Meet Repper

Meet Repper

🧠  What you’ll learn
  • What is Repper, exactly?
  • Find you way around the app and learn what it can do
  • How Repper compares to other pattern-making solutions

What’s Repper, exactly?

Repper is an online tool for designing and managing patterns, best suited for geometry-based, production-ready patterns.
So… that’s lot to take in 🤯 Let’s break it down.

An online tool

This means it runs straight in the browser, and that has some big benefits:
  • No install needed: No installation files, never a need to update your software
  • Always a backup: Your data is stored safely on our servers, just in case your computer breaks or gets stolen
  • Access from any computer or tablet: Want to design on tablet and export on laptop? No problem! Show your designs on a friend’s computer. Easy peasy!
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Manage your pattern collections

Repper will help you keep your work organized while you design. You can group your work in collections – and there is no limit, so go wild 😉
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Each collection holds a number of designs you’ve made, which you can review, reorder, favorite, delete… and export of course!
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💁‍♂️  Learn all about collections in our Help Centre
We’ll get to creating and managing collections later in the course. Already curious, visit our help articles View Collections and Manage Collections.
 
 
🔑  Key Takeaways
Patterns represent one of humanity's oldest and most universal forms of visual communication. They cross cultural boundaries while celebrating what makes each culture unique and are a visual language that connects us all across time and place.
🤔  Reflection exercise
As you begin your pattern-making journey, consider that you're joining a conversation that's been ongoing for 100,000 years. What unique voice will you bring to this ancient art form?
📚  Further reading
This is just a brief introduction highlighting some of the classic patterns throughout history. If you want to learn more, I can recommend the entertaining book Patternalia or the more comprehensive The Chronology of Pattern (non-affiliate links).