Retro Design Elements: Fonts, Photoshop Brushes, Patterns

Last time, we shared with you the best retro web designs from around the web to give you inspiration just in case you are doing similar projects. As a follow through to our previous post, we decided to come up with a list of retro design resources that you can use in designing vintage or retro-themed websites, desktop wallpapers, posters, e-cards, print ads, web banners and many more. This list is divided into three parts. The first part is composed of beautiful retro fonts while the second part is composed of hundreds of high-resolution and quality Photoshop brushes that you can use to create vintage look in your design. The third and the last part are sets of patterns featuring retro or vintage styles.

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DISCLAIMER: We are not releasing these resources as freebies in this site. If you are interested to download or use any of these resource, just click on the link provided just below each preview image. As in any other free stuffs from the Internet, please make sure you read and follow the terms and conditions set by the respective authors first before deciding to use them, both for personal and commercial purposes.

RETRO FONTS

Retro Fonts 01: Avante Go
Inspired by Avant Garde type, this set features types that are slanted to the left. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

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Retro Fonts 02: Gabriel 8008 Typewriter
Enjoy the groovy feel of an early 80’s typewriter right on your own computer. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

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Retro Fonts 03: LT Oksana
This font contains 234 characters in 10 ranges, so all punctuation, accents, and numbers are included +more. Included in the download folder are True type Fonts: LT Oksana Regular, LT Oksana Regular Italic, LT Oksana Light, LT Oksana Light Italic, LT Oksana Medium Bold, LT Oksana Medium Bold Italic. Free for personal use while commercial use requires a PayPal donation.

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Retro Fonts 04: Summertime
Include four font types that you can use for free.

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Retro Fonts 05: Star Avenue
This font is free for personal use only.

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Retro Fonts 06: Jacked

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Retro Fonts 07: Multistrokes

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Retro Fonts 08: Velvenda

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Retro Fonts 09: SEGA Logo Font

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Retro Fonts 10: Retro Disco

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Retro Fonts 11: Wonderful World Retro Font

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RETRO DESIGN PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES

Retro Design Photoshop Brushes 01-Antique Furniture and Stuffs
a set of Photoshop brushes composed of 20 antique furniture images that you can use for free. Images of antique furniture included in this set are pictures of an old chest, a megaphone, a wooden fruit crate, a vinateg chair, a dresser and many more. This set of antique furniture Photoshop brushes consists 20 high-resolution brushes that are compatible with any CS version of Photoshop. The resolution of each Photoshop brush is also set at around 2500 pixels.

RETRO DESIGN PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES

Retro Design Photoshop Brushes 02-Retro Paisley
This set consists ultra high-resolution Photoshop brushes featuring paisley design, retro circles, swirls, stars, etc. These brushes were created using vector images, making these paisley design Photoshop brushes suitable even for high-resolution or large-printing designs. Created in Photoshop CS2, there are a total of 16 retro-style paisley brushes in this set. These paisley design Photoshop brushes have high resolution with size of each brush set at around 2500 pixels.

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Retro Design Photoshop Brushes 03-Retro I
This set contains 10 brushes for Photoshop CS3. The PSD file is also included for use just in case you need to use them in previous versions, or other applications. These brushes are very high-resoultion retro brushes.

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Retro Design Photoshop Brushes 4-Retro Revival 4
This set includes 11 high quality retro brushes made with Adobe PhotoShop CS2. The brushes taken from vector designs by the author.

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Retro Design Photoshop Brushes 05-Retro Brush Pack
Originally made for PSP but here is a version created in CS3 composed of different images of people from the past era. This should work with any CS version of Photoshop.

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Retro Design Photoshop Brushes 06-Retro Party
A set of Photoshop brushes composed of retro images that you can use for creating invitation cards, posters, postcards for retro-themed parties.

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Retro Design Photoshop Brushes 07-Retro Circle Collage Brushes
This set contains 4 large retro collage brushes for Photoshop. Resolution of each brush is set at over 2300 pixels.

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Retro Design Photoshop Brushes 08-Stalwart Design Brushes
This set of retro design Photoshop brushes contains 5 large open circle design brushes and a variety of geometric shapes. Brushes were made in Illustrator and Photoshop CS4.

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Retro Design Photoshop Brushes 09-Retro Brushes by Priesteres Stock on Deviantart
A set of brushes composed of retro design elements created in Photoshop CS2. Please read the rather very long list of rules set by the author before using the brush set.

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Retro Design Photoshop Brushes 10-Retro Leftovers
This brush set was created with Photoshop CS3 Extended. Image pack is also included in case you have a previous Photoshop version and these brushes do not work for you or if you use a different software.

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If these brushes are not enough, then checkout more vintage brush sets from our earlier post.
Also, checkout the RETRO BRUSHES section of Photoshop Free Brushes

RETRO PATTERNS

Retro patterns 01-Retro Pattern Set Vol.1

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