Worn Pulp

Give Your Digital Art a Physical Past

What you see before you represents months spent digging through a dozen used bookstores, flipping through cracked spines, sun-faded covers, laminate peeling at the corners, and price stickers layered over decades of re-sale. I hunted down the most beautifully abused paperbacks I could find.

Special thanks to Goodwill, who unknowingly contributed a heroic portion of this collection.

Then I brought them back to my studio and scanned everything myself at extremely high resolution.

Who is this for?

TTRPG creators, indie publishers, zine makers, poster designers, cover artists, and anyone else obsessed with analog destruction showing up in design. If you want your work to feel like it was pulled from the discard bin at the local library, this is your kit.

Paperback Distress Kit Comes with:

• 4 High-Resolution PSD Mockups – Drop your cover directly into layered files built from real, distressed books and tweak to your heart's content.

• 8 Ultra High-Resolution Cover Texture Scans – Creases, scratches, laminate cracks, sun bleaching all preserved in microscopic detail.

• 4 High-Resolution Paper Texture Scans – True pulp grain and aged fibers, perfect for interiors and backgrounds.

• 6 Custom Texture Brushes – Heavy, medium, fine, sparse, light, and soft, giving you tactile control over how worn you want to go.

• 80+ Authentic Used Bookstore Stickers – Price tags, stamps, residue marks, handwritten labels — scanned directly from real books found across the country.