Tiger Print Pattern

Make a tiger-style print from tapered dark stripes that come to a point at both ends, some forked and some doubled, on a ground shaded from a light edge colour to a deeper middle colour, or on a flat colour. Set how many stripes run across the repeat, how wide and long they are, how sharply they taper, and how much they wave and lean; the same seed always gives the same pattern. Every stripe stays in its own column, so stripes never cross, and each is shorter than the repeat, so the tile has no seam. Page 2 of the PDF shows the width curve every stripe follows. Download a seamless SVG tile, a background PNG for a phone, desktop, tablet or square post, a 300 DPI PNG or a PDF at full size. Nothing is uploaded.

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How to make a tiger print pattern

1. Choose a preset, or set the number of stripes across, the widest stripe width and the stripe length.
2. Set the taper, the widest part, the waviness and the lean; change the seed for a new arrangement.
3. Choose how many stripes are forked or doubled.
4. Pick the stripe colour and a shaded or flat ground.
5. Download the SVG tile, a background PNG, or the PDF; print at 100% and check the 1 in test square.

What you can use it for

• Phone, desktop and tablet backgrounds
• Website and slide backgrounds (SVG tile)
• Fabric, gift wrap and scrapbook paper
• Costume, mask and face-paint planning sheets
• Party invitations, cards and packaging
• Black-and-white prints for cutting or vinyl

The 14 presets

#	Preset	Stripes across	Widest	Taper	Forked / double	Seamless repeat	Dark share
1	Orange, shaded to cream	11	0.44 in	0.9	2 / 2	8 × 6 in	24.09%
2	Flat orange	11	0.44 in	0.9	2 / 2	8 × 6 in	24.09%
3	Golden, shaded to cream	10	0.42 in	1.1	2 / 1	8 × 6 in	17.64%
4	Dark grey on white	11	0.42 in	0.9	6 / 1	8 × 6 in	23.83%
5	Black on white	11	0.44 in	0.9	2 / 2	8 × 6 in	24.09%
6	Bold few stripes	7	0.72 in	0.8	3 / 0	8 × 6 in	27.82%
7	Many thin stripes	18	0.26 in	1.1	6 / 1	8 × 6 in	20.62%
8	Long sweeping stripes	10	0.4 in	0.9	1 / 1	8 × 6 in	22.48%
9	Short broken stripes	12	0.4 in	0.9	4 / 0	8 × 6 in	12.74%
10	Stripes running across	11	0.44 in	0.9	2 / 2	6 × 8 in	24.09%
11	Black on pink	11	0.42 in	0.9	2 / 0	8 × 6 in	23.4%
12	Navy on teal	11	0.42 in	0.9	3 / 1	8 × 6 in	20.99%
13	Gold on black	11	0.4 in	0.9	3 / 1	8 × 6 in	21.26%
14	Fabric repeat in cm	11	1.3 cm	0.9	2 / 2	24 × 18 cm	23.73%

Each preset only fills in the fields; change any setting afterwards.

Taper: width along the stripe (shape 0.8)

Taper	t = 0.05	t = 0.1	t = 0.25	t = 0.42	t = 0.75	t = 0.9
0.5	53.11%	69.11%	92.77%	100%	77.58%	50.12%
0.9	32.01%	51.42%	87.36%	100%	63.32%	28.84%
1.5	14.98%	33.01%	79.83%	100%	46.69%	12.59%
2.5	4.23%	15.76%	68.7%	100%	28.1%	3.16%

Width as a share of the widest stripe width, t from 0 (top end) to 1 (bottom end). With shape 0.8 the widest point is at t = 0.42; higher taper values give sharper points.

Background sizes (zebra classic repeat, for scale)

Background	Pixels	Area at 96 px per inch	Repeats across × down
Phone 1080 × 1920	1080 × 1920 px	11.25 × 20 in	1.88 × 3.33
Desktop 1920 × 1080	1920 × 1080 px	20 × 11.25 in	3.33 × 1.88
Large screen 2560 × 1440	2560 × 1440 px	26.67 × 15 in	4.44 × 2.5
Square post 1080 × 1080	1080 × 1080 px	11.25 × 11.25 in	1.88 × 1.88
Tablet 2048 × 2732	2048 × 2732 px	21.33 × 28.46 in	3.56 × 4.74

Which tool to use

You want	Use
Tapered tiger-style stripes	Tiger Print Pattern (this page)
Wavy zebra-style stripes	Zebra Print Pattern
Blob camouflage layers	Camo Pattern Generator
Straight stripes at any angle	Stripe Pattern
A grain or noise texture	Seamless Texture Generator

Also handy: the Camo Pattern Generator, the Seamless Texture Generator and the Phone Wallpaper Maker.

Frequently asked questions

How is each stripe shaped?

Each stripe is a centre line with a width that follows one curve: width = W × sin(180° × t^shape)^taper, where t runs from 0 at the top end to 1 at the bottom end, so both ends come to a point. Page 2 of the PDF draws this curve and one stripe made from it; our tests check that every edge point sits at that width from the centre line.

Will the stripes ever cross?

No. Each stripe, with its fork, stays inside its own column with a gap to the next column, and the tool will not draw settings that would break this (it asks you to narrow or straighten the stripes). Our tests check every edge point and every pair of shapes, across the tile edges too.

Will the tile repeat without a seam?

Yes. Stripes that run over an edge of the tile are drawn again from the opposite edge, each stripe is shorter than the repeat, and the shaded ground is the edge colour at the top and bottom of every repeat. Our tests compare 3 × 3 copies of the tile with the pattern drawn once, by pixels.

What are forked and double stripes?

A forked stripe has one tapered branch that leaves its centre line below the middle and heads down to one side. A double stripe is two thinner stripes side by side. You set the share of each from 0 to 1.

What does the dark share mean?

The part of the pattern covered by stripes, counted line by line across the tile (forks count once where they join their stripe). The classic preset is 24.09% dark. Our tests check it against a count of dark pixels.

What size are the background PNGs?

Phone 1080 × 1920, desktop 1920 × 1080, large screen 2560 × 1440, tablet 2048 × 2732 and square 1080 × 1080 pixels, drawn at 96 pixels per inch of the sizes you set.

How is this different from the camo and stripe pattern pages?

The camo generator stacks blob shapes in layers (its tiger-stripe camo style is a camouflage look), and the stripe pattern maker draws straight, evenly spaced stripes. This page draws separate tapered stripes with forks on a shaded ground.

Is it free?

Yes. There is no sign-up, no watermark and no limit.

Is anything uploaded?

No. Everything is drawn by JavaScript in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere.