200+ Free Halloween Background Patterns to Collect

With barely a month left before Halloween, we decided to round up some interesting Halloween background patterns that you can use for both web and print designs. These are tiling patterns, meaning, they indefinitely repeat either horizontally or vertically. Use them for a website dedicated to Halloween celebration or for your party design needs.

Using repeating, tiled patterns as a background in a web page layout is a popular design technique. Using tiling patterns are visually appealing and requires less time to load when viewing web pages. Lately, seamless patterns have been popular for print designs as well. You can see patterns as background for party invitation cards, business cards, posters, brochures, among other things.

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These will surely look great as background for your party invitation, gift tags, party bunting, party poster announcements, etc. The first part are pattern packs–several patterns contained in one zipped file–that you can download and use for free while the second part are individual patterns that you can download from colourlovers.com. Click on the title of the patterns to download the Halloween patterns that you want. Enjoy these freebies!

I. HALLOWEEN BACKGROUND: PHOTOSHOP  PATTERN PACKS

The next entries are Photoshop pattern packs. However, some of these sets come with a ready-to-use printable papers. To use the PAT file, you need to have an Adobe Photoshop program. To download the set that you want, simply click on the title for each entry (in blue text). Enjoy!

01: Seamless Halloween Patterns: 16 Designs to Collect

Here is a set of 16 seamless Halloween patterns that you can download for free. These patterns come in orange and purple colors and feature popular Halloween elements.

02:  16 Seamless Halloween Patterns

A set of 16 seamless Halloween patterns that you can download for free. These patterns come in orange and purple colors and feature popular Halloween elements. For example, you can find Jack O’ lanterns, pumpkins, witch hats, haunted castles, and many more!

03:  Free Purple Halloween Patterns

A set of 12 Halloween-themed seamless patterns in purple/violet and black color scheme.

04:  Free Halloween Patterns in Orange and Black

A set of 12 seamless patterns in an orange and black color scheme featuring Halloween designs.

05:  25 Halloween Photoshop Patterns

Inside the zip file is an image pack of every seamless pattern for use in Photoshop.

06:  Happy Little Halloween Patterns

Printable Halloween designs featuring happy little pumpkins, candy corn, and other Halloween symbols.

07:  Orange and Purple Halloween Patterns Pack

13 Hi-Res Halloween Patterns free for personal or commercial use.

08:  Halloween I: Scary Patterns

13 spooky patterns for Photoshop featuring, flying witches, bats, and other Halloween elements.

09:  Halloween II Patterns

This second set of Halloween themed pattern backgrounds feature various scary Halloween objects such as zombies, skeletons, witches, etc.

10: Halloween III Patterns

The third set includes 12 patterns useful for your Halloween design projects.

11:  Horrific Halloween Patterns Pack

Here are 5 horrific patterns great as background for your Halloween-related design projects.

12:  Cute Halloween Pumpkin Patterns

There are 8 patterns mostly pumpkin in orange and black background.

13:  Halloween Pattern Backgrounds

This set consists of 12 cute patterns featuring pumpkins and Jack O’lanterns

14:  Halloween Papers: Cats, Bats, and Pumpkins

Here are six scary textures for your greeting cards, invitations, scrap compositions or background blog or personal page.

15:  Free Dark Halloween Patterns

This free set includes 12 high-quality JPEG files, plus the Photoshop PAT file.

16:  Halloween Pattern No. 2

Here is a fun pack of patterns featuring ten orange patterns featuring pumpkins and ghosts. The file that you may download is a Photoshop PAT file.

II. VECTOR HALLOWEEN BACKGROUND PATTERNS

The next few entries are editable vector files. You need to have a vector editing program like Illustrator and Corel to be able to use these Halloween patterns.

16:  Free Vector Halloween Background Patterns

A free editable vector file containing 6 cute Halloween background patterns. These patterns seamlessly tile so you can use them in large-format designs.

17:  Halloween Cartoon Background

A set of 9 cartoon looking background patterns for Halloween. It also includes argyle as well as stripes pattern in Halloween colors.

18:  Vector Halloween Cartoon Background

Here is the second set of vector patterns featuring cartoon looking Halloween objects.

19:  Stars and Skulls Halloween Pattern Set

A set of editable vector pattern featuring skulls and stars designs.

20:  Abstract Orange Halloween Pattern Pack

Black and orange are is the most popular combination for Halloween designs. This color combination is of course inspired by pumpkins and the dark associated with the Halloween season. This pack of patterns features geometric designs such as zigzags and argyles.

21:  Colorful Patterns for Halloween

Another popular color combination for Halloween is violet and black. Thus, this pack of patterns features cute Halloween symbols such as pumpkins, bats, and cobwebs in a purple and black palette.

22: Skull Bones Pattern

Seamless Halloween patterns featuring skulls and bones as well as geometric pattern stripes in orange and black color combination. These patterns are in vector format.

23:  Trick or Treat Vector Patterns

This set of free vector designs include two patterns and two card designs for your trick and treating needs this Halloween.

If you like these patterns, you might also want to check out our printable free Halloween cards.

III.  15  SINGLE HALLOWEEN BACKGROUND PATTERNS

To download the pattern that you want, simply click on the preview image and you will be directed to a page where you can select the size or resolution that you need. You can also change the color scheme of the pattern if you wish.  These patterns are ready to use and may be downloaded as an image PNG file. You may also download the PNG pattern and use it in Photoshop to fill a bigger canvas.