Ceramic and porcelain tiles for walls and floors

Tiles are a grid, and the grid is the design: format, grout width and finish decide whether a wall reads calm or busy. This guide covers the tile families in the library — ceramic, porcelain, mosaics, terracotta — with every texture measured at its real-world repetition scale.

The tile families

Glossy ceramic — reflective and bright; classic on interior walls. Matte porcelain — the workhorse: larger formats, muted colours, floors and façades. Metro / subway tiles — small bricks with staggered joints. Mosaics — small squares and hexagons with lively chips. Terracotta — warm unglazed reds and oranges. Hexagon and geometric patterns — feature floors and feature walls.

Grout and format decide the read

A 300 × 600 mm tile with a 3 mm joint reads very differently from 100 × 100 mm with a 2 mm joint — the grid frequency is what the eye catches first. Every texture page lists its measured repetition size so you can match the real format; the repeat preview shows the grout as it will tile.

Keeping large grids believable

When a tile wall runs across several metres, keep the repetition size true and let the grout lines land slightly off-axis to the camera if your reference shows it — perfectly axis-aligned grids look generated. See the scale guide for the mapping recipe.