TailwindCSS Background Patterns

Inspired by CSS Background Patterns by MagicPattern and used by RelayForms

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Demo

See a live demo of all background patterns here: Live demo

Installation

Add the tailwindcss-bg-patterns plugin to your project:

# Install using npm
npm install --save-dev tailwindcss-bg-patterns

# Install using yarn
yarn add -D tailwindcss-bg-patterns

# Install using pnpm
pnpm add -D tailwindcss-bg-patterns

Usage

// tailwind.config.js
{
  theme: { // defaults to these values
    patterns: {
        opacities: {
            100: "1",
            80: ".80",
            60: ".60",
            40: ".40",
            20: ".20",
            10: ".10",
            5: ".05",
        },
        sizes: {
            1: "0.25rem",
            2: "0.5rem",
            4: "1rem",
            6: "1.5rem",
            8: "2rem",
            16: "4rem",
            20: "5rem",
            24: "6rem",
            32: "8rem",
        }
    }
  },
  plugins: [
    require('tailwindcss-bg-patterns'),
  ],
}

Background Patterns

Included are the following patterns:

• Lines (pattern-lines)
• Vertical Lines (pattern-vertical-lines)
• Diagonal Lines (pattern-diagonal-lines)
• Rectangles (pattern-rectangles)
• Rhombus (pattern-rhombus)
• Dots (pattern-dots)
• Boxes (pattern-boxes)
• Cross (pattern-cross)
• Zigzag (pattern-zigzag)
• Zigzag 3D (pattern-zigzag-3d)
• Isometric (pattern-isometric)
• Wavy (pattern-wavy)
• Triangles (pattern-triangles)
• Moon (pattern-moon)
• Paper (pattern-paper)

Utilities

The plugin provides utility classes to control the foreground and background colors (based on your theme colors) as well as opacity and sizing (can be controlled in your theme, too):

Opacity: pattern-opacity-80 applies opacity of 0.8

By default the plugin comes with the following options for opacity: pattern-opacity-100, pattern-opacity-80, pattern-opacity-60, pattern-opacity-40, pattern-opacity-20, pattern-opacity-10, pattern-opacity-5x

Size: pattern-size-8 applies a size of 2rem

By default the plugin comes with the following options for size: pattern-size-1, pattern-size-2, pattern-size-4, pattern-size-6, pattern-size-8, pattern-size-16, pattern-size-20, pattern-size-24, pattern-size-32

Color: pattern-indigo-600 (foreground) and pattern-bg-white (background)

Colors will be extracted from your theme.

Example

Applying the isometric background pattern to a div:

<div
  class="w-56 h-56 pattern-isometric pattern-indigo-600 pattern-bg-transparent pattern-opacity-60 pattern-size-8"
></div>

Which results in: