Custom tool for generating dithered images

Overview
Year
2026
Role
Product design / Implementation
Tools
Cursor
At work we're exploring a new design style that uses dithered gradients as textures. Our marketing designer created a first batch of dithered vectors that we were using in the product, but I quickly realized we needed to create more, with specific shapes and texture sizes.
Initially asked him if he could create a new batch, but I realized this wouldn't really scale, since he'd be bombarded by requests all the time, so instead I decided to create a tool that allowed us to do exactly that.
You can give the tool an image with a gradient, with the shapes you want in the position you want, and Ditherator will create a dithered version of it that you can tweak to your liking, in threshold and scale of the effect. Quick, easy, and you can get the exact shape you want. Oh! And you can download the image as an .svg, so you always have vector files ready to go.