SVG Pattern Generator

What this tool does

SVG Pattern Generator builds small, seamlessly tiling SVG motifs you can use as website backgrounds: polka dots, stripes at several angles, graph-paper grids, checkerboards and cross-hatching. Adjust spacing, colours and opacity, watch the tile repeat live, then copy a ready-to-use CSS background-image rule or the raw SVG pattern markup.

Subtle repeating textures add depth to a page without the weight of a photograph, but hand-tuning a background pattern in CSS gradients or a bitmap image is fiddly to get pixel-perfect. This generator builds the repeat unit as a tiny SVG tile sized so it lines up edge to edge with no visible seam, for five common motif families.

Each motif is drawn with plain shapes: circles for dots, rectangles for stripes and checkers, and short paths for grid lines and cross-hatching. Diagonal motifs use a corner-to-corner line trick that wraps cleanly at 45 and 135 degrees, so the live preview you see tiling in the browser is exactly what the exported CSS will render.

How to use SVG Pattern Generator

1. Choose a pattern Type: dots, stripes, grid, checkerboard or cross-hatch.
2. Set the Tile size, which is the pixel distance the pattern repeats at.
3. For dots, set the Dot radius; for stripes, grid and cross-hatch, set the Line thickness instead.
4. For stripes and cross-hatch, pick an Angle of 0, 45, 90 or 135 degrees.
5. Adjust Opacity, then pick the Shape colour and Background colour.
6. Check the live tiled preview, then copy the CSS background-image rule or the SVG pattern markup.

Tips for better results

• Smaller tile sizes read as a fine texture from a distance, while larger tiles read as a distinct, bold motif; preview both before deciding.
• Low opacity, around 10-25%, keeps a pattern as a quiet background texture that will not fight with text placed on top of it.
• The CSS snippet already includes background-size and background-repeat, so pasting it as-is is usually enough; only background-color needs adding separately if you want transparency.
• The SVG pattern markup defines a reusable <pattern> element, which is handy when you want the texture to fill an arbitrary shape inside a larger inline SVG, not just a rectangular CSS background.

Common use cases

• Subtle section backgrounds on marketing pages that need texture without a photograph.
• Graph-paper or dot-grid backgrounds for design tools, planners or technical documentation.
• Brand-coloured stripes or checkerboards for banners, email headers or social media graphics.
• Filling an arbitrary SVG shape with a repeating texture using the exported <pattern> element.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Setting Line thickness close to the tile size, which fills the whole tile with colour instead of producing a visible line pattern.
• Using a diagonal angle with a background-size that does not match the tile size, which breaks the seamless tiling the generator relies on.
• Choosing a high-contrast shape colour at full opacity behind body text, which hurts reading comfort even though the pattern looks fine on its own.