Where can I find free playing card images for use in creating games?

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Where can I find free playing card images for use in creating games?

I'm looking for some free-to-use-for-any-purpose (public domain, BSD-license, etc.) playing card images for use in games.

I found a pretty nice collection at http://www.jfitz.com/cards/, but was wondering what other nice collections might be available.

I have Googled for "playing card images" and similar terms, and most of the returned links are for collections that are covered by GPL or are otherwise encumbered, and a lot of them just suck, so I'm hoping for recommendations from people who have found particular sets they like.

(Some people want to close this as "not programming related". I am developing online games. I think this is programming related.)

+3 A:

Using my Google foo:

tvanfosson 2009-12-13 13:57:46

I don't want to sound ungrateful, but I know how to use Google too. Most of the 75 million links are for cards that are covered by GPL or are otherwise encumbered. I was hoping for specific recommendations.

Kristopher Johnson 2009-12-13 15:58:18

Fine -- but remember that your question isn't just for you alone and while you can use google, google will eventually end up here as a result of someone else's search and adding a list of links in an answer might help them.

tvanfosson 2009-12-13 16:13:40

I did google and still found this answer useful. I especially liked the information, found through one of the links above, leading me to http://www.brainjar.com/css/cards/demo.html. The author demonstrates using CSS to generate the cards (except face cards) dynamically.

Alan Neal 2010-03-22 02:10:59

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Why don't you create your own images? Shouldn't be too hard with Photoshop and a nice monospace font available. Even Jacks, Queens and Kings can be incredibly simple to archive, take the following example from Microsoft Spider Solitaire:

Microsoft Spider Solitaire

IMHO, this is one of the sexiest, simplest card decks I've come across.

Alix Axel 2009-12-13 16:09:44

This is my favorite answer, but it doesn't really answer the question, so I can't accept it. But thanks for the suggestion.

Kristopher Johnson 2009-12-14 13:47:02

Sure, you're welcome. =)

Alix Axel 2009-12-14 13:58:30

@Kristopher Johnson: See also http://www.pello.info/filez/cards/poker.cards.bypx.png.

Alix Axel 2010-02-06 04:59:50

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There are free playing card images in openclipart. Alternatively, you might use those used in Linux distributions.

ammoQ 2009-12-13 16:18:39

All the cards I've seen in Linux distributions are GPL'ed. Do you know of any that are not copylefted?

Kristopher Johnson 2009-12-13 21:50:42

Those in openclipart are in the public domain.

ammoQ 2009-12-13 22:38:24

+1 A:

Came across these, http://www.ironstarmedia.co.uk/blog/2010/01/free-game-assets-08-playing-card-pack/. Not totally unencumbered but the Creative Commons Attribution License isn't unreasonable.

futnuh 2010-04-09 05:22:39

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