subtlepatterns

Subtle patterns download tool

Just a simple tool that can:

• get actual patterns meta in JSON format from subtlepatterns website
• download the patterns, unpack them and generate meta file with files and palette information.

The patterns are under CC BY-SA 3.0 license. So play nicely and leave a credit when you use them. The generated meta files contain the meta from the website (author and link (if any), as well as description)

Read FAQ at subtlepatterns.com for more.

Usage

To use as a lib (why would you need that? Whatever...) you can simply require the package (there is a bin.js file, see it for usage example). The methods the lib exposes are promise-based, but the API may be imperfect...

To download the patterns (files) and build JSON with meta - install package globally via npm (npm install -g subtlepatterns) and run subtlepatterns in command line under any directory you have write access - and the files should be downloaded to patterns directory under current working directory.

Adding a --colors parameter will also download palette for the colors.

List

Completely different mode is running subtlepatterns list - it will simply skim through all the patterns pages, grab the meta and output it as array into stdout.

Of course, you can pipe the output via something like subtlepatterns list > patterns.json.