We all know that backgrounds play a crucial role in a design. A lot goes in designing the backgrounds with different textures and patterns, choosing the right colors and a lot other factors. Not only the backgrounds but buttons, logos, scroll bars, texts, and a lot is important when it comes in designing and it does involve a lot of creativity and time to zero in the final one. While you could start every project by doing the same things again and again, the smart designers and developers know the importance of a well-developed workflow. One of the things that can accelerate and enhance your workflow are online generators.
I have listed all online free background pattern generators that can save you some time while providing great results.
1. Pattern Cooler
Pattern Cooler is an online pattern library that is packed with pretty patterns which lets you create seamless background patterns online and then download them for personal use on the website.
2. BgPatterns
BgPatterns is a tiny web app for making background patterns in a few clicks. It was created mostly for fun and experimentation by Sergii Iavorskyi.
3. ColourLovers Patterns
COLOURlovers is a social network service and blog where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns, discuss the latest trends and explore colorful articles for both personal and professional creative projects.
4. StripeMania
Stripemania is a simple and free web tool to create seamless diagonal stripes for your designs. You are able to choose the size of the stripes and the spacing between those. You can even add color gradient effect for all of your stripes.
5. Striped Backgrounds
StripedBGs is a simple online tool which allows you to make your own custom striped backgrounds with 5 colors by just simply filling in the RGB color codes below each stripe.
6. Pixelknete Backgrounds Dotted
Dotter allows you to easily create stylish dotted background with either one or two colors.
7. Tartan Maker
Tartan Maker is a new trendsetting application for cool designers created by Alex ‘Pit’ La Rosa & Fabio Fidanza. You can easily create tartans with up to 10 bands and then export them as PNGs.
8. Stripe Generator
Stripe Generator is a tool for “Web 2.0″ designers that creates seamless stripe patterns and textures of any two colors, harnessing the power of AJAX.
9. bgMaker
Stripemania.
10. Repper Partterns
Repper is a pattern creator that turns your images into eye-catching designs. It is easy, fun and available for Windows, Mac & Linux with small fee but you can try to make your own free online by use their tools.
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Tnx for a stripe generator link, been looking for it for a while.
What software or skills are required to build these sort of generators. Is it Flash?
Nope, it’s just only require the internet connnection! :D
Hi Đình, just wanted to suggest this seamless iconic pattern generator service – http://patternico.com to your compilation.
Originally we had created it for ourselves because it just was waaay to long to do this task in Photoshop every time but now we decided to release it in public so everyone can use it, hope you like it!
just saw an interesting one that generates live background, looks promising too:
https://makebackground.io/
it seems to generate non-repeatable pattern… but images are in high resolution so you can use it as a single image.