best-subtle-black-white-background-textures 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

Are you looking for a subtle black and white background texture to make your designs stand out from the crowd? In this collection, we’re featuring some of the most beautiful, simple, and modern black and white background textures you can use for your design projects.

A black and white texture is the ideal choice for crafting a background to better highlight the content of your design.

Whether its a website, a presentation slideshow, a poster, a book cover, or a social media post, a B&W background will help emphasize the text and the content of your design above all else.

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Atomic-30-Abstract-BW-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

Atomic is a collection of subtle abstract backgrounds that feature various styles of patterns. You can use these backgrounds in many different design projects, including website backgrounds, apps, social media covers, and more.

Wall-Grunge-Texture-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

A massive bundle of background textures featuring grunge-style patterns. This pack includes 43 black backgrounds and 43 white backgrounds in JPG file format. These backgrounds are most suitable for crafting posters, flyers, as well as website backgrounds and social media posts.

Grunge-SKY-Black-White-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

This collection of backgrounds feature a set of unique black and white backgrounds featuring cloud textures based on photos of real skies. The bundle includes 12 backgrounds in black and another set of 12 backgrounds in white color.

Wall-Texture-Black-White-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

A collection of 42 black and white backgrounds featuring wall textures and patterns. These backgrounds are available in 6016× 4016 resolution and in JPG file format.

Dark-Marble-BW-Background-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

This stylish black and white background feature a dark marble texture that will help make your designs stand out from the crowd. The texture is available in both JPG and EPS file formats.

Slate-Texture-BW-Background-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

A subtle black and white background texture you can use with various website background and poster background designs. You can use this background for free in personal and commercial projects with attribution to its author.

Melt-Abstract-Black-and-White-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

Melt is a big bundle of black and white backgrounds that feature modern and smooth designs. The pack includes 6 unique background designs and they are available in 19 different color variations. You’ll be able to use these backgrounds on many different occasions.

black-texture-background-1-1536x1024 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

Check out this beautifully crafted abstract background with black and white smooth lines perfectly fit for posters, flyers, wallpapers, websites, phone cases, invitation cards, applications, presentations, you just name it.

black-texture-background-2-1536x1024 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

Next up we have a set of geometric background templates ideal for both web and print projects. It comes in 11000x11000px at 300dpi and contains everything you’d expect in a professional and creative bundle of geometric white and black texture backgrounds.

black-texture-background-3-768x512 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

This template contains black and white backgrounds that appear just like tomatoes in a woodcut style. It’s an ideal choice for a variety of web projects and comes in a fully editable, high-resolution, 5000x5000px format.

black-texture-background-4-1536x1024 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

This collection of 6 high-quality black and white subtle texture backgrounds is a great choice for any space or cosmo project. The backgrounds are fully customizable in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Figma, Sketch, and Affinity Designer.

black-texture-background-5-1536x1024 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

Feast your eyes on this set of ten stunning, black and white subtle texture backgrounds featuring a striped waves design that you will agree is alluring. The design is a perfect choice for booklets, flyers, posters, and more.

10-Black-White-Marble-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

The beautiful marble effect in this backgrounds pack is truly amazing. It’s perfect for creating a background for a landing page, website, or a social media profile. The bundle includes 10 unique backgrounds featuring different designs.

Black-and-White-Space-Polygon-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

This is a pack of black and white backgrounds featuring space-themed designs. It includes 12 different backgrounds in 5120 x 2880 resolution. You can use them to design backgrounds for websites, apps, greeting cards, and more.

Lines-Abstract-Stripes-Black-White-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

This bundle of backgrounds features a stylish black and white striped design which are ideal for crafting greeting cards, invitations, packaging, and more. The pack includes 39 different backgrounds in 4500 x 3000 resolution.

10-Black-and-White-Polygon-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

Another pack of stylish black and white backgrounds with polygonal designs. It includes 10 different background designs in 5000 x 3333 resolution. You can use them to craft backgrounds for product landing pages, websites, presentations, and posters.

Subtle-Black-Layered-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

A dark yet a subtle backgrounds pack that’s most suitable for designing websites and apps, especially with a focus on highlighting its content. The bundle includes 10 backgrounds with different textures.

Black-Sand-Texture-Background-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

This is a royalty-free background that features a sand-like texture. This background will fit in well with your website backgrounds and social media post designs.

Star-Light-Trail-BW-Background-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

A stacked image of the Pole Star and the light trails in the night sky. This unique background is ideal for use with your creative projects. It’s free to use with your personal and commercial projects.

Diagonal-24-Rounded-Lines-Subtle-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

This bundle of backgrounds includes 24 different stylish designs that feature rounded lines. The backgrounds are available in 12 different color variations, including black and white and in 4500 x 3000 resolution.

Abstract-White-Particles-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

The subtle backgrounds in this bundle feature creative black and white particle design. It comes with 11 different backgrounds in 6K resolutions. You can use them to create stylish website and app backgrounds as well as for presentations and promotions.

Dark-Stone-Wall-Texture-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

Dark stone is a collection of textures that feature designs based on real photos of stone walls. It features 27 unique stone wall texture backgrounds in 3000 x 3000-pixel resolution and includes 1 additional texture of dry leaves. The stone wall texture of these backgrounds will give a bold look to your designs.

