A decorative grid or stripe background
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Rule · bucket: hybrid · severity: warning · detector: decorative-grid-background · since: v0.17.0
Section: Things to avoid
Group: Generic-AI aesthetic

Forbidden:
  Faint grid lines, dot grids or repeating diagonal stripes filling the space behind content

Instead:
  A plain surface. Keep grids for what is measured or placed on them: a canvas, a map, a chart.

A grid says "this is a workspace". Behind a paragraph it is noise at the one contrast level that makes text harder to read without being visible enough to mean anything.