80 Stunning Background Patterns For Your Websites
- By Vitaly Friedman
- Posted in DESIGN
- 82 comments
We are always attracted to the outstanding design, layout or content when we click in a website, but seldom of us would notice the textures and patterns that are used. If there are only background colors, many websites would not be that eye-catching as they are now.
Patterns can be simply repetition of simple stipes or polka-dots, others can be more complicated with complex combination of images and colors. A pattern must go with the overall style of the website, or it could be rather distractvie and annoying.
We have collected the following 80 brand new and stunning patterns. Best of all, they are all free to use. What are you waiting for? Use them on your website and give a whole new feeling to your visitors.
Brand New and Stunning Patterns
Designed by Miice
Designed by Twitter Patterns
Designed by Twitter Patterns
Designed by The Inspiration Gallery
Designed by Insurrectionx
Designed by BG Patterns/a>
Designed by Brushthis
Designed by Squid Fingers
Designed by The Inspiration Gallery
Designed by Pattern Cooler
Designed by Patterrific
Designed by Portfelia
Designed by Urban Strokes
Designed by Citrus Moon
Designed by Fractured Sanity
Designed by Everyday Icons
Designed by Koller Media
Designed by Ava7
Designed by Tickle
Designed by Tartanmaker
Designed by Appendix Squared
Designed by Hybrid-genesis
Designed by Shizoo
Designed by Don Barnett
Designed by Alice Grafixx
Designed by WebTreats
Designed by Din Pattern
Designed by PatternCooler
Designed by The Design Inspiration
Designed by Semireal Stock
Designed by Squidfingers
Designed by WebTreats
Designed by Squidfingers
Designed by Noqta
Designed by Din Pattern
Designed by PatternCooler
Designed by The Design Inspiration
Designed by Danda Luna
Designed by Noqta
Designed by WebTreats
Designed by Squidfingers
Designed by Noqta
Designed by Din Pattern
Designed by PatternCooler
Designed by The Design Inspiration
Designed by Onethirtytwo
Designed by WebTreats
Designed by Squidfingers
Designed by Noqta
Designed by Din Pattern
Designed by Kerim Karaman
Designed by WebTreats
Designed by Squidfingers
Designed by Noqta
Designed by Lady Manderley
Designed by WebTreats
Designed by Din Pattern
Designed by Logochic
Designed by WebTreats
Designed by Squidfingers
Designed by Noqta
Designed by Din Pattern
Designed by PatternCooler
Designed by The Design Inspiration
Designed by Itseh
Designed by Pattern 8
Designed by Dinpattern
Designed by WebTreats
Designed by Din Pattern
Designed by Afrodusa
Designed by Alessandro
Designed by Highwireart
Designed by Din Pattern
Designed by Dc larien
Designed by Dc larien
Designed by Din Pattern
Create Your Own Patterns
Repper is a free-to-use pattern creator that turns your images into eye-catching designs. It’s the easiest way to create beautiful patterns for your desktop or social profile background.
Sources and Resources
You’ll find many more amazing patterns for your websites on the following sites:
MySiteMyWay Patterns
All patterns, textures on this website are free for use in both personal and commercial projects.
Squidfingers / Patterns
Feel free to use any of these patterns on your own site.
Noqta.it
You can find lots of beautiful patterns on this site.
PatternCooler
Add your own colors to contemporary and retro pattern designs, or browse from thousands of pre-colored patterns in the seamless pattern background library.
Patterns – The Design Inspiration
To make every designer’s life easier, they feature the best patterns from the most talented designers from all around the world.
COLOURlovers :: Patterns
COLOURlovers is a resource that monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color.
About the Author
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Derrick, 28 October 2009
Great list. Thanks for the post.
Just awesome.
Derrick
Derrick, 28 October 2009
Great list. Thanks for the post.
Just awesome.
Some borken links on the Deviantart patterns.
Example: http://onethirtytwo.deviantart.com/art/Patterns-2-94122739
Derrick
webma, 28 October 2009
really nice i was looking for some good backgrounds for my project really nice you make my life easy well thanks and bookmarked.
Alexandre Broggio (Brasil), 28 October 2009
Thanks ^_^
Simon, 28 October 2009
Great! Thanks.
ron, 28 October 2009
Great list. Thanks for the post
esranull, 28 October 2009
thanks good list
Allie, 28 October 2009
Please note that twitterpatterns.com patterns are only free to use on twitter. It’s stated in the designer’s Terms of Use.
BeyondRandom, 28 October 2009
Great collection! Thanks for sharing
Arun, 28 October 2009
Great work… Thanks a lot!
designfollow, 28 October 2009
thanks for this great post.
Cameron Baney, 28 October 2009
What a great showcase of backgrounds. Even if one wasn’t going to use these, they are great inspiration for creating a background yourself.
joyoge bookmark, 28 October 2009
very nice patterns i like, thanks for share..
Ester, 28 October 2009
Very useful showcase! Thank you ^_^
Helen, 28 October 2009
Some a bit eye scorchingly bright for my liking, but some are rather beautiful!
Thanks!
Franz, 28 October 2009
nice thx!
Logo Bliss, 29 October 2009
Lovely collection.
WebtreatsEtc, 29 October 2009
Beautiful collection. Thanks for including webtreats in this great list of patterns!
designium, 30 October 2009
Nice collection D:
Jon Bergan, 30 October 2009
Some seriously awesome patterns in here. Great post. Thanks for putting up some fantastic content. Keep up the awesome work! :)
JB
Constantine, 31 October 2009
Too striking. Mediocre as patterns, and painful as website backgrounds.
saurabh shah, 31 October 2009
Thanks for sharing .. awesome lists …
Ashli, 31 October 2009
What an awesome list!!
