diff --git a/draftlogs/6601_add.md b/draftlogs/6601_add.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b42c26e127d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/draftlogs/6601_add.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- add pattern to pie trace type [[#6601](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/pull/6601)]
diff --git a/src/components/drawing/index.js b/src/components/drawing/index.js
index 9e680f17999..b75d6e244c6 100644
--- a/src/components/drawing/index.js
+++ b/src/components/drawing/index.js
@@ -619,20 +619,22 @@ drawing.getPatternAttr = function(mp, i, dflt) {
     return mp;
 };
 
-drawing.pointStyle = function(s, trace, gd) {
+drawing.pointStyle = function(s, trace, gd, pt) {
     if(!s.size()) return;
 
     var fns = drawing.makePointStyleFns(trace);
 
     s.each(function(d) {
-        drawing.singlePointStyle(d, d3.select(this), trace, fns, gd);
+        drawing.singlePointStyle(d, d3.select(this), trace, fns, gd, pt);
     });
 };
 
-drawing.singlePointStyle = function(d, sel, trace, fns, gd) {
+drawing.singlePointStyle = function(d, sel, trace, fns, gd, pt) {
     var marker = trace.marker;
     var markerLine = marker.line;
 
+    if(pt && pt.i >= 0 && d.i === undefined) d.i = pt.i;
+
     sel.style('opacity',
         fns.selectedOpacityFn ? fns.selectedOpacityFn(d) :
             (d.mo === undefined ? marker.opacity : d.mo)
@@ -699,7 +701,7 @@ drawing.singlePointStyle = function(d, sel, trace, fns, gd) {
         if('mc' in d) {
             fillColor = d.mcc = fns.markerScale(d.mc);
         } else {
-            fillColor = marker.color || 'rgba(0,0,0,0)';
+            fillColor = marker.color || marker.colors || 'rgba(0,0,0,0)';
         }
 
         if(fns.selectedColorFn) {
@@ -766,7 +768,7 @@ drawing.singlePointStyle = function(d, sel, trace, fns, gd) {
                 patternBGColor, patternFGColor, patternFGOpacity
             );
         } else {
-            Color.fill(sel, fillColor);
+            Lib.isArrayOrTypedArray(fillColor) ? Color.fill(sel, fillColor[d.i]) : Color.fill(sel, fillColor);
         }
 
         if(lineWidth) {
diff --git a/src/components/legend/style.js b/src/components/legend/style.js
index 72bc7f67c13..91ae4b6eb09 100644
--- a/src/components/legend/style.js
+++ b/src/components/legend/style.js
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ module.exports = function style(s, gd, legend) {
 
             var d0Mod = Lib.minExtend(d0, {trace: tMod});
 
-            stylePie(pts, d0Mod, tMod);
+            stylePie(pts, d0Mod, tMod, gd);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/traces/pie/attributes.js b/src/traces/pie/attributes.js
index ef4f7252b7f..b30d6ad519c 100644
--- a/src/traces/pie/attributes.js
+++ b/src/traces/pie/attributes.js
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ var hovertemplateAttrs = require('../../plots/template_attributes').hovertemplat
 var texttemplateAttrs = require('../../plots/template_attributes').texttemplateAttrs;
 
 var extendFlat = require('../../lib/extend').extendFlat;
+var pattern = require('../../components/drawing/attributes').pattern;
 
 var textFontAttrs = fontAttrs({
     editType: 'plot',
@@ -89,6 +90,7 @@ module.exports = {
             },
             editType: 'calc'
         },
+        pattern: pattern,
         editType: 'calc'
     },
 
diff --git a/src/traces/pie/defaults.js b/src/traces/pie/defaults.js
index 806897d12dc..953619a94b7 100644
--- a/src/traces/pie/defaults.js
+++ b/src/traces/pie/defaults.js
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ var Lib = require('../../lib');
 var attributes = require('./attributes');
 var handleDomainDefaults = require('../../plots/domain').defaults;
 var handleText = require('../bar/defaults').handleText;
+var coercePattern = require('../../lib').coercePattern;
 
 function handleLabelsAndValues(labels, values) {
     var hasLabels = Array.isArray(labels);
@@ -64,7 +65,11 @@ function supplyDefaults(traceIn, traceOut, defaultColor, layout) {
     var lineWidth = coerce('marker.line.width');
     if(lineWidth) coerce('marker.line.color');
 
