50% Gray Pattern

Seamless Tartan

As of: October 17, 2026

50% Gray

This webpage uses the original 8 × 8-pixel 50% Gray pattern as its repeating background tile. The pattern alternates black and white pixels in a checkerboard arrangement, producing an even fifty-percent coverage of each color.

Download the original 8 × 8 BMP pattern

Illustration for Re-Creation

The illustration below enlarges the original 8 × 8 pattern so a human can recreate it cell by cell. Each numbered square represents one original pixel.

Enlarged 8 by 8 illustration showing how to recreate the 50 percent gray pattern pixel by pixel

Download the demonstration illustration (GIF)

Detail	Value
Tile file	`50_Percent_Gray_8x8.bmp`
Native dimensions	8 × 8 pixels
Colors	Black (`#000000`) and white (`#FFFFFF`)
Structure	Alternating checkerboard; Row 1 begins with white, Row 2 begins with black
Status	Preserved copy created from the reconstructed Windows 3.x pattern collection