Decks
Generic Tarot 0
A deck drawn from scratch, for readers whose own deck is not here — and, being in copyright, never can be. It says nothing of its own: each trump is a plain device over its numeral, each pip is its suit symbol repeated the right number of times, and every card prints its name along the foot, which is also what tells you it has come up reversed. Justice is VIII and Strength is XI, the classic order rather than the Rider-Waite-Smith one. Suits are told apart by colour rather than by picture. Every shape was drawn for this deck and carries no restrictions; the source SVGs sit beside the images in the repository.
Vector Playing Cards (Byron Knoll) 0
An ordinary deck: the fifty-two cards of the English pattern that everyone already knows, plus two jokers. Drawn as vector art by Byron Knoll and released to the public domain. It is the only deck here that is not a historical artefact — it is in the collection to be the plain deck the others can be read against. The set carries no card back, so the one shown is a modern reconstruction. Images from Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
English Pattern (Fomin) 0
The collection's second ordinary deck: the same fifty-two English-pattern cards, two jokers and a back. The cards were drawn by Dmitry Fomin and dedicated to the public domain under CC0; the sheet they are cut from here was assembled by Guy vandegrift, who added the jokers, the backs and a blank card, and released it under the LGPL. This whole deck therefore travels under the LGPL rather than CC0 — worth knowing, since it is copyleft inherited onto otherwise public-domain art. The jokers are captioned in Russian: ДЖОКЕР. Images from Wikimedia Commons.