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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Floral pattern 7 (colour 4) #2288
Green CC 0Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Geometric pattern #2005
Grid CC 0A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Stitched Wool@2X #844
Light CC BY-SA 3.0I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Background pattern 24 #198
Dark CC 0The starting point for this was a texture drawn with the 'Radial Colors' plug-in in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Dark & Gray #1299
Stone CC 0ZeroCC tileable stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Ravenna@2X #355
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
Source Sentel
Background pattern blue #1949
Blue CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Paven@2X #297
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
"Pink Bump Dots", Background Tile #1234
Pink CC BY-SA 3.0A free background tile with a pattern of pink bump dots. This background tile is sweet! Moreover, it's designed for use as website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 6 No Background@2X #546
Dark CC 0Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 6 No Background
Source GDJ
Black Thread@2X #600
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Geometric lines are always hot, and this pattern is no exception.
Source Listvetra
"Black Metal Grid", Seamless Background Pattern #1080
Metal CC BY-SA 3.0A free seamless background pattern for use on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Graphene pattern 1 #2235
Dark CC 0Different from the original in being a simple tile stored as a pattern definition, rather than numerous repeated objects. Hence easy and quick to give this pattern to objects of different shapes. To get the tile in Inkscape, select the rectangle and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
BO Play@2X #662
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Inspired by the B&O Play, I had to make this pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Retina Dust@2X #916
Light CC BY-SA 3.0First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
Repeating Stone-Like Background (Dark Brown) #1056
Stone CC BY-SA 3.0A repeating background with dark brown stone-like texture and abstract pattern that looks like tree trunks.
Source V. Hartikainen
Pink Clouds Background #1230
Pink CC BY-SA 3.0Actually, there's no clouds in it, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4 #271
Noise CC 0Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4
Source GDJ
Subtle Dots@2X #922
Light CC BY-SA 3.0As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 8 No Background@2X #550
Dark CC 0Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 8 No Background
Source GDJ
Wave Grind #1132
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
Background pattern 256 (colour) #2138
Red CC 0Remixed from a design on Pixabay. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Old Brown Leather, Seamless Texture #1117
Leather CC BY-SA 3.0This texture looks like old leather. It should look great as a background on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 252 (colour 3) #2160
Green CC 0Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin