Suggestions for background

The following packages have something in common with the package background. The packages are ordered in decreasing similarity.

Package decorule: Decorative swelled rule using font character
Package fancypar: Decoration of individual paragraphs
Package longfbox: Draw framed boxes with standard CSS attributes that can break over multiple pages
Package thmbox: Decorate theorem statements
Package contour: Print a coloured contour around text
Package shadowtext: Produce text with a shadow behind it
Package shadethm: Theorem environments that are shaded
Package colorframed: Fix color problems with the package framed
Package shadow: Drop shadows for boxes
Package pagegrid: Print page grid in background
Package boites: Boxes that may break across pages
Package framed: Breakable framed and shaded boxes
Package xwatermark: Graphics and text watermarks on selected pages
Package aeb-tilebg: AeB Tiling Backgrounds
Package pst-vectorian: Printing ornaments
Package froufrou: Fancy section separators
Package sectionbreak: LaTeX support for section breaks
Package gridpapers: Graph paper backgrounds and color schemes
Package gradback: Gradient backgrounds for dvips output
Package bidipagegrid: Bidi-aware page grid in background
Package multicolrule: Decorative rules between columns
Package mdframed: Framed environments that can split at page boundaries
Package niceframe: Support for fancy frames
Package bidicontour: Bidi-aware coloured contour around text
Package bidishadowtext: Bidi-aware shadow text
Package fadingimage: Add full width fading pictures at the top or bottom of a page
Package magicwatermark: An easy and flexible way to set watermarks
Package attachfile2: Attach files into PDF
Package attachfile: Attach arbitrary files to a PDF document
Package pdfmarginpar: Generate marginpar-equivalent PDF annotations
Package repltext: Control how text gets copied from a PDF file