David Kaplan, 31 October 2009
There’s a couple of nice ones, but overall they all remind me of Web 1.0 backgrounds – yuck!
David
Autonomy, 31 October 2009
I have to agree with @David on some of these. They are a headache! However, there are a lot of cool backgrounds I enjoyed perusing. To each there own. Thanks for the collection.
web design services stoke, 01 November 2009
Brilliant collection of backgrounds. Very Inspirational! Thank you
Elaine McVicar, 02 November 2009
Excellent list. I can see a lot of them being useful/inspirational. Thanks!
Gadget Sleuth, 02 November 2009
That first one…maybe a tad bit busy for most websites? Some of the others are nice though…myself, I like subtlety. Less is more.
Tanya, 04 November 2009
Great inspiration! Thank you
Shane, 04 November 2009
Really cool backgrounds, will try some out soon.
Thanks.
Colum, 05 November 2009
Thanks for these backgrounds. As a web designer, it always helps not having to make stuff from scratch!
Bono, 05 November 2009
There are a few that are really quite useful.
Thank a lot!
cheers :D
blak sheep, 05 November 2009
these are fantastic patterns and there are now a number of online resources which you can use to easily create your own. i’ve posted a number of background tile patterns with corresponding hex codes/palettes at http://blaksheepimages.tumblr.com. enjoy!
John, 06 November 2009
That first one (Navaho) s beyond awesome. It makes me jst want to stare… anyways, great list!
Crazieshamrock, 08 November 2009
Hey man thanks for this great resource.
Harriet, 03 December 2009
wow~ Nice background~
ftss2, 24 December 2009
yeah great collection!
Sabine, 16 February 2010
Thanks for including me. Great list, very inspirational!
Wishing you all a nice day.
kama, 22 February 2010
I use my own patern to for my twitter.
krike, 05 March 2010
awesome :D promoted on http://iv-designs.org
Mario, 06 April 2010
Great list. Thanks for the post
Tucson lawyers, 12 October 2010
Hey can I copy and paste this content on my internet site? What references must I give? You will need to give this info for other people too.
federico, 16 November 2010
buena lista de fondos!!
Dale O'Donnell, 08 December 2010
Thanks for the great list! Will help me for my new site
Adobe Man, 10 January 2011
Nice post
thx
Ajinkya, 21 January 2011
What is best than this one???
Shafeeque om, 09 February 2011
Great Work thanks for giving these much backgrounds
q8daily, 24 February 2011
Very nice patterns. I am looking to use one of them here q8daily.com
William Imhoff, 15 March 2011
Thanks for sharing thease great backgrounds.
jijojohn, 26 June 2011
nce article
Zubair Amjad, 28 July 2011
Thank you so much for sharing.
These patterns are realy cool and beautiful :)
hamilton, 01 August 2011
Valewww ajudo muito
Shey, 24 August 2011
I’m using one of your suggestions on my website. Thank you for sharing these awesome backgrounds!
AnchorPrint, 25 October 2011
Thanks for the backgrounds. I’ve juts used once background and I’ll think I’ll save a few more for later use. Cheers.
faberelle, 26 October 2011
thank you very much!
Very good bkgr
ruhi gupta, 10 November 2011
beautiful collection
nandha, 13 November 2011
great backgrounds .thanx
Putra, 22 December 2011
Nice :) Thanks 4 sharing . . . . . .
Joe from Small Business Websites, 25 December 2011
Nice collection. Saved few of them for future sites.
Brodyaga, 23 April 2012
Nice patterns. Very useful. thanks for share..
Mujeeb, 04 June 2012
thank you.. it is helped me very well in my work
Roger, 05 June 2012
Great post. Very useful collection.
Gouri, 10 June 2012
Thanks for this awesome list. They are equally beautiful and useful even today.
tomex, 13 June 2012
Nice , list . . . and i like the earthly theme on your site. .
Geoffrey Hale, 13 June 2012
Ah, beautiful! Thank you. =)
ancajasjc, 18 June 2012
really nice background. tnx for this mate.
vencanice, 06 July 2012
Very nice background patterns, thanks for sharing.
Suresh G, 15 July 2012
Very nice work. Really helpful… thanks
Manisha, 31 August 2012
awsome collection !!!! thanx !! worth for me :)
bannerweaver, 12 October 2012
A long list..thanks..useful too.Some of them uncommon.:)
housni, 07 November 2012
Great list. Thanks for the post
???? ????, 12 November 2012
Very nice work. Really helpful… thanks
çelik raf, 21 April 2013
nice patterns.. thank for a lot..
haider, 13 November 2012
really fantastic collection
raf, 20 December 2012
nice backgrounds but I didnt found my search..
Lewis, 30 December 2012
My website needed spicing up and some of these are just what I was looking for… Thanks!
blanche, 04 February 2013
Amazin collection of background patterns. Thanks!
Milan, 16 February 2013
Thank man for the great list. Could this list be better? Guess not!
Cheers!
Luke, 25 February 2013
Errrrr, the 1990′s called – they want their patterns back!!!
Seriously?? Most of them are disgusting! What’s next? The 80 best animated .gifs??
Dieter Petereit, 25 February 2013
Four years old article, try reading something fresh
Jose Basil, 11 March 2013
Useful Designs Thanks!
Nana Okofo Agyei, 31 March 2013
Thanks for the wonderful background.You have really made my day.This gesture, i will never forget.