atlemo/subtlepatterns

SubtlePatterns is a repository containing all the pattern image files from subtlepatterns.com, a website that provided tileable background textures for web designers. The collection includes the original pattern images alongside a Photoshop .pat file, which is a bundled format that graphic designers can load directly into Adobe Photoshop to access all patterns at once. The README is brief and does not describe the individual patterns in detail. It notes that if you need the patterns in Base64 format (a way to encode binary files as text, often used to embed images directly into CSS stylesheets without separate file downloads), an external conversion tool is linked for that purpose. The patterns are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. This means you can use them in personal and commercial projects as long as you credit the original authors and keep the same license on any work you share publicly. Credits for individual patterns are listed on subtlepatterns.com rather than inside this repository. The collection was created and curated by Atle Mo. Other contributors created the individual patterns and are credited separately on the original website. The copyright on the README is dated 2013, and the repository appears to be an offline archive of the subtlepatterns.com library rather than an actively maintained project. This is a static file collection with no code, no setup steps, and no build process. You download the files you want and add them to your project. Given the sparse README, there is no further documentation about the contents beyond what is available on the original website.