[HN Gopher] Transparenttextures.com
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       Transparenttextures.com
        
       Author : surprisetalk
       Score  : 94 points
       Date   : 2024-09-09 16:25 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.transparenttextures.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.transparenttextures.com)
        
       | unsnap_biceps wrote:
       | I can't seem to find licensing info on the textures. Where can I
       | use them legally?
        
         | Aeolun wrote:
         | I think this website has been around long enough it probably
         | comes from the 'everything on the internet is free' era.
        
           | gmiller123456 wrote:
           | Sadly, today that often interprets to: someone bought (or
           | just claims to have) the rights and now makes a living suing
           | people for using it. If you plan to use it for anything
           | serious, it's worth the effort to find something with an
           | actual license.
        
       | sbussard wrote:
       | This is cool! I'd be interested in seeing how much of this could
       | be accomplished with svg or raw css
        
         | edent wrote:
         | There's lots of good ones at https://css-pattern.com/
        
       | kmoser wrote:
       | Cool, but how do you create your own patterns? I was hoping for
       | an editor that let me create my own.
        
       | keyboardcaper wrote:
       | Wow, I remember using this 10 years ago.
        
       | geon wrote:
       | A transparent noise texture plus css blur on the background makes
       | a really nice frosted glass effect.
        
       | armchairhacker wrote:
       | I wonder how they look with a gradient background
        
       | supercoffee wrote:
       | A lot of the attribution links on this site lead to shady domain
       | squatting sites, or sites that appear to be hosting malware.
        
       | mikehearn wrote:
       | It's extremely weird to see this site on HN! I built this site in
       | 2014 -- and haven't touched it since. I wasn't a developer then,
       | I was a product manager, and this was a "look, hiring managers, I
       | can build things" side project (it worked, I've been a dev since
       | 2016).
       | 
       | Despite being about 40% broken I keep the site up because it's
       | still reasonably functional and there are a surprising amount of
       | sites that now depend on having hotlinked the patterns directly
       | from this domain. If it ever degrades to the point of being
       | actively dangerous (and the attribution link rot is pretty
       | close), I'll shut it down. Until then, it's a fun relic from the
       | internet of a decade ago.
       | 
       | Just to answer a question upthread (and I 100% agree this should
       | be on the website), the patterns are all CC-BY-3.0, meaning it
       | just requires attribution and any pattern can be used for free.
        
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