The Heart Pattern You’re Seeing Everywhere

Behold, the cute design that’s taking over the internet.

Kristin Merrilees
4 min readMay 2, 2021
Vellarmi

The layered heart pattern. It’s everywhere, and I do mean everywhere. On sweaters on Instagram and Pinterest, as people’s iPhone wallpapers, and on designs from internet darling Wildflower Cases.

The pattern consists of layers of alternating shades of red and pink in a heart shape, creating an effect that catches the eye even while the design itself is pretty simple. It even resembles a Valentine’s Day card that you might have made with glue and some construction paper as a child. The pattern also frequently appears in brown and green, as shown below in photos found on Pinterest.

The red, brown, and green versions of the pattern.

The design is perhaps most known for being on sweaters bought on the clothing site CIDER. The shop calls back to the design’s origins in The Powerpuff Girls’ intro song, “A mixture of sugar, spice and everything nice with a dash of Chemical X and we have the three ICONS known as the Powerpuff Girls! Doesn’t this sweater just bring back good childhood memories of the intro song and that AMAZING heart background? Chanel your inner Blossom as leader… or are you more of a Bubbles, who’s…

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