The Pattern Library
Literally a library of patterns: y’know, for tiling background images. Old school!
Lisbon Azulejos
When I was in Porto a few weeks back, I took lots of pictures of the beautiful tiles. They reminded me of the ubiquitous repeating background images that were so popular on the early web. I was thinking about abstracting them into a collection of reusable patterns but now it looks like I’ve been beaten to it!
Related links
Plus Equals #3, September 2021
Want to take a deep dive into tiling images? Like, a really deep dive. Rob has you covered.
Basic Pattern Repository
A nice little collection of very simple—and very lightweight—SVGs to use as background patterns.