# Monotile background — Unless design system

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# Monotile background
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## The aperiodic monotile behind the texture

An aperiodic monotile, commonly known as an "einstein," is a shape capable of tiling the plane exclusively in a non-periodic manner. Our jumbotron pattern features the first true aperiodic monotile: a shape that naturally enforces aperiodicity through its own geometry, without the need for additional constraints such as matching conditions.

The jumbotron pattern is based on the aperiodic monotile - also called an einstein - a polykite shape that tiles the plane only without repeating. It comes from the work of **David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan,** and **Chaim Goodman-Strauss**. We like elegant maths.

Same explainer ships on the public [Colophon](/en/visitors/colophon/) page; this tab is the canonical surface-context version inside the design system.
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