Design
Designs are custom-made patterns comprised of 32x32 pixels that can be created in each game (excluding Doubutsu no Mori) through an editing interface. The created design can be applied to clothing, umbrellas, hats, carpeting, and wallpaper. Designs can also be placed as paintings and, from Wild World-onwards, overlaid on the ground. Designs that are placed on the ground will prevent anything from growing or spawning in that tile and, prior to New Horizons, cause items dropped from trees and fallen balloon presents to disappear if there is not enough space for them to land. In Animal Crossing only, players can also place a design on their front door. In New Leaf and New Horizons, designs can be used to customize furniture. Befriending Sable in the latter game will unlock a variety of pre-made designs that can be applied to certain furniture.
Designs can be displayed in the Able Sisters where villagers may start wearing them and other players may copy the designs for themselves. In Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk, each player may hold 8 designs on them at a time, although the latter game allow 64 additional designs to be stored with Mabel. Animal Crossing: New Leaf ups the design limit to 10 designs and Mabel will store 72 designs. Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer allows the player to hold 120 designs. Animal Crossing: New Horizons allows 40 designs and 40 pro-designs to be held, though this is shared between all players on the island. Mabel no longer stores designs, but the player can upload up to 130 of their own designs to share with other players. Unlike previous games, there is no way for the player to store designs made by others.
Pro designs
From City Folk-onwards pro designs can be created which are comprised of multiple different patterns that are applied to different parts of clothing. Tops can comprised of separate patterns for the left sleeve, right sleeve, front, and back. It costs 350 Bells to create a pro design in City Folk, 500 Bells in New Leaf, and is free in New Horizons, though the Custom Designs app must first be upgraded for 800 Nook Miles.
The categories of pro designs that can be created in New Horizons is greatly expanded from previous games:
- Tops
- Tank top
- Short-sleeve shirt
- Long-sleeve dress shirt
- Sweater
- Hoodie
- Coat
- Dresses
- Sleeveless dress
- Short-sleeve dress
- Long-sleeve dress
- Round dress
- Balloon-hem dress
- Robe
- Hats
- Brimmed Cap
- Knit cap
- Brimmed hat
Sharing
New Leaf and Happy Home Designer can generate QR codes to share custom designs. To unlock the feature in New Leaf, the player must first befriend Sable who will bring in a new sewing machine that will allow them to create and read QR codes. In Happy Home Designer, the machine is available in the upstairs of Nook's Homes after completing the lesson "Even More Designs" in exchange for 5 Play Coins. QR codes are stored as images on the SD card inserted into the Nintendo 3DS. Normal designs use one QR code, but pro designs are comprised of four separate codes. Once the codes have been scanned, a slot must be selected for the design to be saved to.
New Horizons is backwards compatible with QR codes created for these previous titles (excluding the Standee design type) via the NookLink service of the Nintendo Switch Online app for iOS and Android. The app can scan the QR codes, saving up to one design at a time and overwriting any previously scanned design. The player must then select the Download function of the Custom Designs NookPhone app to import the design from the app into the game itself. Despite New Horizons utilising a new and different format for pro designs, imported designs retain the format used in the previous titles.
Designs that are created in New Horizons can be shared after befriending Sable once again. In this game, shared designs do not use QR codes. Instead they are uploaded to Nintendo's servers and can be shared with other players by having them input an alphanumeric code. A Nintendo Switch Online subscription is required for this service.
In all games, imported designs cannot be modified. The metadata for each design contains the author's name, their town name, and a hidden identifier. Should this metadata somehow match that of another player, the game will treat the design as if it is their own and allow them to modify it.
List of official designs
Animal Crossing
Default designs
door template | arrow pattern | clothing pattern | umbrella pattern | ice-cream vendor |
64px | ||||
green mesh | avant garde | vine pattern | ducky umbrella | square pattern |
e-Reader designs
These designs are available as part of the Animal Crossing-e series. Scanning a design card will show the corresponding design on the Game Boy Advance alongside Sable's comment. If the game is linked to the e-reader, the design will be added to the game.
Design | Name | Sable's Comment |
---|---|---|
NES Link | Is it the missing Link? No, it's Link in the original NES game, The Legend of Zelda. | |
Shine Sprite | With this Shine Sprite pattern, you'll feel like it's summer vacation every day! | |
Jumpman | It's Mario, wearing his ever-popular Jumpman outfit from the classic Donkey Kong! | |
Samus Suit | They say the suit makes the bounty hunter. Try on this Samus suit and find out! | |
Pikmin Pattern | They keep looking at me. I don't know what they want, but they're making me nervous. | |
Star Fox Emblem | Claim your island for the Star Fox Team with this great logo. Great on flags and shirts! | |
K.K. Tour Tee | You've seen him live; now wear the T-shirt! Proceeds benefit the Stray Puppy Foundation. | |
Hero's Tunic | This classic green outfit was worn by the Hero of Time. Are you worthy? | |
Triforce Tile | Decorate your home with the ultimate power of the mystical Triforce! | |
Kirby Wallpaper | Kirby's coming right back at ya with cool threads straight out of Dream Land! | |
Resetti's Wrath | Just say "NO!" to resetting with this shirt dedicated to everyone's favorite mole. | |
Falcon Suit | ||
Yoshi's Egg | Based on the charming style of Yoshi's Island, this egg pattern will brighten any day. | |
Poké Ball | This classy design based on the pokémon poké ball makes a charming wallpaper. | |
Lil' miser shirt | Wario's branching out into fashion, it seems! Wear his unique designs with...pride? | |
DK Logo | ||
Kapp'n's Kisser | Just what you always wanted - Kapp'n's face plastered on your clothes! |
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Default designs
Tortimer's Pride | Hat Pattern | Clothing Pattern | Umbrella Pattern | Path Pattern | Classy Pattern | Bubble Pattern |
Pop Pattern | Aurora Pattern | Chic Pattern | Doughnut Pattern | Fish Pattern | Clover Pattern |
Wendell's designs
- Footprints
- Overhead view A
- Overhead view B
- Overhead view C
- Overhead view D
- Puddle
- Checkpoint 1
- Checkpoint 2
- North/South Road
- East/West Road
- South/East Curve
- South/West Curve
- North/West Curve
- North/East Curve
- Intersection
- Crosswalk
- Stones
- Fossil Dummy
- Storm Drain
- No Entry Sign
- Right Turn Sign
- Left Turn Sign
- Exclamation Sign
- No U-Turn Sign
- House This Way
- Town Hall This Way
- Museum This Way
- Speed Boost
- Brick Box
- ? Box
- Down Stairs
Nintendo's designs
18 designs are provided in the official Animal Crossing: Wild World Player's Guide. The designs are must be manually recreated to the pattern maker in the game.
Animal Crossing: City Folk
Default designs
Wendell's designs
These designs can only be obtained by Wendell, and feeding him the corresponding food will result in him giving the player one of these designs.
Distributed designs
Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Default designs
Town Flag | Hat Pattern | Clothing Pattern | Umbrella Pattern | Rose Flag | Stag Beetle Flag |
Plain Cloth | Plain Cloth | Plain Cloth | Sample Wallpaper | Sample Carpet |
Someone from Anytown
Apple Print Pro |
Ducky Tank Pro |
Flower Dress Pro |
Green Wave Print Pro |
Horn Pattern Pro |
Shirt Pro |
Tricolor Plaid Pro |
T-shirt Pro |
Nintendo designs
Animal Crossing | |||||||||
Isabelle | Mabel | Tom Nook | Lloid | Leaf | GracieGrace | Museum | Nook's Homes | Re-Tail | The Roost |
Peach Pro |
Daisy Pro |
Zelda Pro |
DJ K.K. Tee Pro |
Outset shirt Pro |
Halloween | ||||||||||||
Pumpkin Shirt Pro Short-sleeve Shirt |
Bat Shirt Pro Long-sleeve Shirt |
Bat Wing Shirt Pro Long-sleeve Shirt |
Skeleton Dress Pro Dress |
Skull Dress[nb 1] Pro Dress |
Spiderweb Dress Pro Dress |
Pikmin | |||||||||
Pikmin | Red Pikmin | Blue Pikmin | Yellow Pikmin | Winged Pikmin | Rock Pikmin | ||||
Bulborb | Snagret | Sheargrub (female) | Charlie | Brittany | Alf |
Tomodachi Life | |||||||
Island Cloth | Tomodachi Logo | Apartment Window | Friendship Window | Love Window | Despair Window | ||
Food Mart Uniform Pro |
Hats Uniform Pro |
Pawn Shop Uniform Pro |
The Cat Mario Show | |||||||||
The Cat Mario Show Logo | Sky | Cat Mario Standee Standee |
Cat Peach Standee Standee |
Bowser | Goomba | Bowser Icon | |||
Cat Mario Pro |
Cat Peach Pro |
"I <3 Bowser" Tee Pro |
Bowser Floor |
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker | |||||||||
Pixel Captain Toad |
Pixel Toadette |
Pixel Blue Toad |
Pixel Green Toad |
Pixel Yellow Toad |
Pixel Mummy-Me | ||||
Pixel Turnip |
Pixel Super Pickax |
Captain Toad Standee | Yellow Polka Dots | Luigi |
Monster Hunter | |||||||||
Felyne Standee Standee |
Radio T-shirt Pro |
Sanrio | |||||||||
Hello Kitty Standee |
My Melody | Pompompurin | Kiki and Lala | Cinnamoroll | Kerokerokeroppi |
Welcome amiibo | |||||||||
Nintendo Town Flag | Welcome amiibo Boxart | K.K. Slider Direct Standee |
Harvey Direct Standee |
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer
Default designs
Hat Pattern | Clothing Pattern | Umbrella Pattern | Plain Cloth | Plain Cloth | Plain Cloth | Rose |
Stag Beetle | Sample Wallpaper | Sample Carpet | Brick | Flagstone | Snow Flagstone | Snowy Flagstone |
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Default designs
someone from Anyisle
Tulip Top | Car Shirt | Geometry Shirt | Diamond Dress | Lemon Gingham Outfit | Palm Tree Cap | Mystery Knit Cap | Flower Print Hat |
Sable's designs
After befriending Sable, she will give the player several different categories of textures that can be used when customizing furniture. These categories of patterns can be accessed from a workbench.
- None
- Polka-dot print
- Striped
- Checkered 1
- Checkered 2
- Traditional 1
- Traditional 2
- Retro
- Natural
- Playful
- Cool
Gallery
Sprites and models
Screenshots
- WWBetaDesignScreen.jpg
Animal Crossing: Wild World (Pre-Release).
- WWBetaDesignWindow2.jpg
Animal Crossing: Wild World (Pre-Release)
- CFDesignMenu.png
Notes
- ↑ Nintendo did not upload the correct QR codes for this design, so as a result it cannot actually be imported.