Board overlay

Axes

Base
  solid · linear 2/3-stop (angle) · radial/corner glow · soft-blob mesh
Hue strategy
  mono · analogous · complementary accent · multicolor
HSB family
  pastel · muted · deep/dark
Filler shape
  dots · rings · blobs/chips · capsules · triangles · plus-signs · contour lines · sine bands · grid
Density
  sparse → dense
Size
  uniform vs power-law
Placement
  uniform scatter · diagonal band · corner-weighted · grid-jitter
Filler color
  same-hue tint · accent hue · multicolor · alpha-only
Opacity
  whisper 4–10% → visible 15–25%
Depth
  crisp vs gradient-soft, layered sizes

## Whisper

A vertical pastel gradient ground carries roughly sixty faint dots at 6–10% opacity — the quietest family in the set.

## Confetti

A near-neutral ground is scattered with about seventy tiny circles, rotated squares and triangles across three related hues.

## Aurora

A flat pastel ground holds four to six large soft-edged gradient blobs that overlap and drift toward one corner, mesh-gradient style.

## Contours

A flat ground is crossed by fourteen thin wavy horizontal lines built from summed sine harmonics, evoking topographic contours.

## Drift

A diagonal two-tone gradient ground carries rotated capsule shapes rejection-sampled into a diagonal band across the canvas.

## Bubbles

A top-left radial gradient ground carries a power-law scatter of circles — a few large, more medium, many small — mixing filled discs with stroked rings.

## Terrazzo

A near-neutral ground is covered in about fifty-five small irregular polygon chips across four related colors, like stone terrazzo.

## Graph

A pale ground is ruled into a 24px grid, with a few plus-mark intersections and small accent dots — graph paper.

## Waves

A horizontal gradient ground is layered with six translucent sine-wave bands, phase-shifted and stacked toward the bottom third like dunes.

## Dusk

A deep vertical gradient ground holds large soft gradient blobs and a faint horizon glow low in the frame — moody, no small shapes.

## Starfield

A dark radial ground is scattered with about ninety tiny stars, a handful haloed and brighter, plus two faint nebula blobs.

## Slate

A flat dark ground carries the same wavy contour lines as Contours, with small accent dots resting on the lines — dark topographic.