Textura

Why we built the tool

In many projects, we wanted to use light, elegant backgrounds – a fine grid, subtle dots or a discreet line pattern. However, this wish often ended up either in external image files or in complex SVG code. This was too time-consuming, too inflexible and, above all, not performant enough for us.

Textura was born out of the desire to create such patterns directly with CSS – without additional files, without high loading times. CSS offers an amazing number of possibilities for generating graphic patterns – you just have to combine them cleverly. Our aim was to translate these possibilities into an intuitive tool that brings design and code together.

We wanted to create a tool that is suitable for design experiments as well as for productive use – fast, flexible and with direct control over the visual result.

Why the tool is important and practical

Patterns are an effective design element: they bring structure to surfaces, create visual depth and can draw attention in a targeted manner. At the same time, modern websites should be light and performant – and this is where the conflict often lies: images bloat the project, SVGs are not always easy to adapt and manual creation with CSS is time-consuming.

Textura closes this gap. The tool makes it easy to create repeating patterns directly with CSS – without any external resources. This keeps pages lean and fast, which is particularly important for responsive layouts, mobile-first approaches or performance-driven projects.

Textura also brings a new level of control: you decide the size, spacing, colors and even the opacity of the pattern. This turns a simple background into a subtle design element that shows character without pushing itself into the foreground. Incidentally, the dotted background in the header of this page also comes from Textura.

How the tool works

Textura offers you a choice of five different pattern types:

• Vertical lines
• Horizontal lines
• Dots (points)
• Grid
• Concentric Circles (circles)

You simply select a pattern and adjust it using interactive sliders: the size of the elements, the spacing between them, the background color, the color of the pattern and its opacity. All changes have an immediate effect on the preview, so you can adjust your design in real time.

In the background, Textura generates a complete CSS background pattern that you can copy with one click. The code is based on background-image with repeating-linear-gradient, radial-gradient or cleverly combined CSS tricks – all ready-to-use, without dependencies or additions.

This turns an idea into a realizable, scalable background in seconds – and you retain full control at all times.