Crosshatch: navy cross marks that shade an image like pen and ink
Crosshatch draws one small plus-shaped mark per cell and scales it with darkness, so shadows fill with heavy crosses while highlights are left almost blank. The ink is a blue-black navy on cream paper, the Cell size is a tight 9, and Contrast is raised to 20 to separate light from dark more firmly. From a distance it reads like the hatching in a technical illustration, and up close the pattern is pleasingly mechanical.
Make it yours
Try other mark shapes
Cross is one of six options under Shape. Switch to Lines and the image is rendered as horizontal strokes of varying thickness, like an engraving, or to Diamond for a softer, woven texture in the same navy ink.
Flip it to chalk on slate
Swap the two colors: set Light color to the navy and Dark color to the cream. With a dark paper the marks are sized by brightness instead, so highlights get the heavy crosses, like chalk on a blackboard.
FAQ
Does the Crosshatch effect work on logos and illustrations?
It works best on images with a range of tones, such as photos and shaded renders, because the mark size needs gradients to vary. A flat logo turns into a uniform field of identical crosses with a hard edge. If that is what you have, add some Blur, around 20, to create soft transitions at the edges before the marks are drawn.
How it works
Upload an image
Add a PNG, JPG or WebP up to 20 MB and keep the original ratio or crop to 1:1, 4:5, 3:2, 16:9 or 9:16.
Choose a mode
ASCII with 8 character sets including Braille, Blocks, Binary, Matrix and your own characters; Dither with 14 algorithms; or Shapes with pixels, dots, lines and diamonds.
Style and use it
Set a palette such as 1-bit, Game Boy, Terminal or CGA, add scanlines, bloom or grain, then sign in with a free UX Pilot account to use it on the canvas or export it.