I am nearly done with a second “cleanup pass” to smooth out and even further clean up the vector images.
Once that’s done, I’ll re-export to all formats and update the downloads. I believe this version will be as clean and professional as any paid version out there. As such, I’m guessing it’ll also be the final version.
I have always been a huge fan of John Tenniel’s classic woodcut images from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Knowing that they’ve long been in the public domain, I assumed I’d be able to find some high quality versions online that would be free/open source.
What I found is that all the were free options were, well… frankly garbage. Low quality scans, with scant detail, that did not do the classic images any sort of justice. However, if one is willing to pay (and pay a lot!) some people offer very nice (vectorized, high resolution) versions available at high cost, from stock photo sites. The cost is often $70+ for full rights to a single vector image. And there are 94(!) of them.
And these insane prices are for images that are in the public domain!
Yes, it takes work to create nice vector (or high res) versions of these, but not (in my view) at a level that justifies ripping people off.
As such, I’m proud to announce the release of a new project: Open Tenniel.
I have created beautiful vector (.svg and .eps) and high resolution bitmap (.png and .jpg) versions of all 94 images.
And all are dedicated to the public domain. For details (and downloads), please visit the project page:
This is a set of poker size playing cards which has been hand crafted (by me) in a standard vector format (.SVG). All 52 faces are offered in one file as separate objects that can easily be cut/pasted/exported singly as desired.
Click here for Download link.
These copyrighted graphics can be used without cost when used in compliance with the open source LPGL 3.0 License.
Please note that attribution (crediting) is a requirement of using these vector images.
In addition to the standard license below, I explicitly do not allow these images to be Minted to NFT’s (Non Fungible tokens) for sale/distribution in any manner via the block chain or any online NFT storefront.
LGPL 3.0 : https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html
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