QUIET BACKGROUNDS FOR VS CODE
Collected 2026-09-15

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Five photographs are listed by Wikimedia Commons as pre-2017-06-05 Unsplash CC0 releases. This is not a claim that current Unsplash photos are CC0.

Coastal Dunes was released into the public domain by its author. See each source page for the recorded license.

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mist-forest.jpg
Author: James Bloedel j_bloedel
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Misty_Mountains_(Unsplash_zR40wedS1aQ).jpg
License: CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en
Published: 2017-03-16
Resolution: 6000 x 3376
SHA-256: 58e8e769f693608dbb2fd2a7adb14f22744094b9b10a993219dd88ece0c2189e


snow-lake.jpg
Author: adrian aows
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fresh_snow_at_Trillium_Lake_(Unsplash).jpg
License: CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en
Published: 2016-11-29
Resolution: 5000 x 4000
SHA-256: d1a4f0595f4daac3e93ef4da34151236d15d92a9947e4ccac7a151594cd4314d


cloud-mountain.jpg
Author: Thomas Kelley thkelley
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Misty_Mountains_in_Telluride_(Unsplash).jpg
License: CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en
Published: 2015-08-18
Resolution: 5472 x 3648
SHA-256: 6c0054a5f5080c28e6377df654d2a687ac785f372777ea225b72bff66473ba11


nordic-mist.jpg
Author: Torbjorn Sandbakk torbjs
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Misty_Mountains_in_Norway_(Unsplash).jpg
License: CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en
Published: 2017-02-17
Resolution: 2300 x 1535
SHA-256: 808241f0db932571fec066e5322293486021d211a267b59031189bad7d3b6ffd


quiet-shore.jpg
Author: Jason Patrick Schuller jasonpatricksc
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Over_the_Ocean_(Unsplash).jpg
License: CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en
Published: 2017-02-26
Resolution: 3811 x 2144
SHA-256: 08e39cdd2489d1c17aa4ed6142b409a9c3ce3a4e197d3a409ae699e989197834


coastal-dunes.jpg
Author: Jelson25
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oregon_Dunes_Near_Coos_Bay.jpg
License: Public domain https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Published: 2009-07-27
Resolution: 4752 x 2163
SHA-256: f7ba8ae915b004d394ab7e20155e80aecdc234431910afdf236ac84876a50d02