Open Clip Art Library

Current Releases

You can also browse the latest clip art uploaded online.

• Open Clip Art Library 0.19 — 12337 Images, Released March 31, 2009:
  • Full Release:
    All the public-domain clipart we have collected, in a single large download, with PNG thumbnails, and browsable html pages:
    • ZIP format (377M, includes PNG), MD5 Fingerprint
    • gzipped tarball (375M, includes PNG), MD5 Fingerprint
    • bzip2ed tarball (325M, includes PNG), MD5 Fingerprint

Past Releases

• Open Clip Art Library 0.18 — 6900 Images, Released October 10, 2005:
  • Update Release:
    There is no update release this month. If you'd like to help create an update release, please join the mailing list.
  • Full Release:
    All the public-domain clipart we have collected, in a single large download, with PNG thumbnails and .txt metadata summaries:
    • ZIP format (132M, includes PNG)
    • gzipped tarball (121M, includes PNG)
    • bzip2ed tarball (112M, includes PNG)
  • SVG-Only Release:
    
    • ZIP format (96M)
    • gzipped tarball (79M)
    • bzip2ed tarball (79M)
  • Windows Installer
    • Windows Installer.EXE (86M)

• Open Clip Art Library 0.17 — 6584 Images, Released September 6, 2005:
  • Update Release:
    There is no update release this month. Please accept our apology for this inconvenience.
  • Vector-Only Release:
    All the public-domain clipart we have collected, in vector format, with no thumbnails. These have the metadata embedded within the svg files, but no separate .txt files for each one. Vector only, no .png versions:
    • bzip2ed tarball (69M, only vector files)
    • gzipped tarball (75M, only vector files)
    • ZIP format (85M, only vector files)
    • Windows Installer.EXE (76M)
  • Full Release:
    All the public-domain clipart we have collected, in a single large download, with PNG thumbnails and .txt metadata summaries:
    • ZIP format (119M, includes PNGs)
    • gzipped tarball (109M, includes PNGs)
    • bzip2ed tarball (100M, includes PNGs)
  • Tools release for 0.17:
    • tools for 0.17 (25k)
    • tools for 0.17 (27k)
• Open Clip Art Library 0.16 — 4422 Unique Images, Released August 2, 2005:
  • Vector-Only Release:
    All the public-domain clipart we have collected, in vector format, with no thumbnails. These have the metadata embedded within the svg files, but no separate .txt files for each one. Vector only, no .png versions:
    • bzip2ed tarball (51M, only vector files)
    • gzipped tarball (57M, only vector files)
    • ZIP format (63M, only vector files)
  • Full Release:
    All the public-domain clipart we have collected, in a single large download, with PNG thumbnails and .txt metadata summaries:
    • ZIP format (85M, includes PNGs)
    • gzipped tarball (79M, includes PNGs)
    • bzip2ed tarball (72M, includes PNGs)
    • Windows Installer .EXE (70M)
  • Tools release for 0.16:
    The tools for 0.16 fix most of the known bugs from 0.15.
    • tools for 0.16 (128k)
• Open Clip Art Library 0.15 — 4336 Unique Images, Released July 6, 2005:
  The metadata in this release are in better shape than in the 0.14 release, but there were still some bugs.
  • Full Release 0.15:
    • ZIP format (90M, includes PNGs)
    • gzipped tarball (84M, includes PNGs)
    • bzip2ed tarball (76M, includes PNGs)
    • Windows Installer .EXE (73M)
  • Vector-Only Release 0.15:
    • bzip2ed tarball (48M, only SVG files)
    • gzipped tarball (54M, only SVG files)
    • ZIP format (60M, only SVG files)
  • Update Release 0.13-0.15 New Images:
    • ZIP format (28M, contains recent additions only).
  • Tools Release 0.15:
    The tools for 0.15 fix several bugs since 0.14, but there were known bugs still outstanding; get the 0.16 release instead if you can.
    • tools for 0.15 (36k)
• Open Clip Art Library 0.14 — 3415 Unique Images, Released July 6, 2005:
  The SVG files in this release are usable, but some of the metadata are missing (or appear as "HASH(0xsomeaddress)"), and the indeces and statistics are nearly useless. Also, some repaired images that were introduced in 0.13 got missed out of this release.
  • ZIP format, with PNG thumbnails (63M)
  • gzipped tarball, with PNG thumbnails (58M)
  • bzip2ed tarball, with PNG thumbnails (53M)
  • ZIP format, no thumbnails (39M, contains images in vector formats only)
  • Windows Installer .EXE (53M)
• Tools release for 0.14:
  These are improved over the 0.14 tools but still have significant bugs; as we transition from regular-expression-based metadata insertion to using the XML tree, over the next several releases, things should continue to improve.
  • tools for 0.14 (25k)
• Open Clip Art Library 0.13.2 — 3459 Unique Images, Released May 4, 2005:
  The files in this release have preliminary repairs by Holger Will. We will try to track down the problems in our release processing and reprocess the files for the next release.
  • ZIP format (52M)
  • GZIP format (47M)
  • BZIP2 format (42M)
  • NEW Windows Installer .EXE (43M)
• Open Clip Art Library 0.13 — 3459 unique images, Released May 2, 2005:
  Warning: Files in this release are slightly broken and may not work with all SVG viewers.
  • ZIP format (52M)
  • gzipped tarball (47M)
  • tar.bz2 (42M)
• Tools release for 0.13:
  (These may be slightly broken, causing the problems noted above. We will try to get repaired tools ready for 0.14. Thanks for being patient.)
  • tools (22k)
• Open Clip Art Library 0.12 — 3108 unique images, Released April 1, 2005:
  • ZIP format (45M)
  • gzipped tarball (40M)
  • tar.bz2 (36M)
• Open Clip Art Library 0.11 (2896 unique images, Released March 6, 2005):
  • ZIP format (40M)
  • gzipped tarball (35M)
  • tar.bz2 (32M)
  Tools:
  • tools (18k)

