Background patterns play an important role in the design process. The main pattern used in nearly every site (grid and non grid) was the “title, thumbnail, short summary, more link” pattern. This pattern is generally used for indexing blog post summaries in sidebars, listing services, or creating small calls-to-action.
Do you need some tasty, high quality website background patterns for your next web project? Well if yes then you are at right place, in this article we are going to share some useful free pattern generator tools that will allow you to create beautiful, visually stunning and eye-catching patterns and backgrounds for your design projects.
Some of these pattern generators let you have control of colors, orientation, pattern elements and more, while others will randomly generate patterns for you. These patterns can then be downloaded in various image formats, or in code. Enjoy !!
1. Plain Pattern
Plain Pattern is An SVG based seamless pattern maker. This is currently a work in progress with more features to be added soon. It has been tested on IE 10/11 and the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Not fully tested yet on iOS and Android devices.
2. Pattern Lab
Pattern Lab is a collection of tools to help you create atomic design systems. At its core, Pattern Lab is a custom static site generator that constructs an interface by stitching atoms, molecules, and organisms together to form templates and pages.
Pattern Lab serves as your project’s pattern library and frontend style guide, but you’re simultaneously able to see components abstractly and in context. Testing across multiple browsers and devices is tedious. Page Follow streamlines the development process by syncing navigation from one browser with any other browser connected to the same Pattern Lab site.
3. Modular Grid Pattern
Modular Grid Pattern is application for web designers, which helps you quickly and easily to create a modular grid in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks, GIMP, Microsoft Expression Design and other. It works on the recent stable version of the browsers: Google Chrome, Safari, Opera or Mozilla Firefox
4. Plaid Maker
PlaidMaker is an online tool for making plaid patterns. You can create patterns for free and either download them to your computer or save them to the site. If you’d like to save private patterns you can sign up for PlaidMaker Plus.
5. Tartan Maker
TartanMaker.com is a free online service which lets you create tartan patternswith ease.
Color & width of the bands can be modified as well as the orientation & yarn sizes to create a custom tartan image.
6. Geo Pattern
GeoPattern provides a unique and random way to generate SVG patterns automatically. You are only required to enter a text (any text) and the tool will generate a unique and beautiful pattern
7. Patternizer
Patternizer is superb pattern generator tool that allows you to create beautiful patterns for your projects easily. You can pick a color, rotation angle, opacity, width, gap and offset to get your pattern. You can then grab the code for use on your site.
8. Stripe Generator
A simple tool to create great stripe patterns, you can add as many colors as you want to Stripe Generator then adjust the stripe size, spacing, background style, orientation and if you want to, add shadows.
9. Patternify
Patternify is an awesome pattern generator tool that you lets you create patterns by drawing them pixel by pixel and also let you create really good small-sized icons. With the support of color and transparency options, you can make some cool graphics with this tool.
10. BG Pattern
BG Pattern is useful pattern maker that lest you create beautiful patterns for your design projects, you can create and share existing pattern and it offers number of functions to create eye catching patterns. You can save your pattern in image format once you are done.
11. Gerstnerizer
Gerstnerizer allows you to create patterns generated in lines. At the site, set the line thickness, opacity and the curvature of the line on the tool panel found on the left.
12. Polka
Polka dot pattern generator lets you generate seamless repeating patterns for use in web background or with Photoshop as custom patterns and in custom graphics. You can generate one with the background and foreground color of your choice or even with a transparent background and use it which ever way you like.
13. Seamless Lite
Seamless Lite makes it easy to design a seamless pattern. With simple editing tools you can resize, rotate and add shapes, lines and text to the canvas and it tiles automatically. Save your pattern template and see how the world colors it in.
14. Knitting Pattern Generator
KPG is a free program that can create knitting patterns out of pictures. It can either create straight patterns or illusion patterns that only reveal the picture when viewed at an angle. kpg can take any kind of bitmap image and create a knitting pattern. It is recommended that low colour images/pictures be used to ensure the knitting process is as simple as possible. It is possible to use a black and white picture and create a pattern using only one colour and using different stitches for the picture.
15. Stichboard – Free Pattern
Its a useful pattern maker that gives you myriad of features and functions to generate create and innovative patterns.
16. Repper
Repper is a free-to-use pattern creator that turns your images into eye-catching designs. First of all, you can load a random example image or upload your own image. Resize & drag the box to change the pattern. And then save your design and download the pattern to your computer.
