Max Edmands

There is nowhere near enough stuff in the public domain. Today, while attempting to put together a blackjack game for my computer science class, I was diverted by the completely unrelated and entirely useless task of drawing my own playing card graphics.

Correction: I only began drawing them after spending a fruitless hour searching for a set of public domain, Creative Commons, or GNU playing cards that someone else already created. All I found were a bunch of cards in .svg (Scalable Vector Graphics) format, which is a cool idea, but I don’t know how to use it in Java. And .svg is very poorly supported by current operating systems that aren’t Linux. Bummer, that.

Anyway, I have decided to make my own contribution to the pool of things people can use without special permission or paying other people. Maybe, at some point, I’ll make the entire contents of this web site that, but I definitely have not decided to do that yet… We’ll see. Anyway, here is a .zip file, containing 53 GIF playing card images. (the extra one is a card back. At some point, I’ll add a joker to the mix, but I didn’t need jokers for the program I was creating.) Click the ace of clubs below to download the .zip.

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