Art Deco and Memphis pattern generator

Two modern styles, sixty years apart. Choose Deco fans, a sunburst or Memphis confetti, how many fit across the tile and how many rings, rays or shapes each one has, and export a seamless pattern as SVG, PNG or CSS.

Open in the generator How it works

Rows of gold and navy Art Deco scallop fans on a navy ground, each fan with rings and rays

Streamlined, then playful

Art Deco, which took its name from a Paris exhibition of 1925, loved the machine age: sunbursts, stepped skylines, chevrons and rows of scallop fans in gold and black, in cinemas, ocean liners and hotel lobbies. The Memphis Group, a Milan design collective of the early 1980s, answered with the opposite spirit: squiggles, confetti, dots and half-circles in bright flat colors scattered on a pale ground.

Both are flat, graphic and made of simple shapes, which makes them suit a seamless generator well.

How the generator builds them

A fan is a half-disc of rings and rays, laid in rows that overlap like scales, each fan hiding the ones behind it. A sunburst is a quarter-disc cut into wedges of alternating colors, set at alternating corners of a checkerboard of cells, so that the quarters join into rays that fan across the tile. Memphis fills each cell with a few random shapes — squiggles, zigzags, triangles, circles, half-discs, dots and plus signs — each rotated and placed at random.

All three are built on a lattice that wraps around the tile, so they repeat exactly.

What you can adjust

Style — Deco fans, sunburst or Memphis.
Fans across, sunbursts across or cells across — how many fit across the tile.
Rings and rays, rays or shapes per cell — how detailed each one is.
Line weight — thin or heavy lines.
Other confetti — a new scatter of Memphis shapes.
Colors — a ground and up to three tints; any palette.