Type #276
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.

Source Atle Mo

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White Sand #19
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.

Source Atle Mo

Background pattern 4 #223
 Noise  CC 0

A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a mosaic in paint.net. The starting point for the mosaic was a picture of some prawns!

Source Firkin

Background pattern 226 (colour 3) #2318
 Colorful  CC 0

A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Teal Circle Pattern Scrapbook Paper #144
 Noise  CC BY-SA 3.0

Used the 6th circle pattern designed by Viscious-Speed to create a print that can be used for card making or scrapbooking. Save as a PDF file for the best printing option.

Source Lovinglf

Colourful background #2007
 Colorful  CC 0

Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic

Source Firkin

Background pattern 314 (colour 4) #1836
 Blue  CC 0

The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Colorful Floral Background 2@2X #488
 Dark  CC 0

Colorful Floral Background 2

Source GDJ

Diamond pattern (colour 3) #2283
 Green  CC 0

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 0

A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Zig Zag@2X #329
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

So tiny, just 7 by 7 pixels – but still so sexy. Ah yes.

Source Dmitriy Prodchenko

Part of Bayeux Tapestry 2 #2451
 Noise  CC 0

From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.

Source Firkin

"Glossy Pink Fur", Pink Background Pattern #1235
 Pink  CC BY-SA 3.0

Here's a quite bright pink background pattern for use on websites. It doesn't look like a real fur, but it definitely resembles one.

Source V. Hartikainen