pack of geometric backgrounds comes with 10 unique graphics you can use for your website backgrounds that feature various geometric shapes. These backgrounds are perfect for creating eye-catching website headers.

Vintage Polygon Backgrounds

The backgrounds in this pack feature polygon designs with a vintage touch. The bundle includes 10 different backgrounds in 3000 X 2000 resolution PNG files. These will fit in nicely with you retro styled minimalist website designs.

Free Minimal Polygonal Texture

This is a free minimal polygonal texture you can use to craft your own pattern or background. It’s available in 2000 x 1500 resolution.

Free Geometric Background

A subtle geometric background featuring a wavy pattern. This free background is available in EPS vector file format.

Realistic Polygon Backgrounds

The polygon shapes in this backgrounds pack come with a realistic 3D-like design. The backgrounds are available in different colors and with different shapes to let you pick just the right background for your project.

Polygonal Splash Backgrounds

If you’re working on a video game or an entertainment-related website, this background pack has 10 great backgrounds with splash graphics that will fit in nicely with your website project.

10 Grungy Polygonal Backgrounds

This pack of polygon backgrounds features 10 graphics you can use for various projects. The backgrounds also feature a retro style grungy design. Which makes them more suitable for websites with vintage designs.

Free Portuguese Geometric Backgrounds

If you’d like to add an extra oomph to your almost completed project, this set of background patterns can be your best bet. It provides you with thirty-two background designs with three color themes, that can either be used singly or together for a more artistic look.

Free Geometric Backgrounds

Wanting to get your hands on a simple, sober yet effective set of background patterns? This collection of ten geometric patterns by Vinay Mittal is exactly what you’re after. The package consists of high-resolution JPG files guaranteed to add personality to your designs.

Triangulated – 200+ Abstract Backgrounds

This is a massive pack of abstract backgrounds with triangulated designs. The pack features over 200 backgrounds with various designs you can use for your website, social media, app designs, and even print projects.

Outline Polygon Connected Dots Backgrounds

The graphics in this pack are simply perfect for creating a background or a header for a modern website. The minimalist outlined design with connected dots gives these backgrounds an elegant look that will help highlight the text on your website.

Geometrical Backgrounds

A pack of geometrical backgrounds that also feature a slightly blurred effect. You can use these with your website designs, slideshows, social media covers, and much more. The pack includes 10 different backgrounds.

Polygon Abstract Backgrounds V2

This collection of polygon backgrounds feature a colorful design. The graphics were created using the Delaunay Triangulation technique. The pack includes 10 unique backgrounds.

3D Crystal White Triangle Backgrounds

The graphics in this backgrounds pack were generated using 3D designs. The attractive crystal white color use makes it even more stunning. This pack comes with 12 background images in 3K resolution.

The Speed of Light Backgrounds

The colorful backgrounds in this collection feature a design that will instantly attract anyone’s attention. This pack includes 10 unique graphics in 4500 X 3000 resolution JPG files.

Geometric Vector Textures

A heavy bundle of 40 beautiful geometric textures. The geometric shapes in this bundle are fully scalable and they can be used in any app you use, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and CorelDRAW. It also includes a PDF visual reference guide for instructions on how to use them as well.

Seamless Polygon Backgrounds Vol.2

This is a bundle of free polygon backgrounds featuring a seamless design. The pack includes 5 different textures and comes to you as a layered PSD file for easier editing.

Low Poly Landscapes Backgrounds

A collection of 20 unique low poly backgrounds. All backgrounds in this pack feature landscape designs. However, you’ll be able to edit them to use as textures as well.

Free Polygonal Low Poly Background Texture

A breathtakingly beautiful low poly background texture. You can download and use it for free with your web and print design projects.

Polygon Geometric Collection

This is a collection of fully editable and scalable geometric vectors that you can freely use to create your own unique backgrounds. The pack comes with 10 original geometric shapes.

5 High Definition Geometric Backgrounds

A set of 5 HD geometric background textures. They are all available for free in 2500 x 2500 px resolution. You can use the designs as website backgrounds, poster designs, and more.

