Texture Archives

Free / no Copyright / CC-BY

Here are some links to archives which offer textures "without any copyright", compatible CC licenses or public domain. Attention: If you want to extend this list, note that "free" or the lack of any copyright message doesn't mean anything. To be public domain or "without any copyright", it must be explicitly noted.

• Flickr - mixed CC licenses
• OpenGameArt (3400+) - various open source licenses
• LuGher Texture (3400+) - free to use in personal and commercial projects
• Accustudio (~1000) - free of any copyrights
• The Texture Barn (~500) - "Royalty-free textures for computer graphics, illustration, game design and everything else"
• Ben Cloward (~300) - free but author would like to be notified where it is used

Mostly free with own license

The most and the biggest free texture archives offer the textures free for any purpose, but it is not allowed to redistribute them as a texture pack. So, in all cases. As this licenses for textures from these archives are incompatible with the CC-by license, we can't include any textures from these sources:

• CG Textures (30000+)
• Image After (~10000)
• Mayang's Free Texture Library (3800+) - max. 30 textures may be used
• 2Textured (2700+) - "The textures may be used freely in commercial or personal works but reselling or redistributing of the textures on other texture sites is forbidden"
• textures.pedramk.com (~1000)
• Freetextures.org (~1000)
• Texturez (800+)
• Free Texture Site (600+)
• Back of Beyond (~500)
• Zen Textures (450+)
• Noctua Graphics (400+)
• Texture King (300+)