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What is an SVG wave generator?
An SVG wave generator builds the smooth, layered wave dividers that separate sections of a page — the ones that give a site a sense of flow instead of a hard, flat edge. Because the shape is pure SVG, a wave scales cleanly from a phone to a 4K display and stays a few hundred bytes of markup rather than a heavy image. This css wave generator lets you shape the curve by hand and copy the result straight into any project. Waves have been a staple of web design since the flat-design era precisely because they soften a layout cheaply; building them in SVG rather than a background image means they stay crisp and recolor instantly.
How to make your wave
- Pick a Direction — Bottom anchors the wave to the bottom of the section, Top flips it to hang from above.
- Set Layers to stack up to four translucent waves for depth, and use Points to control how many peaks and troughs the curve has.
- Drag Amplitude to make the wave gentle and rolling or tall and dramatic.
- Choose a Fill color, then switch Fill style to Gradient to blend into a second color (Fill 2) for a richer band.
- Export with Copy CSS, Copy Tailwind, Copy SVG, Download SVG, or Download PNG — whichever your layout needs.
Design tips
Two or three layers at low amplitude reads elegant and corporate; a single high-amplitude wave feels playful. Match the wave's fill to the block below it so the divider blends rather than floats, and for a seamless transition let the layered opacities do the shading. Fewer points make broad, calm curves; more points create a tighter, rippled edge. And because the shape is responsive by default, it stretches to fill whatever width you drop it into, so a divider reads the same on a phone and a widescreen monitor.
Where to use it
Section dividers are the classic job, but this free wave maker is just as handy for footer tops, hero bottoms, card headers, and email banners. Since you get clean SVG markup, the same wave drops into a static site, a React component, or a design tool without losing a pixel of sharpness. Flip the Direction to Top and you have a matching cap for the section above.
Frequently asked questions
Is this SVG wave generator free to use?
Yes — no signup, no account, and no visible watermark on the wave itself. The exported SVG and CSS include a small, invisible code comment crediting MeshSVG in the source, but it never appears on the rendered shape, and nothing stops you from deleting that line before you ship it.
How do I add an SVG wave divider to my website?
Click Copy SVG or Download SVG to get clean vector markup you can drop straight into your HTML, or grab Copy CSS if you'd rather use the wave as a background-image on a section. Either way it's a few hundred bytes, scales to any width, and needs no build step or image host.
Can I layer multiple waves or flip the direction?
Yes. Set Layers up to four to stack translucent waves at different amplitudes for a sense of depth, and use Direction to flip between a wave that hangs from the bottom of a section or one that caps the top — handy for matching dividers above and below the same block.
Why use an SVG wave instead of a background image?
An SVG wave is code, not a picture, so it stays perfectly crisp from a phone to a 4K monitor and weighs a few hundred bytes instead of tens of kilobytes. It also recolors instantly with a CSS change, and because it's just a path, you can restyle or resize it anytime without re-exporting an image.
Can I use these waves in commercial projects?
Yes. Any wave you shape and export is free for personal and commercial use — client work, product landing pages, marketing sites, print — with no attribution required and no license fee. Tweak Amplitude and Points as many times as you like and ship whichever version fits; nothing is owed back to us.
What export formats does the wave generator support?
Copy SVG and Download SVG give you the raw vector markup, Copy CSS turns the same shape into a background-image snippet, and Copy Tailwind packages that as arbitrary-value utility classes if your project uses Tailwind. Download PNG renders a raster version up to 4K for anywhere vector markup isn't accepted.
Does the wave generator work offline, and where is my design stored?
Once loaded, the tool runs entirely in your browser, so shaping a wave needs no ongoing connection. Your current settings, plus any designs you've come back to recently, are kept only in your browser's localStorage on your own device — nothing is uploaded, and nothing disappears until you clear your browser's site data.