Make seamless patterns from one turning tile

The Truchet tile maker is a new tool from the pattern library. It fills a grid with one simple tile, turned a different way from place to place, and the turns make the pattern.

Samples to start from

• Generating…Quarter arcs in a checkerboardOpen with these settings
• Generating…Mirrored triangles from a seedOpen with these settings
• Generating…Straight chamfers in stripesOpen with these settings

What you get

• Four tiles: quarter arcs, straight chamfers, diagonal lines and diagonal triangles
• Random, mirrored, checkerboard, stripe and diagonal wave layouts
• A seamless repeat, as SVG or PNG
• A printable PDF with one repeat at true size and a full sheet of repeats

Seeds

Random layouts come from a seed, so the same seed always gives the same pattern. Your browser remembers your last seed, but links don't carry it.