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Source. The storefront palette is exact, read out of textures.neocities.org's own common.css and gallery.css: #ff678d field, #ff4876 text, #ff1a53 in a border: 3px double, a #7fe1dd teal, Times New Roman throughout, and links that go both underlined and bold on hover so the line reflows. Its catalog size, 3,867 textures across 17 categories, is counted from its own manifest.json and checked against the per-category file lists rather than taken from site copy. The mixed and case-sensitive extensions in one folder were counted from real category pages. The hand-tuned background-position-x values of 3px and 11px, and the fact that a theme is a whole swapped stylesheet two declarations long loaded through an @import chain, are from heart143.neocities.org's live stylesheets. Everything is in reference/1-decoration/tiled-background/.
The comparison figures were measured, not repeated. heart143's eight production tiles at 874 bytes total, marble.gif at 2,484 bytes and circuit.gif at 4,610 bytes from cyber.dabamos.de, and wood--095C.png at 406,214 bytes from TextureTown, were all measured from the downloaded files. The two dabamos tiles are genuinely GIF87a. doffy's inline background was decoded from the data:image/bmp;base64 URI in its live stylesheet and is a 16 by 16, one-bit BMP of 126 bytes from 168 base64 characters; its bitmap is transcribed pixel for pixel into this plate.
Not one reference tile is shipped here. No source in that folder states a license, and TextureTown's own textures are contributed by third parties it does not own, so its invitation to download is site copy and not a grant. The 42 tiles on this page were drawn and encoded for this plate by scripts/make-tiles.mjs, and their byte counts are the sizes of the files this page actually served you. They are real GIF87a: a single frame with no transparency emits no extension block, so the file conforms, and the encoder walks the block structure of its own output and refuses to stamp 87a if any extension introducer is present. It uses a genuine LZW compressor rather than the uncompressed-LZW writer the 88x31 and blinkie plates ship, because an uncompressed 64 by 64 runs about 2.5 KB and arguing that a kilobyte fills a screen with a file that is only small because compression was skipped would be a lie told with true numbers.
Deliberately absent. When tiling started or stopped being common, what share of pages used a tiled background, and who made the first seamless tile. None of that is in these captures. The 28.8k column is arithmetic from a line rate of roughly 3.5 KB a second, labeled as arithmetic on the plate, and is not a timing anybody recorded at the time. The near-match between my eight tiles and heart143's eight is called a coincidence because that is what it is.