Make pattern

A repeating pattern of circles, triangles, hexagons and more, in your colors, at the size you need. Nothing to upload — it is drawn here in the tab.

How it works
  1. Press Start. Nothing goes in — what you make is drawn from the settings alone.
  2. Set it in the settings column and watch the preview change as you go.
  3. “Make pattern” draws it full size on your device and hands it to you as a download.

About Pattern maker

Pattern maker repeats one shape — circles, triangles, hexagons, half and quarter circles, lines — across a grid in your colors, for a background, a print or a texture, at any size.

The first color is the background; every shape takes one of the others, mixed across the grid. Shapes across sets how many fit along the long side, and Shape size how much of its cell each one fills — at 100% they touch. Filled or Outline, with a line width for outlines, and Rotation turns the whole grid.

Turn at random gives each shape a random quarter turn. On squares it changes nothing; on half and quarter circles and lines it is what makes a maze of arcs and diagonals out of a plain grid, the oldest trick in pattern design. Offset rows shifts every other row by half a shape, as bricks are laid. Variation reshuffles the colors and the turns, and the same number always gives the same pattern.

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