50+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures

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 it’s 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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Abstract Canyon Black & White Backgrounds

Abstract Canyon Black & White Backgrounds

This is a collection of beautiful backgrounds featuring canyon-themed designs. It includes 21 different backgrounds in high-resolution PNG files.

You can use these to craft bold and modern backgrounds for posters, websites, social media posts, banners, and much more.

Why This Is A Top Pick

The abstract canyon designs add a certain personality to these backgrounds and it will help create an overall subtle look for your designs. They are suitable for many different types of projects too.

Halftone Liquid Black & White Background Textures

Halftone Liquid Black & White Background Textures

The backgrounds in this bundle are ideal for classic and retro-themed designs. They come with unique halftone textures mixed with a creative liquid design. There are 5 different backgrounds included in this bundle.

Black Smoke On White Background

Black Smoke On White Background

A minimal and subtle black and white background featuring a smoke cloud. This background is suitable for many different designs from presentations to poster designs, advertisements, product promotions, and more.

Halftone Marble Black & White Textures

Halftone Marble Black & White Textures

Another collection of halftone backgrounds with a black and white theme. These backgrounds feature marble liquid-style designs that create a mesmerizing look. There are 5 backgrounds in the pack in JPG format.

Distressed Black & White Backgrounds

Distressed Black & White Backgrounds

You can use these backgrounds to create a vintage-style scene for your product presentations and brand promotions. It features a set of 5 unique black and white backgrounds with distressed designs.

10 Black and White Transparent Grunge Textures

10 Black and White Transparent Grunge Textures

There are 10 high-quality backgrounds in this bundle with grunge and rough textures. They are all available in PNG format and in 6000 x 4000px resolution. These backgrounds are ideal for packaging designs as well as for posters and websites.

Free Paint Strokes Black & White Background

Free Paint Strokes Black & White Background

This is a free background you can use to design a creative scene. It features white paint strokes on a black background. It’s great for artistic presentations and product promotions.

Free Black & White Dirt Background Texture

Free Black & White Dirt Background Texture

This free black and white background features a dark texture with dirt. It’s most suitable for adding rough textures and depth to your designs and illustrations.

Atomic – 30 Abstract B&W Backgrounds

Atomic - 30 Abstract B&W Backgrounds

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

Wall Grunge Texture Backgrounds

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

Grunge SKY Black & White Backgrounds

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.

Black & White Soft Fluid Backgrounds

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Here we have an extensive collection of black and white backgrounds that you can use in different projects. Inside the pack, you’ll get 63 soft fluid circle backgrounds that can come in very handy in your upcoming projects.

Wall Texture Black & White Backgrounds

Wall Texture Black & White Backgrounds

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 B&W Background

Dark Marble B&W Background

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 B&W Background

Slate Texture B&W Background

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.

B&W 3D Wavy Striped Backgrounds

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Next up we have a beautiful collection of abstract 3D wavy striped backgrounds that can be a great addition to your upcoming projects. If you are looking for a black and white background choice that’s subtle and soft, this collection is your sure-fire bet.

Melt – 76 Abstract Black and White Backgrounds

Melt - Abstract Black and White Backgrounds

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 And White Texture Background

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 And White Space Backgrounds

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.

10 Monochrome Striped Waves Backgrounds

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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.

Free Black and White Marble Background

Free Black and White Marble Background

Another free black and white background featuring a liquid marble design. This background is perfect for crafting website headers and posters too. It’s available in JPG format.

Free Rope Black and White Background

Free Rope Black and White Background

This free background features a close-up photo of ropes in a black and white design. It will make a great scene for showcasing various types of products, especially men’s fragrances and other lifestyle products.

10 Black & White Marble Backgrounds

10 Black & White Marble Backgrounds

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

Black and White Space Polygon Backgrounds

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.

Black & White Bokeh Backgrounds

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Drop everything, and get your hands on this collection of Bokeh Noir black and white backgrounds that will give your designs a cinematic appearance in just a couple of seconds. All the textures come in high-resolution, ready-to-print, 300 DPI format.

Black & White Chalk Texture Backgrounds

Black & White chalk Backgrounds

Whether you need a background texture to display your product, banner, logo, presentation, or app design, this massive collection of 62 chalk texture backgrounds has you covered. With so many options to choose from, you’ll always have a background best suited to your needs.

Lines – Abstract Stripes Black & White Backgrounds

Lines - Abstract Stripes Black & White Backgrounds

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

10 Black and White Polygon Backgrounds

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

Subtle Black Layered Backgrounds

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

Black Sand Texture Background

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.

Chaotic Brush Backgrounds

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This collection of 30 handmade brush textures allows you to paint the screen black without getting your hands dirty with the ink. Regardless of the project, you are working on, these backgrounds will be of great use.

Monochrome Agate Backgrounds

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This unique background collection is an ideal choice for creative as well as professional projects. It comes packed with 10 Agate backgrounds, in 4500×3000 pixel resolution, and 300 DPI. Try it out for your next design project!

Diagonal – 24 Rounded Lines Subtle Backgrounds

Diagonal - 24 Rounded Lines Subtle Backgrounds

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 Black & White Particles Backgrounds

Abstract White Particles Backgrounds

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

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

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

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

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

Pen Texture Black & White Background

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Black And White Geometric Background

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.

Seamless Tomato Black & White Backgrounds

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.