Getting started

Tiling mode

Select between the five traditional Girih tiles and the additional Penrose diamond and Barrel tiles and start tiling. Tiling mode defaults to a plain display style to simplify tile recognition.

Styling mode

Choose between different color presets or customize the display style.

Svg export

Export your pattern as vector images for further processing and resolution independend printing.

File dialog

Save and load your patterns to your local browser storage.

Use these keyboard shortcuts for efficient tiling:

Pinch on the trackpad — Zoom at the pointer
Two-finger scroll — Pan canvas
Q, W, Spacebar — Rotate mouse tile
1-7 — Select tile
Backspace — Delete last tile
E — Eraser tool
-,+ — Zoom
Arrow keys — Scroll canvas
Tab — Toggle palette

About

© 2014 by Nikolaus Baumgarten
Girih tiles were historically used to create ornaments in Islamic architecture. Read more about Girih tiles on Wikipedia

This tool is free to use. You may use the resulting images in any way you like. Please include a link to this tool as your source.

I am curious to see what you create! Contact me at nik@nikkki.net