Geometric Textured Backgrounds

These textured backgrounds are ideal for a modern and a minimal website design. This pack of geometric backgrounds includes 10 different backgrounds with 6 color variations.

Geometric Backgrounds Set

A pack of multicolor geometric background textures. This bundle features 5 unique textures. You can download and use these textures for free. However, you’ll have to include an attribution to its author.

Grunge Geometric Backgrounds

This pack of geometric backgrounds features a unique take on a grunge design. The bundle includes 7 original backgrounds and you’ll also be able to choose from 3 different color variations for each background as well.

20 Free High-Res Geometric Polygon Backgrounds

For a freebie, this bundle packs a lot of goodness. It includes 20 high-quality poly backgrounds you can use with website and graphic designs. They are available in 3000 x 2000px resolution at 300ppi.

Magic Poly Backgrounds

Another collection of poly backgrounds. You can use these for your website headers, presentations, print work, and more. This bundle includes 12 different professionally designed poly backgrounds.

4 Free High-Res Geometric Polygon Backgrounds

This set of free poly backgrounds features 4 unique textures. Despite being free, all the textures have been professionally crafted. The colorful mixed design of the textures will certainly help make your designs stand out.

Outline Geometric Polygonal Backgrounds

A collection of different poly backgrounds. This bundle includes 10 original geometric and poly backgrounds. The only downside is they are available in JPG, which means you’ll only have limited customization options. But, they come in 5000 x 3333 resolution, which is more than enough to fit any web or print design.

10 Polygon Background Banners

This is a collection of 10 different poly backgrounds, specially designed for banner and poster backgrounds. However, you’ll be able to customize them to use with website backgrounds as well. All free to download.

Geometric 117 Tileable Backgrounds

This big bundle of backgrounds includes over 100 geometric background textures. It includes 13 unique textures in 9 different color schemes. They will work well with many different types of designs.

7 Polygon Backgrounds

The poly backgrounds in this free bundle feature a design with a blurred effect. It includes 7 unique backgrounds with different colors and with the same blurred effect.

Polygon Backgrounds

A collection of stylish polygon backgrounds you can use with your web design, product designs, logos, headers, brochures, and more. This pack of textures includes 8 unique poly backgrounds.

10 Free Polygon Backgrounds

A set of 10 free poly background textures featuring a strong and a colorful design. These textures come to you in 4000 x 3000 resolution and are ideal for website headers, backgrounds, social media covers, print designs, and more.

Polygon Abstract BGs Lines Style

This bundle of poly backgrounds features 12 different textures with line-style designs. Each comes in 3000 x 2000 resolution and they will fit in nicely with both digital and print design projects.

25 Colorful Polygon Backgrounds

A collection of 25 premium-quality poly background for free. This bundle includes 25 unique backgrounds featuring different colors and styles. All textures comes to you in 1600px x 1600px resolution as well.

Black Space Polygon Backgrounds

A set of 12 poly backgrounds for using with modern graphic and website designs. This pack of textures features a space inspired dark design. Which makes them perfect for minimalist design projects.

50 Free Tessellated Designs

A yet another big collection of poly background textures. This pack includes 50 free poly background textures you can use for all kinds of design work. The designs are available in both Photoshop and Illustrator files, as well as 2560 x 1440 resolution PNG files as well.

100 Geometric Patterns

Why settle for just a couple of textures when you can get 100. This massive bundle of geometric patterns includes 100 pattern swatches, including stripes, lines, triangles, waves, zigzag, scale, grid, checker, and more patterns. Works with both Photoshop and Illustrator.

Finding the perfect background texture is a time-consuming task. Hopefully, you’ll be able to find a texture for your design from our list and save your valuable time.

November 16, 2024

95+ Best Free Lightroom Presets 2025

Adobe Lightroom is one of the most useful tools you can use to optimize your photos and graphics. Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, it has features suitable for everyone.

What makes Lightroom more powerful is its ability to extend its features with third-party presets. These presets allow you to instantly apply effects, enhance photos, adjust tone and mood, and much with just a few clicks.

Finding amazing Lightroom presets is not difficult. There are plenty available on platforms like Envato Elements. But, for those of you who are on a tight budget and can’t afford premium presets, we made this list of best free Lightroom presets you can download and use to enhance all kinds of photos.

Just looking for a stylish free Lightroom preset? No problem. Let’s dive into our collection of the best free Lightroom presets of 2021!

What Type of Free Preset Do You Need?

We’ve broken our collection down into different categories, so you can quickly find just the right preset for your project! Almost of all of these Lightroom presets are free, but at the start of each section you’ll see one or two premium ones, just so you have that option to choose as well.

Portrait Lightroom Presets
Outdoor Lightroom Presets
Landscape Lightroom Presets
Wedding Lightroom Presets
Black & White Lightroom Presets
Newborn Lightroom Presets

Portrait Lightroom Presets

Free Saturation Lightroom Preset

This free Lightroom preset is a must-have for enhancing and improving your portrait photos. It’s especially a great option for adding a professional look to your smartphone selfies before uploading them to social media.

Free Matte Effect Lightroom Preset

If you prefer matte-style effects, this free Lightroom preset is perfect for you. It features a subtle matte effect that adds a specific look to your portrait photos. You can use it with both indoor and outdoor photos.

Free Retro Effect Lightroom Preset

This preset is for transforming your portrait photos with a classic and retro look. It works with all types of portrait photos and adds a subtle matte effect as well. The preset is easily customizable to your preference.

Free Old Style Lightroom Preset

Another great free Lightroom preset for portrait photos. This free preset adds a vintage, old-school film look to your photos. It will also enhance colors and exposure to give your photos a professional look.

Free Wind Portrait Lightroom Preset

You can use this free Lightroom preset to fix and improve your outdoor portrait photos. It works especially well for photos shot in bright and sunny conditions by adjusting light and exposure to make the photo much more clearly visible.

14 Lightroom Presets for Portraits

This is a bundle of 14 unique Lightroom presets featuring optimizations and effects specifically made for improving portrait photos. Each preset works with different types of portraits including family, newborn, wedding portraits and more. The presets are non-destructive and work with Lightroom 4 and higher as well as the mobile version.

Slide Film – Free Lightroom Preset

Make your photos and selfies look much more colorful and vibrant with this free Lightroom preset. It features a simple effect that enhances colors, highlights, and exposure to make your photos look much more attractive.

Trendy – Free Lightroom Preset

This Lightroom preset is ideal for improving Instagram photos as it comes with a trendy effect for portrait photos. It creates a subtle light and airy look for your photos to give them a modern aesthetic feel.

Drama Queen – Free Portrait Lightroom Preset

This free Lightroom preset is perfect for applying a subtle effect to make your portraits look more professional. It creates a smooth and moody effect that will make your Instagram selfies and portraits stand out from the crowd.

Magic Moments – Free Lightroom Preset for Portraits

This Lightroom preset is a great choice for enhancing your family portraits and outdoor photos. It comes with a simple filter that gives a classic and nostalgic feel to your family vacation and trip photos.

Free Lightroom Presets for Portraits

This is a bundle of free Lightroom presets designed to improve portrait photos. It includes 10 different presets featuring various styles of effects, including vintage, black and white, toning, and more.

Vogue – Free Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Preset

Vogue is a stylish free Lightroom preset designed for optimizing fashion and lifestyle photos. The preset is fully compatible with both desktop and mobile versions of the Lightroom app.

Free Retro Style Lightroom Preset

Instantly give a cool retro look and feel to your photos using this creative free Lightroom preset. This effect works well with outdoor portrait and landscape photos.

Vintage Vixen – Free Portrait Lightroom Preset

This free Lightroom preset can be used to enhance and optimize your selfies and portraits. It’s especially more suitable for improving photos for social media.

Contrast Darks – Free Portrait Lightroom Preset

As the name suggests, this preset optimizes the contrast of your portrait photos to highlight the colors and brighten up the overall look. It’s ideal for optimizing outdoor portrait photos.

Wonderland Pro – Free Portrait Lightroom Preset

Wonderland Pro - Free Portrait Photoshop Action

This free preset features a unique filter that enhances exposure and lighting to bring the best features out of your portrait photos. It’s free to download and comes in Photoshop actions format too.

Hollywood – Free Portrait Lightroom Preset

This free preset allows you to enhance your portrait photos by giving them a Hollywood look. Basically, your portraits will look like a scene from a movie after using this preset.

Lips of Wine – Free Portrait Lightroom Preset

Another great free Lightroom presets that’s most suitable for improving outdoor photos. The preset adds a warm color toning effect to your photos make them look more attractive.

Fantasy – Free Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Preset

This free Lightroom preset will instantly make your ordinary portrait photos look more like a scene from a fantasy movie. It features a professional color toning effect that gives photos a fantasy-like look and feel. The preset works with both desktop and mobile Lightroom apps as well.

Orange And Teal – Free Lightroom Preset

Another professional Lightroom preset that allows you to easily enhance the colors of your photos to make them look more vibrant and beautiful. This preset is free to download and use with your personal projects.

Vibrant – Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Preset

If you’re looking for a professional Lightroom preset to enhance our portrait photos for social media, this free Lightroom preset will come in handy. It will allow you to easily optimize all kinds of portrait photos, including indoor, outdoor, and fashion photos.

Night Life – Free Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Preset

You can use this free Lightroom preset to optimize your portraits and landscape photos taken during night time. The preset will help enhance photos taken in low-light conditions while adding a warm color tone.

Film Look Free Lightroom Presets

Film look is a set of free Lightroom presets that allows you to apply a unique effect to your photos to make them look more attractive. It includes 3 different effects that are compatible with Lightroom and Photoshop Camera Raw.

20 Free Glowing Summer Lightroom Presets

This bundle of Lightroom presets includes 20 different effects for giving a stylish summer-like look and feel to your photos. All of the effects work with both JPEG and RAW file formats.

Free Lomo Effect Lightroom Presets

If you’re looking for a effect to make your photos more bright and vibrant with colors, this Lightroom preset will come in handy. The bundle includes 20 different effects with various styles. It’s perfect for portraits and landscape photos.

30 Free Duotone Lightroom Presets

The duotone effect is quite useful in giving your ordinary photos a more artistic look. This bundle comes with 30 different Lightroom presets with different styles of duotone effects you can use to enhance all kinds of photos.

Moody – Free Lightroom Preset

This is a unique low contrast Lightroom preset that allows you to instantly optimize the tone and mood of your photos with a matte effect. The effect is perfect for outdoor portrait photos.

20 Free Matte Lightroom Presets

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Silver Surfer – Free B&W Lightroom Preset

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B&W Berkeley – Vintage Lightroom Preset

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Black & White HDR Lightroom Preset

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Free Newborn Baby Lightroom Preset

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November 15, 2024

Design an Ambigram Logo With Your Name

Ambigrams are a particularly complex type of typographical art that can be read identically in different orientations. They typically take the form of a word that reads the same way upside down as it does right side up.

Today we’re going to see what’s involved in creating ambigrams and walk through creating a basic one on our own.

What Is An Ambigram?

In its most basic form, an ambigram can be a simple symbol that looks the same at two or more orientations. More complex forms involve words, groups of words or even entire sentences.

Ambigrams are one of those things that you can go your whole life without noticing and then realize that they’re everywhere once you learn to see them. For instance, ambigrams are a fairly popular logo technique and can be spotted in several famous brands. I’ve always particularly liked the AnchorBlue (the old version, they ruined it now) and Sun logos for this reason.

If you rotate either of these logos 180 degrees, they look exactly the same. It’s a pretty cool and subtle design trick that usually gets noticed mostly by designers, artists and other visually aware folks.

Here are a few logos I pulled from LogoPond that are Ambigrams.

Pop Culture

In recent years Ambigrams have gained popularity largely thanks to the success of Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code, two books by Dan Brown that were subsequently turned into Tom Hanks movies.

In this story, the “Illuminati” are a secret satanic cult with an ambigram logo that the author spends far too much time attempting to convince you is impressive.

To be fair, it is a pretty cool looking logo. I’m sure all the other secret cults are very jealous. It’s designed by John Langdon, who has an incredible collection of similar work in his portfolio.

