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Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste (https://www.svgbackgrounds.com)

259 points by visiwig about 18 hours ago | 52 comments | View on ycombinator

Frannky about 10 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

wackget about 7 hours ago |

These are great. Please consider adding a visible <textarea> with the CSS instead of relying on "click to copy" buttons. For security reasons, some users/browsers disable access to the clipboard which means there's no fallback way to copy the CSS.

BoppreH about 10 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.

I wonder how people are using them in a way that is not distracting to the main content. I've found that high-frequency patterns (small details with sharp transitions) can be a bit distracting, but I haven't found a good solution that doesn't compromise the beauty of the backgrounds.

hju22_-3 about 12 hours ago |

The notice about having "access" to the backgrounds is sticky, and takes up one third of the screen on mobile with no way to remove it . . . Why?

karlshea about 6 hours ago |

Hey thanks so much! I actually found your site a bit over a year ago while I was redoing my portfolio and used one for my header.

gerdesj about 9 hours ago |

Not one of these efforts emulate <blink />. I want my money back.

jjwiseman about 9 hours ago |

I find it odd that there's a custom of blurring or obscuring exactly the thing I'm interested in when I show interest in it by mousing over it.

yesthisiswes about 9 hours ago |

These are awesome! I’d love to use some of these for my solitaire game.

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.

I wonder if you should add names for the patterns so we can pick favorites?

rcarmo about 1 hour ago |

These are pretty nice, congrats

throwaway2046 about 13 hours ago |

These are beautiful, thank you for sharing. I really like the one with the triangles, was it inspired by Rule 30?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30

ksymph about 5 hours ago |

Hmm, the parabolic ones seem to be broken? Both on FF and Chromium, they just display as an outline of a single shape on a black background.

visiwig about 18 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.

democracy about 8 hours ago |

it's great work man - been using your backgrounds for long long time now!

aerhardt about 12 hours ago |

This is very cool but hasn’t it been around for like a decade?

dormento about 14 hours ago |

This rocks. Thank you!

pseudosavant about 11 hours ago |

I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff, but I'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!

thekevan about 11 hours ago |

This is top notch, great work!

3duardol1m455 about 4 hours ago |

this matches my experience exactly

dylanhouli about 14 hours ago |

Great idea man, must be pulling in some good SEO traffic as well.

starkparker about 17 hours ago |

What's the license?

shah4as1 about 11 hours ago |

this is exactly what i needed

Theodores about 10 hours ago |

What is your authoring tool for SVG?

The SVG code is well written. It is neither Adobe bloat-spam-slop and neither is it overly SVGOMG'd.

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 'assets' from the artworker. SVG therefore has not evolved to a full art form.

decker502 about 9 hours ago |

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realaliarain74 about 9 hours ago |

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HalawehMohann49 about 12 hours ago |

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AbrarTheCrypt34 about 8 hours ago |

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