Woodcuts
Woodcut graphics drawn in code: a black shape, white carved lines and a slightly rough printed edge. Swallows, mountains, leaves, wind, fruit, people in a circle, seeds and sprouts. Every file is an SVG on a transparent ground, and its ink follows the page's text colour.
- Use for
- Punctuation anywhere: one per section, beside a heading, a quote or a list.
- Colour
- Ink of the ground: ink on light grounds, chalk on night, or one of the three illustration inks. The red seeds are the one red graphic; keep them occasional.
- Grounds
- White, Paper, Sunlight, Night
- Registers
- Study, Conversation, Gathering
- Formats
- SVG
- Rights
- Ours to use anywhere.
The carved lines are real cut-outs: the ground shows through them, as in a print.
mountain · Drawn in code (wc.py)
Mountain and moon
A mountain with a rising moon.
Ink of the groundSVG 4 KB
fruit · Drawn in code (wc.py)
Pomegranate
Pomegranate cut open, full of seeds.
Ink of the groundSVG 11 KB
people · Drawn in code (wc.py)
Circle of chairs
People sitting on chairs in a circle, around a small fire.
Ink of the groundSVG 15 KB
people · Drawn in code (wc.py)
Circle from above
The same circle seen from above, carved into a dark floor.
Ink of the groundSVG 7 KB
seeds · Drawn in code (wc.py)
Seeds and clusters
The woodcut seeds and seed clusters (sunflower, bean, maple key, acorn, pumpkin, stone, wheat, dandelion; spiral, scatter, row).
Ink of the groundSVG 29 KB
leaves in the air · Drawn in code (wc.py)
Leaves rising
Three leaves rising on the air, large to small, like the swallow flock.
Ink of the groundSVG 7 KB
leaves in the air · Drawn in code (wc.py)
Leaves falling
Five leaves tumbling down, some turned edge-on.
Ink of the groundSVG 10 KB
sprout · Drawn in code (wc.py)
Sprout from the soil
A sprout breaking out of a mound of soil, with the seed, roots and buried shoot carved into it.
Ink of the groundSVG 12 KB
sprout · Drawn in code (wc.py)
Sprout growing
The same sprout growing in five stages: seed, hooked shoot, closed leaves, open leaves, first true leaves.
Ink of the groundSVG 25 KB
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Files: system/graphics/woodcuts/, with a README on sources and how they were made. Rules for every set: graphics.
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