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Life & fun · February 4, 2013

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Pick a better background pattern for your website

SubtlePatterns Bookmarklet allows you to preview backgrounds for your website quickly and easily

Pick a better background pattern for your website launched on February 4, 2013 with 347 votes, #2 of 551 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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In plain words

SubtlePatterns Bookmarklet is a browser tool that lets users preview background patterns from SubtlePatterns.com directly on their website. Web designers and site owners can quickly test hundreds of free patterns to find the right background for their site without leaving the page. The bookmarklet opens a widget that allows instant pattern switching, streamlining the process of selecting and evaluating website backgrounds.

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From the sources

Preview hundreds of great patterns from SubtlePatterns.com directly on your website Finding a good background pattern for your website can be a pain. Fortunately, SubtlePatterns offers hundreds of great patterns you can use on your website for free. This bookmarklet lets you preview all those background patterns directly on your website very quickly. This makes selecting a background for your website even easier! A bookmarklet is a special kind of bookmark that can perform a special ability. In this case it opens a small widget (like the one above) that lets you change the current website's background. Yes, by default the background pattern is applied to the <body> element. You can use the…from bradjasper.com

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