Slate Seamless Textures

Slate Seamless Textures is a set of 20 tiling surface textures drawn in the realistic style, where a five-stop specular gradient runs down a brushed metal face with rivets at the corners. It contains brick, stone and tile surfaces, wood, fabric and metal, dirt, grass and plaster and a matching height map for every surface.

These are vector-drawn surfaces, not photographic PBR scans, and it is worth being plain about that: they will not pass for a photoreal material under a physical camera. What they are good for is stylised work, 2D backgrounds, UI fills and anything that has to stay readable when it is scaled or recoloured — cases where a photo scan is the wrong tool anyway.

The brush texture is a 3px line pattern rather than real noise: noise triples the PNG weight for a texture nobody can see at 1x. The shadow is layered rather than blurred so it holds up at 4x.

Inside that style this is the Slate reading of it: a dark interface on a neutral slate palette with warm gold accents, built around a single bordered frame, square-cornered buttons at 128x40, banded bars divided into 10 segments, and outlined icons on a 24px grid. Those measurements are why two families can share an art style without being interchangeable: the style decides how an edge is drawn, the numbers decide what the interface is for.

Every motif that crosses an edge is drawn again on the opposite edge, which is the whole difficulty of a tiling texture and the thing that is easy to get subtly wrong. Each surface ships with a greyscale height companion so a shader can derive a normal map at whatever strength the scene wants, rather than baking one in at a strength that suits nothing.

Every sprite ships as an editable SVG and as transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x, so you can drop the PNGs straight into an engine or open the vector and change a colour. Built to the same measurements as the rest of the Slate family, which means this kit and the Slate panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for realistic and simulation interfaces.

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