As your eye moves throughout a space, pattern sprinkling polka dots will help create balance, as well as a bit of visual tension. Secondly, "Limit your palette by sticking to a cohesive color ...

Dotted patterns didn’t become popular until ... a February 1962 comic wearing a skin-tight costume covered in colorful polka dots that would swell up to create deadly weapons at the push of ...

BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color) starts with dots and spots ... to revelations about the quincunx, the five-dot pattern you see on a die and that Thomas Edison wore as a tattoo).