Engraved: an etching-style line gradient in ink and off-white
Engraved gives a gradient the look of a banknote or an old book plate. The Engraving treatment redraws a Graphite Mesh as parallel lines at Treatment angle 15, set 9 px apart by Cell size, and each line thickens where the tone underneath is darker and bends slightly as it passes through it. Treatment colors is Duotone, so the lines are an inky violet-black Dark color on a warm off-white Light color, and only those two colors remain.
Make it yours
Space the lines out
Cell size is 9, the gap between lines in pixels. At 16 the engraving opens into bold stripes that hold up at small sizes; at 5 it becomes a fine etching that needs a large hero to show its detail.
Rotate the cut
Treatment angle sets the direction of the lines: 0 gives horizontal rules, 90 vertical ones, and values near 45 feel like a classic engraved portrait. Switching Treatment to Crosshatch layers extra directions into the shadows.
FAQ
What is the difference between Engraving and Crosshatch?
Engraving uses one set of parallel lines that grow thicker and bend with the tone. Crosshatch keeps its lines straight and adds up to four hatch directions as the gradient darkens, so shadows turn into a mesh of crossing strokes, closer to a pen drawing than a printing plate.
How it works
Pick a starting point
Start from one of 28 looks such as Soft Mesh, Eclipse Rays or Riso Halftone, or choose a gradient type and one of 24 palettes.
Tune the gradient
Adjust scale, distortion, swirl and softness, add grain, glass panes or glass tiles, a dot, grid or line overlay, a second blended layer or a treatment such as halftone or pixel sort, and switch animation on with its own speed.
Preview and use it
See the gradient in landing page, card, mobile and sign up layouts, then sign in with a free UX Pilot account to use it on the canvas or export it.