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Adobe Illustrator Swatches and Patterns Swatches
Within the Adobe Illustrator Swatches and Patterns page below you'll find high quality commercial and free Adobe Illustrator swatches, gradient swatches, vector patterns, seamless vector patterns, and more. Many of the freebies include accompanying Illustrator tutorials and tips, along with other commercial or free Illustrator brushes, symbols, shapes, vector images, and more. All listings below come highly recommended, and I've personally tried and used quite a few of the Illustrator swatches and patterns.
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Commercial and Free Adobe Illustrator Patterns, Pattern Swatches
Below are links to high quality, commercial and free Illustrator pattern swatches. For entire Web sites or Web site sections devoted to Illustrator swatches and patterns, see below, Web Sites, Web Site Sections with Illustrator Swatches and Patterns Swatches.
For commercial and free Illustrator pattern brushes, see Commercial and Free Adobe Illustrator Brushes, Brush Libraries.
- 5 Free Seamless Vector Patterns
5 free and beautiful seamless vector patterns - squares, circles, diamonds, more. Formats: AI, EPS, SVG, PNG. [Free Illustrator Patterns dated 03/22/2007, by bittbox.] - 54 Pattern Swatches
54 seamless vector pattern swatches here for Adobe Illustrator. [Free Illustrator Patterns dated 01/01/2008, by Jennifer Willis, for Adobe Illustrator Exchange: Illustrator Swatches.] - Animal-print Patterns
10 fabulous seamless animal print patterns for Adobe Illustrator. Includes tutorial on how to create seamless custom patterns, too. [Free Illustrator Patterns and tutorial by Adobe Illustrator Tips, UK.] - Batik is Beautiful - Free Vector Swatches UPDATED
Several beautifully done seamless batik vector patterns in various color schemes. Free. [Free Illustrator Patterns dated 06/05/2008, by VQ, ClickPopMedia.] - Building Textures
“Here are eight seamless textures that can be used when producing architectural illustrations. They were produced in Illustrator 10 on a PC but may work with other versions and platforms.” [Free Illustrator Patterns dated 08/14/2006, by David Birch, for Adobe Illustrator Exchange: Illustrator Swatches.] - CADPatterns
134 seamless vector swatch patterns include: stipples, crosshatches, bricks, wood grains, stone, tile, building materials, and much more. For Adobe Illustrator 10, CS, CS2 and CS3 - Mac and Windows. [Commercial Illustrator Patterns by Hot Door.] - Free Seamless Vector Perforated Metal Pattern
Well done helpful and free Illustrator seamless pattern. Formats: AI, EPS, SVG, PNG.[Free Illustrator Patterns dated 03/22/2007, by bittbox.] - Halftone Madness
8 halftone free vector patterns here. “Use them for masks, grunge work, or vectorized halftone saturation.” [Free Illustrator Patterns dated 05/31/2007, by ixadesign, for Vecteezy.] - Seamless Camouflage Patterns (or Brushes!) - Bear Edition
25 free vector camouflage swatch patterns. Formats include EPS and Adobe CS. [Free Illustrator Patterns by lostfayth (Jennifer Willis), CreateSk8.] - Seamless Vector Patterns and Backgrounds
Lightbox by WebsiteTips.com's editor of the best, high quality, low-cost, and favorite seamless vector patterns and backgrounds via iStockphoto. [Lightbox collection by Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns, via iStockphoto.] - Swatch Patterns
Herringbone patterns, diamond patterns, weave/woven design patterns, dots, squares, much more. 20 free vector patterns here. [Free Illustrator Patterns dated 03/10/2008, by mmolai, for Vecteezy.] - Waves And Ridges Illustrator Patterns
Collection of 6 free curved and angled patterns: curved and sharp flat b&w, curved and sharp shaded, and curved and sharp windowed. [Free Illustrator Patterns dated 05/01/2008, by Chris Vasquez, for FreeVectors.net.] - Vintage Vector Patterns
“16 Vintage vector wallpaper patterns: old school paisley type flourishes, repeating patterns, some early Americana, some European in origin. Great for backgrounds or blended with textures.” [Free Illustrator Patterns dated 05/01/2008, by KeepDesigning, for FreeVectors.net.]
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Commercial and Free Adobe Illustrator Swatches and Gradient Swatches
Below are links to high quality, commercial and free Illustrator swatches and gradient swatches.
