I was recently looking for patterns to use as repeating tiles in a web design. Mostly I found the garish sort that you might remember from the early days of the web… those busy, awful, repeating patterns we used to see in web pages circa 1995-96, and later in some cases (still, in some cases).
No, I felt that I had seen cooler patterns than those somewhere. Eventually, I stumbled upon squid finger. These are some really cool patterns; you wouldn’t want to put text over them, but they might make a good border, or a background behind a text box. There are almost 150 patterns on the site. A couple examples follow:
They wouldn’t fit every design type, but there are a whole lot of them, and every once in awhile a design might call for something just like these. Check them out!