-    coerce('marker.colors');
+    var markerColors = coerce('marker.colors');
+    coercePattern(coerce, 'marker.pattern', markerColors);
+    // push the marker colors (with s) to the foreground colors, to work around logic in the drawing pattern code on marker.color (without s, which is okay for a bar trace)
+    if(traceIn.marker && !traceOut.marker.pattern.fgcolor) traceOut.marker.pattern.fgcolor = traceIn.marker.colors;
+    if(!traceOut.marker.pattern.bgcolor) traceOut.marker.pattern.bgcolor = layout.paper_bgcolor;
 
     coerce('scalegroup');
     // TODO: hole needs to be coerced to the same value within a scaleegroup
diff --git a/src/traces/pie/style.js b/src/traces/pie/style.js
index 9a1929a5311..08df15982b4 100644
--- a/src/traces/pie/style.js
+++ b/src/traces/pie/style.js
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ module.exports = function style(gd) {
         traceSelection.style({opacity: trace.opacity});
 
         traceSelection.selectAll('path.surface').each(function(pt) {
-            d3.select(this).call(styleOne, pt, trace);
+            d3.select(this).call(styleOne, pt, trace, gd);
         });
     });
 };
diff --git a/src/traces/pie/style_one.js b/src/traces/pie/style_one.js
index 943a69e6b37..139046ccc1e 100644
--- a/src/traces/pie/style_one.js
+++ b/src/traces/pie/style_one.js
@@ -2,13 +2,24 @@
 
 var Color = require('../../components/color');
 var castOption = require('./helpers').castOption;
+var Drawing = require('../../components/drawing');
 
-module.exports = function styleOne(s, pt, trace) {
+module.exports = function styleOne(s, pt, trace, gd) {
     var line = trace.marker.line;
     var lineColor = castOption(line.color, pt.pts) || Color.defaultLine;
     var lineWidth = castOption(line.width, pt.pts) || 0;
 
