This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Dark squares with some virus-looking dots in the grid.
Source Hugo Loning
The first pattern on here using opacity. Try it on a site with a colored background, or even using mixed colors.
Source Nathan Spady
Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Just what the name says, paper fibers. Always good to have.
Source Heliodor jalba
Geometric triangles seem to be quite hot these days.
Source Pixeden
Zero CC asphalt, pavement, texture, photographed and made by me. CC0 WARNING I FOUND A SEAM ON THIS TEXTURE
Source Sojan Janso
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 4 No Background
Source GDJ
Background Wall, Art Abstract, white Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
A dark gray, sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
Awesome name, great pattern. Who does not love space?
Source Nick Batchelor
The image depicts a seamless pattern of a tortoise in tortoiseshell (hexagon).
Source Yamachem