Hero Patterns – A collection of SVG background patterns for your web projects

http://www.heropatterns.com

by marvinpinto • 9 years ago

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trishume• 9 years ago

I wonder how different browsers rasterize tiling SVG backgrounds. Ideally they should rasterize it once to a buffer and then just blit it a bunch of times. But if any browser tries to rasterize it every repetition that's a ton of vector drawing for some of those patterns and it may be hella slow on some device/browser combinations.

It's not immediately clear that they would do the smart thing because most times SVGs are rendered only once so you would want to render it directly. It's only tiling backgrounds where this optimization makes sense. But I think as a consequence of it being treated as an image in CSS rather than a DOM SVG element it's quite likely most browsers do render it to a buffer first, not as an optimization but just because they treat rasterizing an SVG just like decoding a PNG.

If nobody has noticed these being super slow I guess browsers are doing the smart thing.

qmarchi• 9 years ago

On Chrome Mobile, it's just as speedy as any other website.

ReverseCold• 9 years ago

Can you specify Android or iOS? Android chrome is vastly different.

mythz• 9 years ago

Same UI designer is giving away quality SVG icons as well: http://www.zondicons.com/icons.html

sjroot• 9 years ago

Thank you for sharing! Is there any way to support these works?

dan1234• 9 years ago

Yes, the designer is creating some SVG icons[0] which you can get a discount on, if you sign up to the newsletter.

[0]http://www.heroicons.com

stanislavb• 9 years ago

Nice work. I will definitely use this website.

mshenfield• 9 years ago

Cool to see something built with Vue.js

pen2l• 9 years ago

Small suggestion: make the patterns bigger. Not many people do that, but it can give pretty good results every now and then

ktRolster• 9 years ago

A long time ago, I figured I'd save bandwidth by making the background image a single pixel (don't ask why I didn't just set the background color, I don't have a good reason). That was back in the days when web designers tried to make their pages less than 15k.

The rendering of the image on the background in Netscape was so slow, you could see it draw the lines across the screen.

detritus• 9 years ago

:) I encountered that with 2x2 gifs, two diagonal black against two alpha, to make a darkening half tone. Looked ok visually, but boy did it sieze browsers up!

huula• 9 years ago

Great work! Is it ok for commercial use?

AOsborn• 9 years ago

Yes, license is CC BY-SA, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

xkxx• 9 years ago

If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
build upon the material

Is there clearly defined difference between "build upon the material" and "using the material as part of your project"? Commercial use in most cases involves not wanting to release your own project under CC BY-SA 4.0. Even though it's possible to combine both (commercial use and CC BY-SA 4.0 for your own product), it's highly unlikely.

rejschaap• 9 years ago

Cool project. Did you consider adding a scale/zoom control? I think it would be a nice feature.

nikkwong• 9 years ago

+1 for zoom. The only other way to do it would be using pseudo elements and scaling it—or something or other. But offering zoom on this site would be nice :-)

adamwathan• 9 years ago

Hey! I'm a friend of Steve (who created Hero Patterns) and built the interactive VueJS stuff for the site.

We did try a scale/zoom thing initially, but found it wasn't super bullet proof because the patterns are designed at specific pixel sizes and sometimes seams would become visible when tiling the patterns if you scaled by an amount that caused little micro rounding issues with the rendered SVG.

Might take another stab at it, agreed it would be great to have.

codeisawesome• 9 years ago

I can't explain why I absolutely love the titles of the patterns. They're deliciously predictable, but just slightly unpredictable.

Gracana• 9 years ago

Note that some high frequency patterns cause horrible flashes and flickers when scrolling (or sometimes even when stationary) on some LCD monitors.

Hero Patterns – A collection of SVG background patterns for your web projects

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