Rick's Appetizers

Backgrounds

"It's the weird color-scheme that freaks me. Every time you try to operate one of these weird black controls, which are labeled in black on a black background, a small black light lights up black to let you know you've done it!"
--Zaphod Beeblebrox   
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy   
Originally intended as desktop patterns (that's "wallpaper" for the Macintosh challenged), these designs will work as web backgrounds too. But don't leave your readers like poor Zaphod. Different patterns work better with different colors of text, and some are too busy to serve as backgrounds for text at all. You can use the swatch on the left to judge: hover your mouse over a selection to see it displayed in the swatch; click it to open a window from which you can download it.. [texturefnoob icon] These patterns were created using an insanely great application called TextureFnoob, by Andrew Plotkin. TF can do a lot more than generate desktop patterns--for example, it also produced the "flaming apple" seen here.
[flaming apple]

It's the weird color scheme that freaks me... bark1 bark2 bigcrzspir bluebits
It's the weird color scheme that freaks me... blueblobs bluebumpy blueburlap bluecord
It's the weird color scheme that freaks me... bluediag bluediag2 bluegrainy bluemud
It's the weird color scheme that freaks me... bluepebbles bluespirals bluetufts blueweave
It's the weird color scheme that freaks me... blugrnpebbles blugrnpebbles2 blugrnpebbles3 brownbumpy
It's the weird color scheme that freaks me... brownweave cells cells2 concrete
It's the weird color scheme that freaks me... coppergrainy crazyspirals curtain denim
It's the weird color scheme that freaks me... grass grass2 grayfabric greencarpet
It's the weird color scheme that freaks me... greencord greengrainy greenpebbles greenswirly
It's the weird color scheme that freaks me... greentufts greenweave gridiron indigobumpy
It's the weird color scheme that freaks me... lapis lblubumpy lbluefabric lpurpburlap
It's the weird color scheme that freaks me... lpurpfabric magblobs parquet1 parquet2
It's the weird color scheme that freaks me... purpleburplap radial1 radial2 redblobs
It's the weird color scheme that freaks me... redmud sharkstooth sharkstooth2 sharkstooth3
It's the weird color scheme that freaks me... shimmer1 shimmer2 sine sine2
It's the weird color scheme that freaks me... sine3 spirals spirals2 spirals3
It's the weird color scheme that freaks me... spirals4 spirals5 stucco tanbumpy
It's the weird color scheme that freaks me... tanfabric tealbits tealbumpy tealfabric
It's the weird color scheme that freaks me... tealpitted tealspirals tealswirlyfab verdigris