The problem with most pattern generators we talked about so far is that customization possibilities aren’t exactly endless. Obviously, the good part is that even my grandmother can use them, but with a little bit of training, I am sure she can also learn to create the tiles of a pattern pixel by pixel, enjoying the feeling offered by the complete control…
… offered by today’s tool, namely Stripe Designer! What can be done with it? Backgrounds, of course, and what you’re losing by only being able to create black and white patterns is won back by the possibility to edit the 3X3 pixels tile that is used to generate the big pattern (3X3 is default setting, but you can go as far as 32 for each of the X and Y values, and the pattern doesn’t have to be square, either!).
More than just creating patterns, you can test them with one of the (only) six backgrounds available, but the image you’ll download is a XxY(3X3 up to 32X32) pixels GIF file with the pattern you customized. Each pattern can be exported as a line of code (something like “{x:3,y:3,p:[[2,0],[0,2]]}”), so you can have your own patterns collection at hand anytime. This may seem like a primitive approach, but it gets the job done easily, and that’s what really matters, after all…
At last, you should also take a look at the library, currently containing 175 items. If you think that designing small patterns can’t be really fun or the results can’t be that interesting… take a look at the Stripe Designer library, and then get back here! 😉
Compatibility: Stripe Designer worked well with IE, Opera, Maxthon, Firefox, and even Google Chrome, so I guess it should work with any major or less-major browser you throw at it…
