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Comment by Minor49er

> I’m not hip enough to know if this style has been assigned a pithy label, but I do enjoy it. At the same time, I find it frustrating — because as far as I can tell (the lack of examples I have seen in the wild supports this theory) there isn’t an easy way to replicate these illustrations with SVGs

The term the author is looking for is "dithering". CSS-Tricks explains this on their page "Grainy Gradients" using the same technique:

https://css-tricks.com/grainy-gradients/

There's also a decent alternative to doing this with CSS, though it's applied to the entire image:

https://github.com/tomren1/dither-with-css

parent Minor49er 2 years ago

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