Tylify is a seamless pattern maker that's available as a Figma plugin and a standalone web app. Pattern elements can be vector or raster images. Export formats include SVG, PNG and CSS with embedded base64 SVG.
@dan_robins Thanks, Dan! I used to dread making patterns too, that's why I made Tylify. Thanks for checking it out :)
I'm curious, as a designer are you more excited about the standalone app or the Figma plugin?
@dan_robins In the standalone app, if you press the "Download" button it shows you previews of your pattern on a blanket, pillow and mug. Given the upcoming festive season, I think adding wrapping paper would be worthwhile!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and ideas, Dan!
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This is super cool! But I can't find the terms and conditions info. Is it free for commercial use? or POD?
@maxrights Hi Madhan. Yes, commercial use (including POD) is allowed. More print-on-demand tools coming soon, stay tuned! :)
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What a great experience! I accidentally clicked into the tool when first looking at this profile and was immediately presented with the ability to play around with a randomly generated pattern, which was super easy to manipulate on mobile! 👌
@n_russell I'm so glad you found it easy to jump right it :) Thank you for the kind words, Nick!
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It's awesome. I have spent a lot of time in the past doing seamless patterns. This would have been a huge time saver. I will definitely use it in the future. The best of it all is that it accepts SVG and export in SVG.
Just one thing I found a bit confusing was changing the background colour. Great work mate.
@jsteneros Thanks, Johan! You and me, both. I used to dread seamless patterns so much because making them was such a tedious process!
First-class SVG support was a priority for this project. Export as an SVG and display the pattern with pixel-perfect quality at any size 😎
Thanks for the feedback about changing the background color. The approach is a indeed a bit different from popular tools like Canva. I'll reconsider the way it's done and see if I can make it more intuitive.
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@webdevluca looks really handy! I was just on Figam this morning looking for plugins to create some nice background for product screenshots
@james_hoss Thanks, James! I'm afraid the plugin doesn't work in Figjam at the moment. I briefly investigated the matter and couldn't find a way to tile an image like you can in Figma.
I'm an entrepreneur and designer and often times need a seamless pattern but just avoid it because it don't want to go through all the trouble in Illustrator. This is super simple to use and would work in just about any situation. You mentioned Figma, so I'll just say I'm way more excited about the stand-alone website as I don't use Figma.
@heydustinlee Hi, Dustin! I'm glad to hear that Tylify will be of use to you. The standalone app is convenient because it's always just a new tab away. However, there a few things the standalone doesn't do as well as the Figma plugin, namely:
Complex SVG exports - the plugin is able to leverage Figma's SVG engine
Resumability - there is currently no way to export a pattern as a "project" (think .psd and .ai) and resume work on it later. With the Figma plugin, the elements live in your Figma document so you are able to go back and edit the pattern whenever you like
If you ever run into these issues, you might want to give the Figma plugin a go. Thanks for checking Tylify out and sharing your thoughts. Your feedback is invaluable.
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The use cases for this are endless! We used to print custom pattern notebooks for clients at a previous job of mine and the pattern creator we us we used for this was clunky as anything. Wish we had this more seamless experience back then for sure!
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