To celebrate the new feature, we need some sparkling diamonds.
Source Atle Mo
Nasty or not, it’s a nice pattern that tiles. Like they all do.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Recreated 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
Background formed from the iconic plastic construction bricks that gave me endless hours of fun when I was a lad.
Source Firkin
First 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
From a drawing in 'A Life Interest', Mrs Alexander, 1888.
Source Firkin
Heavily remixed from a drawing in 'Barbara Leybourne; a story of eighty years ago', Sarah Hamer, 1889.
Source Firkin
Continuing the geometric trend, here is one more.
Source Mike Warner
Just a nice looking textured pattern with faded blue stripes. Well, that's it for today... one background a day, as usual.
Source V. Hartikainen
Stefan is hard at work, this time with a funky pattern of squares.
Source Stefan Aleksić
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.
Source Atle Mo
We have some linen patterns here, but none that are stressed. Until now.
Source Jordan Pittman
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
Remixed from a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a drawing seen in 'City of Liverpool', James Picton, 1883.
Source Firkin
Here I have tried to create something that would look like maple wood. Not sure how well it's turned out, but at least it looks like wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Picturesque New Guinea', J Lindt, 1887.
Source Firkin
Seamless SVG vector and JPG backgrounds with faded diagonal stripes. The colors are editable.
Source V. Hartikainen