A decorative grid or stripe background
- 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.
What this rule looks like
Why this rule
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.
- Kind
- Rule
- Section
- Things to avoid
- Group
- Generic-AI aesthetic
- Bucket
- hybrid
- Severity
- warning
- Detector
decorative-grid-background- Since
- v0.17.0