In a world obsessed with modern design, patterns are often overlooked as an outdated concept. However, things ranging from our home wallpaper to the clothes we wear all have patterned themes, which are pretty hard to miss.
In the realm of graphic design, where creativity meets functionality, every element counts. So why should web design stay behind? Positive, bright, and most importantly, effective – with a simple play of arrangements and colors, graphic design can bring out the magic on your website!
On that note, we bring to you our compilation of 15 websites with patterned backgrounds to take inspiration and design notes from.
Let’s begin!
1. Wheelies Donuts
What could be better than using your own product as your website background? Wheelies Donuts nails this job by opting for a minimal design made up of ring donuts placed in a simple and neatly arranged fashion. Their logo symmetry complements the patterned background with the right ratio choice to the donut size.
By not using a wide array of colors, their design is pastel and effective without being too loud. Perfect for their brand identity of a mini donut business!
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2. Limonades la beauceronne
Blue and white: an age-old and reliable color combination, especially if your website is for a trusted 130-year old lemonade brand! Not quite a century-old brand? It’s never too early to start a lemonade stand.
Limonades la beauceronne takes a modern rendition of waves and blends them into their web design. Using neutral tones of light blue with a contrast of white, their pattern background itself is soothing!
3. Mariano Pascual
Mariano Pascual, an Argentina-based visual artist, uses the genius idea to make his personal website in an old-school free graphic design. Not only does it perfectly represent his art style, but it gives the feel of old-school software with quirky icon choices.
A grid-patterned background and the doorway to impress web-design enthusiasts to boost art piece sales!
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4. Jarritos
Imagine this: you’re on the beach in Mexico and all you need to quench your summer thirst is a glass bottle of flavored soda. Jarritos brings your imagination to life with their tropical patterned background!
With graphics of a jukebox, a neon arrow sign, a bottle-opener, and retro typography- all reduced in opacity before arranging, the design sets a perfect vacation mood.
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5. Raise the Roof Productions
Raise the Roof Productions brings on their website for you- a classic doodle of wavy clouds to border around a slideshow gallery of their TV show stills and posters.
A simple pattern background goes a long way if you match the colors of your photo pairings well!
6. Fixate
There’s much more pressure on how your website looks if you’re a team of web designers yourself. Fixate takes on this challenge by serving a brilliant combination of eye-popping colors and vectors.
The spacing between their pattern background design, remove background and text is just right to not be too distracting, and also divides equal focus on both!
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7. Boreh
When we say that Boreh’s website is hypnotizing, we mean it more than just a compliment!
An optically playful combination of white and black lines can be just as stunning for a website’s patterned background as on an architectural magazine.
8. Letters, Inc.
Sci-Fi meets website background in Letters, Inc.’s choice of design.
Recreating the inside of a computer chip, they bring a modern taste to good-old patterned backgrounds!
9. Cultural Solutions UK
Cultural Solutions, UK plays with soft colors and circles around white typography on their website to build an interactive design. A perfect combination of modern polka dots with a nice web interface!
10. Café Frida
Elegant, pretty, and French – the acrylic-painted flowers are just as artsy as the vibe that Cafe Frida aims to provide its customers.
Lettering with an effective font brings out the best of any website’s patterned backgrounds, and this design is the right one to take notes from.
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13. Gelateria Savoia
14. Awwwards
15. Paaatterns
Simplified Design Tip: Try creating your own patterned backgrounds using graphics from the ‘Components‘ option, right from your Simplified workspace!
Or, follow our quick video guide to create your own: