21 comments

  • Frannky2 hours ago
    I am very confused by the comments, they seem too excited for this... Are they real or paid bots? If they are real, kudos to OP
    • j451 hour ago
      There’s likely folks who discovered to that svgs could do many amazing things, except the tooling didn’t seem to be readily available.<p>Now when I see someone build something working with SVG, I check it out to see how it might compare to another way of doing it.
    • Frannky2 hours ago
      It may also be that I am just comment AI paranoid, but yeah, I find myself a lot guessing if there&#x27;s a person behind a comment or not
  • hju22_-34 hours ago
    The notice about having &quot;access&quot; to the backgrounds is sticky, and takes up one third of the screen on mobile with no way to remove it . . . Why?
    • andai3 hours ago
      You have access. Enjoy!<p>Edit: upon further investigation, access isn&#x27;t something that&#x27;s just thrown around willy nilly! It usually goes for $120&#x2F;yr!
  • BoppreH2 hours ago
    Those are excellent! The orange shingles are my favorite. Though I think some of them are not working on Firefox; the blue and green vortices are rendered as a single blue rectangle and a single green hexagon.<p>I wonder how people are using them in a way that is not distracting to the main content. I&#x27;ve found that high-frequency patterns (small details with sharp transitions) can be a bit distracting, but I haven&#x27;t found a good solution that doesn&#x27;t compromise the beauty of the backgrounds.
    • echoangle2 hours ago
      I think it’s kind of common to have the background for the whole document and then have an overlay with a solid color (and maybe less-than-100% opacity if you’re daring) on which the main content with all the text is shown. This works best for browser that are full screen on PC screens of course where you want to limit text width anyways. On mobile or narrow windows, you don’t have a lot of space to show the background.
      • BoppreH2 hours ago
        Thanks. I&#x27;m already doing something similar, but I feel like the background that is visible on the <i>sides</i> is still somewhat distracting. Might be my imagination though.
  • gerdesj1 hour ago
    Not one of these efforts emulate &lt;blink &#x2F;&gt;. I want my money back.
  • yesthisiswes1 hour ago
    These are awesome! I’d love to use some of these for my solitaire game.<p>Weird thing when I preview one of the backgrounds then scroll down the page on mobile the images disappear. I have to refresh the page to view all the backgrounds again after selecting one.<p>I wonder if you should add names for the patterns so we can pick favorites?
  • democracy31 minutes ago
    it&#x27;s great work man - been using your backgrounds for long long time now!
  • jjwiseman1 hour ago
    I find it odd that there&#x27;s a custom of blurring or obscuring exactly the thing I&#x27;m interested in when I show interest in it by mousing over it.
  • dylanhouli6 hours ago
    Great idea man, must be pulling in some good SEO traffic as well.
    • Frannky2 hours ago
      Like this user has a comment history of hyping show HN
    • visiwig5 hours ago
      Yes, I was lucky enough to find a keyword domain that was available. Would recommend :)
  • visiwig9 hours ago
    Each one can be copied as inline SVG or CSS using the background-image property with a data URI. Most are under 1KB.
  • throwaway20465 hours ago
    These are beautiful, thank you for sharing. I really like the one with the triangles, was it inspired by Rule 30?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rule_30" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rule_30</a>
  • AbrarTheCrypt3431 minutes ago
    saved for later. exactly the kind of deep dive i was looking for
  • aerhardt4 hours ago
    This is very cool but hasn’t it been around for like a decade?
  • dormento6 hours ago
    This rocks. Thank you!
    • visiwig6 hours ago
      Glad you think so, you&#x27;re welcome, enjoy!
  • thekevan3 hours ago
    This is top notch, great work!
  • pseudosavant3 hours ago
    I&#x27;m a sucker for this kind of stuff, but I&#x27;m usually disappointed after clicking the link. These on the other hand are excellent, and that they have configurable options like stroke, color, etc is gravy on the top. Thanks for sharing!
  • shah4as13 hours ago
    this is exactly what i needed
  • starkparker9 hours ago
    What&#x27;s the license?
    • visiwig9 hours ago
      The license can be found here: svgbackgrounds.com&#x2F;license<p>Summary: You can use graphics in personal or commercial projects, you cannot use the graphics as the primary integrity of your product, you must provide attribution (svgbackgrounds.com&#x2F;attribution)<p>And before anyone rips off my head, attribution can be placed inside commented out code, so it doesn&#x27;t need to take away from your design.
  • Theodores2 hours ago
    What is your authoring tool for SVG?<p>The SVG code is well written. It is neither Adobe bloat-spam-slop and neither is it overly SVGOMG&#x27;d.<p>For picky SVG people you could have some easy way to present the code. Only a minority value quality SVG, artworkers do not look at SVG code and coders just see SVG as &#x27;assets&#x27; from the artworker. SVG therefore has not evolved to a full art form.
  • decker5021 hour ago
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  • HalawehMohann494 hours ago
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  • realaliarain741 hour ago
    this matches my experience exactly