Sparkle Pattern Design

Introducing Sparkle

This simplified pattern design takes just two elements from my Dingbats Pattern Design, adds a grey drop shadow and hey presto! I think I prefer it to the Dingbats design.

Reusing The Dingbats

Each of the dingbats sits within a square. I used a grid of 2 x 2 subdivided into 4 x 4 squares. The additional element was to add horizontal and vertical crossbars, without these there would be an awkward join between a rectangular shape and a circle.

Colour Combinations

Experimenting with different colour combinations I saved the most interesting as pattern repeats, swatches and squares for Instagram.

Testing The Pattern Repeat

The full-screen versions use actual pattern repeats, set to repeat using my CSS style sheet. Meaning I didn’t need large images taking up extra time to download. The scale of the dingbats can be altered too, again using the CSS style sheet.