There is a reason the checkerboard floor keeps coming back. The alternating grid is one of the simplest ways to create visual movement across a flat surface. It introduces order, rhythm, and contrast with nothing more than two colors and a repeating layout. For most of its modern history, those two colors have been black and white.
That combination is iconic, but icon status can calcify into...
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