COcowsaysoink·Sep 26, 2012
The github repo[1] says they are under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
[1]: https://github.com/subtlepatterns/SubtlePatterns
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SubtlePatterns
All the patterns
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Observed mentions: 2012-07-26 19:49:24 UTC to 2012-09-26 14:02:51 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jul 23 | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-07-30 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jul 30 | 2012-07-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-08-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 6 | 2012-08-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 13 | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-08-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 20 | 2012-08-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-08-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 27 | 2012-08-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-09-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 3 | 2012-09-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-09-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 10 | 2012-09-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-09-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 17 | 2012-09-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 24 | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesSubtle Patterns has been around for a pretty long while now. It's a great site. My designer colleagues use it quite a bit.
The only thing I wish it did was show the pattern size by default in the description. Some of them show it, but not all. And in my experience they vary a good bit.
Also, on the Github page, there is a .pat zip of all the patterns which makes it even better https://github.com/subtlepatterns/SubtlePatterns
In Subtle PatternsYou can also download the patterns from their github repo: https://github.com/subtlepatterns/SubtlePatterns
Edit: And here is their famous photoshop .pat file containing all the patterns: https://github.com/subtlepatterns/SubtlePatterns/blob/master...
In SubtlePatterns.com has been hijacked.All Subtle Patterns available on github.
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