Transparenttextures.com

If it ever degrades to the point of being actively dangerous (and the attribution link rot is pretty close), I'll shut it down.

To avoid the problem of linked domains leading to malware or things like that, you might consider linking to archived snapshots on Wayback Machine of the links instead of the real pages, for those sites that are now no longer hosting what they used to.

Nice work!

Good fun, please add wallpapers up to 4K!

I remember using this back then for fun projects. So cool to see it again here and your comment! Thanks for the site!

Could the whole thing be open sourced and moved to Github pages so it can be forked and maintained? This is an amazing resource on par with the defunct Webtreats.etc that was never properly archived as far as I know outside of Wayback(Kinda).

I could even see this whole thing just being packaged into finished projects, to allow user or admin-selectable themes, especially with the new CSS features.

Assuming the CC-BY requirements are met using just the data that's available, this still has a lot of potential.

> If it ever degrades to the point of being actively dangerous (and the attribution link rot is pretty close), I'll shut it down.

If you do shut it down, and safety is a concern, I would keep the domain going for a while with an “it is all gone…” message, otherwise as soon as it expires it'll be replaced by something less safe. Usually this will be a standard “domain for sale” page with a pile of trackers, but as this domain has hit the front page of HN today I expect several bots have just scraped the content so if they get the domain they can shove it back up with ads & trackers.

Or if you want it to survive but don't have time to clean up the rot, maybe do as someone else suggested and put in on GitHub, so others can fork & fix it, and replace the site at the current domain with a link to that so anyone following a link to the current domain can find the remnants and any forks. And if a particularly well maintained fork does turn up, perhaps link directly to that too.

That's awesome, I used your project dozens of times, it was always my first stop whenever I needed some funk for a project page. Thanks so much!

I think this website has been around long enough it probably comes from the ‘everything on the internet is free’ era.

The author just commented [0] to mention everything is CC-BY-3.0.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41515968

There's lots of good ones at https://css-pattern.com/

I had the same question at first. Upon downloading and inspecting the PNG file, you will notice that it actually has an alpha channel. This allows us to give it any color we want easily by giving a background color property in CSS. That could still be achieved however, if it wasn't transparent, by playing with the Hue value.

By any chance are you able to point to any examples ..this sounds interesting and I may want to use this technique in my next project. Thanks.

Here's what that list of transparent textures looks like on a gradient background:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240912000631/https://jade-deni... (slower to load, but better to view on a big monitor.)

https://archive.is/tvcvt (faster to load, but not full width.)

I threw it together quickly. So some of the patterns may be a bit difficult to judge when seen using the size of the preview boxes in my grid. But some of them look surprisingly good on this particular gradient and preview size. Also, this little page with the gradient background is best viewed on desktop rather than mobile.

Unlike the original Transparent Textures website this page does not give you any tools to play around with background, and unlike the original site does not let you click the individual patterns to swap the background. That's intentional – I only wanted to quickly see what the patterns looked like on a gradient background. Not to step on the toes of the creator of the website.