Retina Dust #915
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
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Gold Scale #284
Light CC BY-SA 3.0More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
Background pattern 246 (colour 2) #2185
Green CC 0This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
White Brushed@2X #1184
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Brushed aluminum, in a bright gray version. Lovely 2X as well.
Source Andre Schouten
Diamond pattern 2 (colour 2) #2267
Colorful CC 0From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Hexagonalist Pattern No Background #390
Light CC 0Prismatic Hexagonalist Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Seamless tile 4 #1812
Red CC 0Not strictly seamless in that opposite edges are not identical. But they do marry up to make an interesting pattern
Source Firkin
Wallpaper Tile 13 #240
Light CC 0An abstract Background pattern of purple twisty patterns.
Source TikiGiki
Tex2res2 #719
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Number 2 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Norwegian Rose@2X #858
Light CC BY-SA 3.0I’m not going to lie – if you submit something with the words Norwegian and Rose in it, it’s likely I’ll publish it.
Source Fredrik Scheide
Background pattern 250 (colour 3) #2169
Colorful CC 0To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
tortoise in tortoiseshell #2537
Grid CC 0The image depicts a seamless pattern of a tortoise in tortoiseshell (hexagon).
Source Yamachem
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
Yellow Wood Planks Background #876
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0This background pattern contains a texture of yellow wood planks. I think it looks quite original.
Source V. Hartikainen
Large Leather #649
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0More leather, and this time it’s bigger! You know, in case you need that.
Source Elemis
Glossy Groove Stripe Pattern (Pale Orange) #967
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A pale orange background pattern with glossy groove stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 255 (colour) #2141
Brown CC 0Colour version of the original pattern.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 223 (colour 6) #2348
Yellow CC 0Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Geometric pattern #2002
Dark CC 0A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Type@2X #277
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Checkered Pattern@2X #323
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Simple gray checkered lines, in light tones.
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Blue Gray Fabric Like Texture #934
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A blue gray fabric-like texture for websites. An yet another fabric-like texture. It has subtle vertical and diagonal stripes to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Tessellation 16 (colour 5) #2211
Yellow CC 0The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
White Texture@2X #132
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry