Micro Carbon #7
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
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Background pattern 202 (colour 2) #2489
Green CC 0Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Tessellation 16 (colour 3) #2213
Green CC 0The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Diamond pattern #2285
Brown CC 0From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Carbon Fiber #3
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
White Wall 2 #1020
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0A new one called white wall, not by me this time.
Source Yuji Honzawa
Maze-seamless pattern #2555
Grid CC 0This is the remix of an Openclipart clipart called "Maze" uploaded by "any_ono_mous".Thanks.This is a seamless pattern of a maze.
Source Yamachem
P5@2X #1114
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper
Corrugation@2X #766
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Little Triangles@2X #688
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The basic shapes never get old. Simple triangle pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 9 (B&W) #212
Dark CC 0Black & white version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Dark Wall #817
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
Decorative divider 193 #2502
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin
Floral pattern 11 #1770
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
White Wave #681
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
Cross frame #1718
Dark CC 0Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by starchim01
Source Firkin
Prismatic Isometric Cube Extra Pattern No Background #405
Light CC 0Prismatic Isometric Cube Extra Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Dark #1258
Paper CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Fence panel #2577
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Horses pattern #1883
Unknow CC 0Use shift+alt+i on the selected rectangle in Inkscape to get the tile this is based on
Source Firkin
Elastoplast #282
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A fun-looking elastoplast/band-aid pattern. A hint of orange tone in this one.
Source Josh Green