Free For All: Adobe Illustrator Edition

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Seamless Illustrator Pattern Swatches
Seamless pattern swatches are highly useful for projects in just about every design discipline. With them you can fill large paths or surface 3D objects instantly.
Once you’ve downloaded the files below, don’t open the .AI files directly. Instead, start Illustrator and open its Swatches panel. From the flyout menu in the top-right corner of the Swatches panel, choose Open Swatch Library > Other Library. Then select and load one of the files below in the resulting Select Library to Open dialog box. You’ll then see the new pattern swatch library as its own panel. Finally, select a path and use the pattern swatch as a fill.
54 Pattern Swatches:

Animal-Print Patterns:

Batik is Beautiful Swatches:

Building Textures for Architectural Illustration:

Escher Lizard Patterns:

Iris Pattern Pack:

52 Halftone Patterns:

50 Argyle Pattern Swatches:

6 Waves and Ridges:

20 Plaid Patterns:

What can I find free for you? Want more free fonts? More Photoshop brushes? How about more online applications that do this or that for free? Tell me in the comments what you’d like to see in future installments of Free for All, and I’ll do my best bloodhound impression to track it down for you.
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