This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
Based on an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by devanath
Source Firkin
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
No, not the band but the pattern. Simple squares in gray tones, of course.
Source Atle Mo
Dark wooden pattern, given the subtle treatment. based on texture from Cloaks.
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor
A seamless pattern based on a tile that can be achieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'light rays' rendering in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.
Source Tony Kinard
Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
Geometric triangles seem to be quite hot these days.
Source Pixeden
A light gray background pattern with seamless fabric-like texture and almost unnoticeable stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
Source Firkin
Super simple but very nice indeed. Gray with vertical stripes.
Source Merrin Macleod
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
8 by 8 pixels, and just what the title says.
Source pixilated