Another sighting of Hollywood Ambigrams is on the 20th Anniversary cover of one of the best, most quotable movies of all time: Princess Bride. The duality here with both the text and the image is really great if you’re familiar with the story (this one’s designed by Cheryl Savala).

Let’s Make an Ambigram

Creating an Ambigram can be a pretty daunting task. It involves a very different kind of thinking and, if you’re designing from scratch, can require a good deal of artistic talent.

This is all well and fine, but I’m all about figuring out quick tricks and shortcuts so today we’re going to bring ambigram creation down to the skill level of mortal man.

Step 1: Plan Out The Letters

Planning out your ambigram involves figuring out your letter pairs. Since the word has to read the same whether it’s upside down or right side up, you maybe be tempted to think your individual letter designs need to be symmetrical, but this is false. Instead, each individual letter needs to serve as two letters.

For instance, if we use my name, “Josh,” then our first letter will have to look like a “J” one way and an “h” the other. To figure out your letter pairings, simply write your word forwards and backwards and see how the letters line up:

In more complex ambigrams (or those with an odd number of letters), the one-to-one ratio goes out the window. It’s often the case that an object is a single letter one way but two letters when it’s rotated. This is the case in the Illuminati example above. Here are the letter pairings for that ambigram:

The really nice part about designing your letter pairings is that you only need to create around half as many of them as there are letters because you just reuse them for the other half of the word. We’ll see how this works later.

Step 2: Choose a Font

As I said above, creating an ambigram from scratch can take a lot of work. The big shortcut is that we can just modify existing fonts and save ourselves a lot of trouble.

Since ambigrams letters have to serve multiple purposes, it’s often the case that more ornate letter forms work the best. Ornate fonts tend to have lots of superfluous detail that isn’t true to the way you would actually write the letter, while still having easily identifiable letters. When you’re working with the kind of duality that ambigrams involve, having room to turn leftover pieces into flourishes and swooshes makes your job much easier.

With this in mind, old english or cursive letters make for prime candidates. A quick browse through my fonts folder revealed a number of solid potential starting points.

There’s no reason you can’t pick any font that you want, but one trick is to look for similarities in the letter pairings that you require. For instance, if the “O” and “S” have particularly similar shapes in a given font, it might be a perfect candidate for our “Josh” ambigram.

Step 3: Create Your Letter Pairs

From here it’s time to actually start forming your ambigram. To do this, it’s best to open up Adobe Illustrator. Because Illustrator is a vector editing application, it gives you more freedom than Photoshop for playing with your letter forms. Type out your word, convert the text to outlines and start reshaping!

My workflow is pretty simple to follow. First I looked at the “j” and “h” and decided it would be easier to start with the latter. Next, I turned the “h” upside down. From here I already have an upside “h”, which is the goal, I then needed to make it look like a “j” without compromising the integrity of the “h” shape too much.

This takes lots of experimentation. It’s definitely a good idea to keep a couple of different versions just for options. Here you can see the process I went through from beginning to end:

Next, it’s time to tackle the “o” and “s”. To do this, I started with the “o”, cut out a chunk so the loop doesn’t close, and added in the top of the “s” with the following result:

All Done!

As I mentioned before, since each letter counts for two, we only need to really build two letters, then we can copy and past those two items and rotate them for the second half of our word. So my “j” and “o” rotated become the “s” and “h”.

Again, you’ll probably end up with a few different ideas for your finished product, I certainly did. This is great though and gives you options for different uses. For instance, here’s a simple version followed by a fancier version that wraps the whole thing in an oval for a more logo-friendly appearance.

Want to see it in action? Click here for the interactive version.

Ambigram Generators

I strongly recommend that you attempt to create one or two ambigrams on your own, but if you want to cheat, there are a few ambigram generators online such as the one at Flipscript.com. Tools like this one can also be a good reference in case you need a hint for how two letter shapes might be paired together.

Conclusion

Ambigrams aren’t going to change the way you design forever, but they are a really fun way to add an unexpected and often hidden twist to a logo. They’re actually a blast to think about and build if you’re a design nerd so you should definitely give it a shot.

Follow the steps above and create your own ambigram, then leave a link below so we can check it out!

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