• Open Clip Art Library 0.10 (2547 items, released February 1, 2005):
  • tar.gz (23M)
  Tools:
  • tools (15k)
• openclipart-0.09.tar.gz (20M) Open Clip Art Library 0.09 (2489 items, released January 2, 2005)
• openclipart-0.08.tgz (16.7M) - The Open Clip Art Library (2181 items)
• openclipart-0.07.tgz (17M) - The Open Clip Art Library (2319 items)
• openclipart-0.06.tgz (12M) - The Open Clip Art Library (1702 items)
• openclipart-0.05.tgz (4.2M) - The Open Clip Art Library (721 items)
• openclipart-0.04.tgz (3.0M) - The Open Clip Art Library (610 items)
• openclipart-0.04.zip (3.7M) - The Open Clip Art Library (610 items)

Other Distributors

Some other sites are distributing the Open Clip Art Library as RPM packages in both the large package, as well as by individual categories. Here is a partial listing:

• TheOpenCD
• Gentoo
• Ark Linux
• Debian Package
• PLD Linux
• RPMSEEK — many different RPM packages
• rpm.pbone.net — has many RPMs and even the newest versions as well.

Old Packages

• flags-1.6.tgz (1.7M) - Flags of the World (417 items)
• nicu-0.1.tgz (162k) - Nicu's Clipart, including artistically styled images of people, computers, arrows, smileys, fruit, and office symbols. (228 items)
• open_collection-0.0.tgz (88k) - Tux logo and a few other random items (9 items)
• road_signs-0.0.tgz (37k) - English road signs (34 items)
• textures_mitch-0.0.tgz (7.3M) - Bitmap textures for use in rendering (21 items)

Tools

• SVG::Metadata (47k) - Bryce's tool for attaching metadata to SVG images and processing collections of SVG files using their metadata.
• Inkscape's tools page