Board Background Swatches

96 procedural candidates — base layer × filler layer. Toggle the board overlay to judge them under content.

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.