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Free SVG images and icons, released under Creative Commons CC0

svgsilh.com

131 pointsmarcodiego22 comments

The biggest value an aggregator can provide here is curation. The amount of free resources are so vast there's no way you would be able to find the perfect PNG or SVG — and sometimes it's badly traced from raster. I've been using https://thenounproject.com whenever I'm looking for symbols. They also have collections when you want to maintain consistency in a project.

Amen. There's much free stuff, but sifting though it is unfathomably tedious to me.

It's all the same if you search for royalty-free music. I know I shouldn't complain, but most artists sharing free stuff "do not get it" when it comes to music for video with only a handful of tracks that are suitable. (Searching for something that is neither distracting from the video nor too boring)

Can somebody recommend an aggregator of royalty-free music that is not:

- from Kevin McLeod (Incompetech)

- from Jason Shaw (Audionautix)

- from ccMixter?

I think it's possible to find singular stuff on SoundCloud, but discovery of royalty-free music is not great on that platform.

This is not the thing you've asked for and it requires a bit of work to extract usable data from it, but I scraped Bandcamp a while ago (2019), along with the licenses of the tracks, genres and fan count, and made it available on Archive.org [0].

In theory, you should be able to parse the files, filter out libre/free music (CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA) and even order it by genre and fan count to get some options for music.

There's also the Free Music Archive (FMA) [1], StarFrosch [2] and ccTrax [3] (not to be confused with ccMixter).

[0] https://archive.org/details/thisonetime

[1] https://freemusicarchive.org/

[2] https://starfrosch.com/

[3] https://cctrax.com/

I wonder how legit this site is. It says:

> These SVG images were created by modifying the images of Pixabay.

And indeed, the images seem to be taken from pixabay (e.g. [0], [1]), however the pixabay license is NOT CC0, and specifically forbids redistribution [2]:

> Don't redistribute or sell Pixabay content on other stock or wallpaper platforms.

[0]: https://svgsilh.com/image/1801287.html

[1]: https://pixabay.com/vectors/grooming-cat-kitty-kitten-feline...

[2]: https://pixabay.com/service/license/

You're accusing without due research. The image on the pixabay site is from 2016, while the license it used until late 2018 was CC0: https://www.sugarfire.net/pixabay-license-change-no-longer-a...

Redistibution on stock platforms is not allowed for pixabay content. Terms don’t say anything about edited Pixabay content.

I'll go out on a limb and say "not legit at all", and would probably want to run it in a sandbox before downloading any links

Without presenting any evidence, your comment sounds like pure prejudice. The site has its few problems:

  - 2 advertisements and
  - link to facebook.

Besides that it is:

one of listed filters in creative commons search: https://search.creativecommons.org/search?q=trust&license=cc... ,

does not insist to became a member,

has no paid premium features,

very clean,

no sketchy ads,

no intrusive popups,

default presentation is not the most "clicked items",

and has no links to any suspect site.

I can't really see why it looks "'not legit at all', and would probably want to run it in a sandbox before downloading any links".

I can also recommend https://game-icons.net. As the name suggests, it mostly focuses on icons for games, but I find a lot of them are also usefull for other purposes. Most importantly they have a consistent style, so your stuff looks less like you've thrown-together art from 19 different sources.

This is a pretty useful site that I've often stumbled upon from Google. Also kudos on the super permissive cc0 license.

Another site worth mentioning is svgrepo.com which has an extensive amount of professional svgs and unlike some other sites cough flaticon cough it doesn't restrict you by number of downloads, pesky popups, etc.

Flaticon recently put their SVGs behind a paywall :'(

Hmm I'm unsure if the site is working or not. Alot of them are just solid black colours. One says it's 'indian flag'

https://svgsilh.com/image/42390.html

But it looks like a person behind 3 black boxes?

I think it's working as they intended, everything is a silhouette and the name of the site is "SVG Silh". I wondered what that name meant until I wondered how to spell that word above! =)

I think they collapsed all of the parts of each image into a single path, and show all images in the color selected at the top of the page. I haven't found any multi-color items yet.

But still, that's not an indian flag but it does look like it might be a cartoon Mahatma Ghandi!

OH then maybe it's meant to be the indian flag behind the person but collapsing the layers to a single colour blends it together making it look broken.

That would explain it!

Quality control is definitely lacking, but it is free so I have no complaints.

I also like https://cocomaterial.com

Upvoted! This is an amazing site. Thank you for sharing!

I remember quite some time ago a site like this was posted here. I went through and compiled a list of nearly-identical svg aggregation sites (it may have been png aggregation, can't recall now) that all used practically the same site template, with the same content. There's a plethora of them.

It makes me wonder who actually operates these.

Someone with `wget`.

I would be weary of the validity of the license.

If you do use any, make sure to modify them a little. Better safe than sorry.

It used to be you could put a quote next to a picture of Lincoln and that meant he said that quote and then we collectively got wise that this wasn't how reality worked.

Except if it is a website with pictures next to a claim of a creative commons license.

How can you ever be sure a digital asset authentically has the license someone puts on the page?

Wonder if you could create this with ai from copyrighted images

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