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
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Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 3 No Background@2X #781
Light CC 0Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Leafy pattern 12 #1764
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 201 (colour) #2497
Grid CC 0A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Soft Pad@2X #614
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Green Fibers@2X #92
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Background pattern 255 (colour) #2141
Brown CC 0Colour version of the original pattern.
Source Firkin
Rough Diagonal@2X #692
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
Background pattern 255 (colour 2) #2140
Brown CC 0Colour version of the original pattern.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Variation 2 With Background@2X #472
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Pattern Variation 2 With Background
Source GDJ
Decorative divider 189 #2518
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
Nami@2X #576
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Not sure if this is related to the Nami you get in Google image search, but hey, it’s nice!
Source Dertig Media
Flourish decorative divider #1732
Dark CC 0Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
Colourful background #2008
Colorful CC 0Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 216 #2243
Dark CC 0Remixed from a raster on Pixabay that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
Source Firkin
Floral pattern 17 (colour) #1724
Orange CC 0Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by mdmelo.
Source Firkin
Wood Background Pattern #882
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.
Source V. Hartikainen
Clean gray paper #859
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0On a large canvas you can see it tiling, but used on smaller areas, it’s beautiful.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Cubes@2X #134
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This reminds me of Game Cube. A nice light 3D cube pattern.
Source Sander Ottens
Axiom Pattern@2X #331
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Not even 1kb, but very stylish. Gray thin lines.
Source Struck Axiom
Diamond pattern 2 #2268
Red CC 0From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 6 No Background@2X #546
Dark CC 0Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 6 No Background
Source GDJ
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern No Background #411
Light CC 0Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Green Subtle Web Texture #1334
Green CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless green background texture. The image is distributed under a Creative Commons License (like all of the images here).
Source V. Hartikainen