+    // enforce the point color, when colors (with s) & the pattern shape are missing.
+    // 'abuse' the color attribute, used in the Drawing component for bar trace type.
+    var marker = trace.marker;
+    if(marker.pattern) {
+        if(!marker.colors || !marker.pattern.shape) marker.color = pt.color;
+    } else {
+        marker.color = pt.color;
+    }
+
+    Drawing.pointStyle(s, trace, gd, pt);
+
     s.style('stroke-width', lineWidth)
-        .call(Color.fill, pt.color)
         .call(Color.stroke, lineColor);
 };
diff --git a/test/image/baselines/zz-pie_pattern.png b/test/image/baselines/zz-pie_pattern.png
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..97baae2c83b
Binary files /dev/null and b/test/image/baselines/zz-pie_pattern.png differ
diff --git a/test/image/mocks/zz-pie_pattern.json b/test/image/mocks/zz-pie_pattern.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e399da3358b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/image/mocks/zz-pie_pattern.json
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+{
+  "data": [
+    {
+      "labels": [ "giraffe", "orangutan", "monkey"],
+      "values": [ 30, 20, 50],
+      "type": "pie",
+      "marker": {
+        "colors": [ "red", "green", "red"],
+        "line": {
+          "color": "lightgrey",
+          "width": 4
+        },
+        "pattern": {
+          "shape": [ "+", "", "-"],
+          "fgcolor": [ "darksalmon", "black", "steelblue"],
+          "bgcolor": "lightgrey"
+        }
+      },
+      "textfont": { "color": ["black", "white", "black"]},
+      "sort": false,
+      "domain": {"x": [0.81, 0.99]}
+    }, {
+      "labels": [ "giraffe", "orangutan", "monkey"],
+      "values": [ 30, 20, 50],
+      "type": "pie",
+      "marker": {
+        "colors": [ "red", "green", "blue"],
+        "line": {
+          "color": "lightgrey",
+          "width": 4
+        },
+        "pattern": {
+          "shape": [ "+", "", "-"],
+          "fgcolor": [ "darksalmon", "black", "steelblue"]
+        }
+      },
+      "textfont": { "color": ["black", "white", "black"]},
+      "sort": false,
+      "domain": {"x": [0.61, 0.79]}
+    }, {
+      "labels": [ "giraffe", "orangutan", "monkey"],
+      "values": [ 30, 20, 50],
+      "type": "pie",
+      "marker": {
+        "colors": [ "red", "green", "blue"],
+        "line": {
+          "color": "lightgrey",
+          "width": 4
+        },
+        "pattern": {
+          "shape": [ "+", "", "-"]
+        }
+      },
+      "textfont": { "color": "black"},
+      "sort": false,
+      "domain": {"x": [0.41, 0.59]}
+    }, {
+      "labels": [ "giraffe", "orangutan", "monkey"],
+      "values": [ 30, 20, 50],
+      "type": "pie",
+      "marker": {
+        "colors": [ "red", "green", "blue"],
+        "line": {
+          "color": "lightgrey",
+          "width": 4
+        }
+      },
+      "sort": false,
+      "domain": {"x": [0.21, 0.39]}
+    }, {
+      "labels": [ "giraffe", "orangutan", "monkey"],
+      "values": [ 30, 20, 50],
+      "type": "pie",
+      "marker": {
+        "colors": ["steelblue", "steelblue", "steelblue"],
+        "line": {
+          "color": "lightgrey",
+          "width": 4
+        }
+      },
+      "sort": false,
+      "domain": {"x": [0.01, 0.19]}
+    }
+  ],
+  "layout": {
+    "title": { "text": "pie chart with pattern"},
+    "width": 800
+  }
+}
diff --git a/test/plot-schema.json b/test/plot-schema.json
index 79649df0f7c..24d6df68c97 100644
--- a/test/plot-schema.json
+++ b/test/plot-schema.json
@@ -42192,6 +42192,99 @@
        "valType": "string"
       }
      },
+     "pattern": {
+      "bgcolor": {
+       "arrayOk": true,
+       "description": "When there is no colorscale sets the color of background pattern fill. Defaults to a `marker.color` background when `fillmode` is *overlay*. Otherwise, defaults to a transparent background.",
+       "editType": "style",
+       "valType": "color"
+      },
+      "bgcolorsrc": {
+       "description": "Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for `bgcolor`.",
+       "editType": "none",
+       "valType": "string"
+      },
+      "description": "Sets the pattern within the marker.",
+      "editType": "style",
+      "fgcolor": {
+       "arrayOk": true,
+       "description": "When there is no colorscale sets the color of foreground pattern fill. Defaults to a `marker.color` background when `fillmode` is *replace*. Otherwise, defaults to dark grey or white to increase contrast with the `bgcolor`.",
+       "editType": "style",
+       "valType": "color"
+      },
+      "fgcolorsrc": {
+       "description": "Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for `fgcolor`.",
+       "editType": "none",
+       "valType": "string"
+      },
+      "fgopacity": {
+       "description": "Sets the opacity of the foreground pattern fill. Defaults to a 0.5 when `fillmode` is *overlay*. Otherwise, defaults to 1.",
+       "editType": "style",
+       "max": 1,
+       "min": 0,
+       "valType": "number"
+      },
+      "fillmode": {
+       "description": "Determines whether `marker.color` should be used as a default to `bgcolor` or a `fgcolor`.",
+       "dflt": "replace",
+       "editType": "style",
+       "valType": "enumerated",
+       "values": [
+        "replace",
+        "overlay"
+       ]
+      },
+      "role": "object",
+      "shape": {
+       "arrayOk": true,
+       "description": "Sets the shape of the pattern fill. By default, no pattern is used for filling the area.",
+       "dflt": "",
+       "editType": "style",
+       "valType": "enumerated",
+       "values": [
+        "",
+        "/",
+        "\\",
+        "x",
+        "-",
+        "|",
+        "+",
+        "."
+       ]
+      },
+      "shapesrc": {
+       "description": "Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for `shape`.",
+       "editType": "none",
+       "valType": "string"
+      },
+      "size": {
+       "arrayOk": true,
+       "description": "Sets the size of unit squares of the pattern fill in pixels, which corresponds to the interval of repetition of the pattern.",
+       "dflt": 8,
+       "editType": "style",
+       "min": 0,
+       "valType": "number"
+      },
+      "sizesrc": {
+       "description": "Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for `size`.",
+       "editType": "none",
+       "valType": "string"
+      },
+      "solidity": {
+       "arrayOk": true,
+       "description": "Sets the solidity of the pattern fill. Solidity is roughly the fraction of the area filled by the pattern. Solidity of 0 shows only the background color without pattern and solidty of 1 shows only the foreground color without pattern.",
+       "dflt": 0.3,
+       "editType": "style",
+       "max": 1,
+       "min": 0,
+       "valType": "number"
+      },
+      "soliditysrc": {
+       "description": "Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for `solidity`.",
+       "editType": "none",
+       "valType": "string"
+      }
+     },
      "role": "object"
     },
     "meta": {