paper texture

Adobe Stock lists 6,640,709 illustrations for “paper texture” as of 2026-08-28. The other tracked catalogues read 639,954 on iStock and 136,562 on Shutterstock. That is a 49× spread between the largest and smallest, so this phrase is stocked far more heavily on Adobe Stock than across the marketplaces evenly. For scale, that is within the most heavily stocked quarter of the 4,009 phrases with a supply reading, which begins at 420,000.

Adobe Stock flags 11% of its 6,640,709 illustrations for this phrase as AI-generated. That is well under the 76% median across the 1,383 phrases where Adobe publishes the flag — supply here is still mostly not generated. The flag is Adobe's own declaration on the asset, not an inference of ours, and it covers Adobe's catalogue only.

In the week of 2026-08-16, Google Trends put “paper texture” at 47% of its own 12-month peak — mid-range for its own year. That index is rescaled per phrase, so every tracked phrase reaches 100 at its own busiest week; it says where this phrase sits in its own year, not how its search volume compares with another phrase's.

Sellers who publish for this phrase also tag their files “paper texture png”, “paper texture 4k”, “news paper texture”, “paper texture background”, “paper texture overlay”, “paper texture procreate”, and 34 more — harvested from the live listings rather than suggested, so they describe how the subject is actually being framed for buyers. The phrase sits in the patterns category.