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COOL BACKGROUNDS


 * TRIANGLIFY
   
   Colorful abstract triangles


 * PARTICLES
   
   Precise technical lines


 * CSS GRADIENT
   
   Happy fresh color blends


 * GRADIENT TOPOGRAPHY
   
   Smooth layered shapes


 * UNSPLASH
   
   Immersive compelling images




 * COOL BACKGROUNDS
   
   


 * CLEAR LAGOON
   
   


 * PERSIAN LOUNGE
   
   


 * TROPICAL SALAD
   
   


 * RUBY GARDEN
   
   


 * SEA EDGE
   
   


 * WOODED FLORA
   
   


 * EMBER SPARK
   
   


 * SPANISH PAPRIKA
   
   


 * RANGER MADE
   
   

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ABOUT THIS TOOL


COOL BACKGROUNDS

After laboring over your latest piece of writing, one of the hardest steps
before hitting publish is finding an exciting background image to really
showcase and draw attention to your post.

Cool Backgrounds is a collection of tools to create compelling, colorful images
for blogs, social media, and websites. Beyond backgrounds, the images generated
can be used as 🖥 desktop wallpapers or cropped for 📱 mobile wallpapers.

> “How have I worked without a creative tool like this? It makes me feel like a
> super growth expert!” Robert Yuen, CEO of Monograph.io

For the initial launch, the site exposes five of my favorite background tools
from dynamic particles to the ever popular Unsplash. The intention over time is
to add more options with this site serving as a curated repository of the best
background image tools on the web.


WHY DID YOU MAKE THIS?

While finishing up a gradient generator project CSS Gradient (which launched
earlier this year), I unexpectedly noticed the popularity of wallpaper and
background images. Digging a bit deeper, I found this huge community of online
sites that were curating wallpaper images from the eclectic Deviant Art crowd to
the more modern creative commons image sites. While free static images are
great, what was missing was a tool that enables non-technical folks to use all
the emerging javascript libraries to create unique images of their own. So Cool
Backgrounds was born 💥.

Working as a designer for several startups Cool Backgrounds helps solve some
basic design problems for marketers and social media managers, but design is an
ongoing need. In addition, the recently launched Service List allows companies
to get unlimited graphic design help whenever they need it. You send them a
design task and a few days later the services send it back to you ready for
feedback. We often use them for quick design iterations or smaller design tasks,
and the services have given us more time to focus on other business problems.


USE CASES

With the increasing visual nature of the web, the background images from this
site can be used for a plethora of reasons. Listed here are a few ideas to get
the creative engine started.



BLOG POST HERO IMAGE

The image discovery problem first emerged while working on tutorials for HTML
Color Codes. With somewhat dry material like HTML code, it's hard to create a
compelling image that represents the actual power of that knowledge.
Trianglify.js to the rescue! Utilizing the javascript library, we added our
brand colors and generated a high resolution image that looked amazing. To this
day we still get random emails asking us how we created that background 😄.



SOCIAL MEDIA BANNER

Nearly every social media site has a profile banner that lets you showcase an
image at the top. Whether you need an image for a Facebook Group, a parody
Twitter account, or even yourself, Cool Backgrounds can let you show the world
your creative side.



DESKTOP AND PHONE WALLPAPER

One of the primary reasons folks search for background images is to set them as
wallpapers on their computers and phones. As a personal favorite, I'm using the
Gradient Topography background in Black and Dark Grey—it sits stealthily on the
homescreen of my iPhone.


GALLERY

As a quick sample of a few options availabe on Cool Backgrounds, the following
list of images are ready to use for any application. To download, right click
and select "Save Image As..."




COLOPHON

While Cool Backgrounds is a fine resource for generating images from popular
javascript libraries, the real heavy lifting comes from the library authors
themselves. When it comes to customer support, Quinn Rohlf from Trianglify.js is
incredibly responsive and a really smart guy to boot. Particle.js is developed
by Marc Brüderlin with a wonderful API and is being actively maintained.
Gradient Topography is a newly minted project by me as a response to the amazing
work by the Codrops crew. And of course Unsplash is one of the best internet
treasures of all time, built by the former Crew team as a side project.

Oh yea and can't forget CSS Gradient and Rellax.js which is the "cool
background" that powers those sliding parallax shapes in the content section of
this site!




SIDE PROJECT COLLECTIVE

We're a group of makers with a mission to build a better internet, one digital
project at a time. Recently launched tools include a gorgeous Day of the Dead
resource site and a seamless way to count words with Word Counter.







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SUMMARY

Cool Backgrounds is a designstripe project, a smart design tool.

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