- Muted Tones
“A sophisticated set of colors that stand out, but maintain a quietness.” Very nice colors here. EPS format, uses CMYK values, and created in Illustrator CS2. [Free Illustrator swatches dated 07/03/2008, by Degelrae (Rachel Degelbeck), for Adobe Illustrator Exchange: Illustrator Swatches.] - Pantone Textile 1, 2, 3
All 3 free swatches of a 3-part series of Pantone textile (paper) color swatches. For Illustrator CS3, CS, 10.x. [Free Illustrator swatches dated 07/03/2008, by jmunsterman, for Adobe Illustrator Exchange: Illustrator Swatches.] - Swatches Pack 1: 1600 Mixed Gradient Swatches
“1600+ Super colorful gradient swatches. Includes basic gradient swatches, inverted color gradient swatches, random color swatches, extreme gradients swatches, smooth gradient swatches, interweave gradients, satin like gradients, subtle gradients, beam gradients, line gradients and many more.” Several other gradient swatch sets available here, too. Quite reasonably priced. For Illustrator CS3, CS2, CS, 10, and for Windows and Mac. [Illustrator gradient swatches by Graphicxtras.com.] - Swatches Pack 2: 7600 Gradient Swatches
“7600 Super colorful gradient swatches. Includes basic gradients swatches, randomized color gradient swatches, faded swatches, lined gradients swatches, banded swatches, blurry swatches, columnar gradients, sharp gradient swatches, extreme gradients, faded swatches, black white swatches and many more for Illustrator®.” Several other gradient swatch sets available here, too. Quite reasonably priced. For Illustrator CS3, CS2, CS, 10, and for Windows and Mac. [Illustrator gradient swatches by Graphicxtras.com.] - Swatches Pack 3: 1100 Gradient Swatches
“1100 Super colorful gradient swatches includes basic gradient swatches, random color swatches, line themed swatches, curtain swatches, sharp gradient swatches, columnar gradients, crunched gradients, sharp gradients, blurry gradients, zoom gradients, alternating gradients and more Illustrator swatches.” Several other gradient swatch sets available here, too. Quite reasonably priced. For Illustrator CS3, CS2, CS, 10, and for Windows and Mac. [Illustrator gradient swatches by Graphicxtras.com.] - Swatches Pack 4: 1100 Gradient Swatches
“200 Mixed colorful gradient swatches for Illustrator. Includes basic gradients, colorful gradients, sharp gradients, blurry gradients, dark gradients, line gradients, unusual and more Illustrator swatches.” Several other gradient swatch sets available here, too. Quite reasonably priced. For Illustrator CS3, CS2, CS, 10, and for Windows and Mac. [Illustrator gradient swatches by Graphicxtras.com.] - Web 2.0 Gradient Swatches for Illustrator
Very nice free gradient swatches for Illustrator with that Web 2.0 reflections look. 130 free gradient swatches for Adobe Illustrator CS3. [Free Illustrator gradient swatches dated 10/15/2007, by Deziner Folio.]
Web Sites, Web Site Sections with Illustrator Swatches and Patterns Swatches
- Eastern Pattern Sets
12+ beautiful, unique, high quality vector pattern sets here. Description from the site: “one of a kind hand drawn Indian, Eastern, Asian and Oriental vector design sets. Detailed borders, patterns and clip designs with Eastern Mehndi influence. All Hand drawn and vectorized. Editable with all vector programs also comes with High Res Jpeg images. These designs can be used for card decoration, on textile prints, albums, on any product to make your design stands out with a whimsical Oriental taste.” Very reasonably priced. [Web site section by Mujka.] - EPS Vector Patterns and AI Vector Patterns
Sections of free vector patterns by contributors. Quite a variety here to check out. New patterns added regularly, too. [Web site sections part of Vecteezy.] - Free Seamless Patterns & Illustrator Swatches
Web site section devoted to free seamless patterns and Illustrator swatches. Includes: Free Illustrator Patterns - Japanese Bunnies; Free Elegant Curls Pattern Pack for Illustrator & Photoshop; Seamless Pattern Swatches (or Brushes) for Illustrator & Image pack for Photoshop; and more. [Web site section by Jennifer Willis, Createsk8.] - Free Stuff
Section of freebies that includes at least 6 free seamless vector patterns in EPS format. Floral patterns, swirls and curls patterns, abstract design patterns, more. [Web site section by Mujka.] - Illustrator Swatches
Commercial and free Illustrator swatches by contributors to Adobe Exchange. Color swatches, gradient swatches, and patterns swatches. View by most recent, most popular, highest rated, and more. Lots of variety here. [Web site section part of: Adobe Exchange.] - Illustrator Swatches: Gradients and Patterns
Quite a few choices of Illustrator gradient swatches sets, pattern swatches sets, and a combination package set, too. Literally thousands of gradient swatches and pattern swatches here. Very reasonably priced. For Illustrator CS3, CS2, CS, 10, and for Windows and Mac. [Web site section part of: Graphicxtras.com.] - Patterns
Section of high quality patterns, pattern sets in EPS, JPG, and includes swatch libraries. Quite a variety of patterns here and very reasonably priced. The EPS files are editable with Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, programs that can edit EPS files. [Web site section by Mujka.] - Seamless Patterns
Search results via iStockphoto with over 4,000 professional vector seamless patterns. Incredibly huge variety of styles, colors, patterns here. Very reasonably priced. [Web site search results via iStockphoto.] - Swatches Patterns for Adobe illustrator
“Onepattern designs, produces and distributes high quality motif patterns for many purposes. From slick and elegant blog or website background to sophisticated and complex vector swatches motif for prepress, Onepattern provides a large sample of motif patterns sets that will suit all creative tastes, styles and trends.” [Web site: onepattern.] - Vector Patterns
At least 23 vector patterns and more added regularly - batik, waves and patterns, floral vector packs, ornaments, border patterns, diamonds, vintage designs, and more. [Web site section part of: FreeVectors.net.]
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