Waves-Subtle-Textures-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

Waves is a beautifully minimalist textured backgrounds collections that feature subtle wavy lines in a clean background design. The pack includes 10 different backgrounds in 3000 x 2000 resolution, which makes them perfect for your website backgrounds, app designs, logotype presentations, and much more.

Chalk-Texture-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

This is a pack of 12 unique black and white backgrounds that features chalk-like textures in different designs and styles. You can use them in your print designs, presentation slideshows, website header designs, and more.

Grit-Texture-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

Grit is a background textures collection that emphasizes the white color of the design. The bundle features 10 different textures with unique, rough, and attractive designs. These backgrounds are perfect for crafting quote photos for social media posts as well as backgrounds for website headers and apps.

Pen-Texture-Black-White-Background-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

Another royalty-free background texture featuring a creative pattern design. You can use this texture to design backgrounds for all kinds of modern websites, apps, posters, and much more.

Leather-Texture-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

A collection of highly minimalist backgrounds that includes textures based on leather material. The subtle design of these backgrounds and the level of minimalism is beyond any other B&W background you’ll ever see. This seems like the ideal background pack for designs related to a luxury fashion brand or a high-end product website.

White-Lava-Background-Textures-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

White Lava background textures pack comes with 15 different designs that feature subtle textures as well as a lot of white space. These backgrounds will be perfect for making a header image for a minimalist website design.

Grunge-Wall-Texture-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

Even though our collection is supposed to be all black and white backgrounds, we couldn’t resist including this one on the list. This pack includes 10 amazing wall texture backgrounds in 3000 x 2000 resolution and featuring a delightful mix of color and depth unlike any other.

Geometric-Textured-Backgrounds-1-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

A bundle of textured backgrounds featuring subtle geometric patterns. This pack comes with 10 unique texture backgrounds and you’ll be able to choose them from 6 different color variations. These backgrounds are especially suitable for web-based designs.

Black-Dark-Watercolor-Texture-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

This pack of background textures features a set of watercolor-based designs. It includes 24 unique backgrounds for using with your website and print projects. It also comes with an additional Photoshop pattern file for easily creating your own unique backgrounds.

Inverted-Black-Ink-Backgrounds-5-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

A collection of dark backgrounds featuring a subtle handmade ink design. The pack comes with 15 unique backgrounds in 6000 x 4000 resolution. These are ideal for designing a background for a website design, social media covers, print design, and many others.

Vintage-Book-Textures-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

This bundle includes unique textures with patterns that you usually see on vintage books. It features 8 unique vintage-style textures, which you can use to craft your own black or white backgrounds for your website, app, and print designs.

15-Dust-and-Hair-Particles-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

Dust and particle effects are a common texture you usually see in many modern graphic designs, especially combined with vibrant colors. However, it also looks great in black and white as well. This bundle proves that with its 15 brilliant backgrounds which have been made with “optically captured dust particles”.

20-Wood-Textures-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

This bundle comes with 20 unique background textures that feature wood-based curvy designs. If you’re working on a children book cover, a kids-themed website, or any other quirky design, these textures will help you craft a unique background for your project.

30-Dust-Particles-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

Another bundle of dust particles backgrounds featuring 30 different textures and backgrounds in many different colors, including dark and black backgrounds. These backgrounds will work well with both print and web-based designs.

WEB-Delightfully-Subtle-Texture-Pack-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

A collection of 30 unique texture backgrounds design specifically for web-based design projects. It features subtle textures featuring a design based on lightly distressed papers with different styles and hues. It also comes with layered PSD files for easy editing and customizing the textures as you like.

Black-Dark-Texture-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

A bundle of 12 dark background textures for using with your luxury design projects and many other print designs, including business cards, book covers, phone covers, and more. This pack also includes a Photoshop pattern file as well.

Silver-Texture-Patterns-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

A pack of background textures featuring a subtle pattern. The backgrounds in this pack feature a dark design with a touch of silver color, which adds a certain originality to all backgrounds in this bundle. It includes 12 backgrounds and 1 pattern file.

Painted-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

This is a collection of unique background textures that features artistic patterns of painted styles. It includes 12 background textures in 3000 x 2000 resolution. These backgrounds will certainly give your designs a stylishly artistic look.

Network-Turbulence-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

This unique bundle of backgrounds features an unusual pattern that’s been computer generated to fit many modern websites, apps, and other digital designs. It includes 10 different background textures in 5000 x 3333 resolution.

Black-Ink-Backgrounds-Vol.4-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

A natural handmade ink-based background textures collection that you can use to craft many different types of backgrounds, social media posts, posters, book covers, greeting cards, and much more. The bundle includes 10 backgrounds in 6000 x 4000 resolution.

Hand-Crafted-Textures-and-Patterns-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

Another big bundle of subtly textured backgrounds. This pack comes with 26 hand-painted foam textures that highlight the white color. It also includes 12 seamless patterns and Adobe Illustrator files for customizing the backgrounds to your preference.

Glassy-Atom-Array-Backgrounds-1024x682 40+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures design tips

If you’re working on a background for an app landing page or a technology website, this bundle of backgrounds will come in handy. It includes 10 unique abstract backgrounds featuring a futuristic Atom-based design in 5000 x 3333 resolution.

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