The phrase "checkerboard pattern" refers to a design or layout that looks like the pattern on a checkerboard, with alternating squares of different colors. Full definition
Both color (especially the transition from sepia tone to color) and detail (check out the detailed checkerboard pattern on Dorothy's Dress) are outstanding, in fact, better than many of today's films. (lifewire.com)
The painted flooring in checkerboard patterns are painted in «Swiss Coffee and Steel Wool by Pratt & Lambert». (homebunch.com)
In other pieces — collected under the title «Pixelator» — the surfaces are instead saturated by a close - knit checkerboard pattern of black and white, always created with spray paint, as if the digital skin of the images had been examined with a microscope and expanded into an optical rendering of its makeup. (michaelwerner.com)