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Licences & Credits

Last updated: 2026-07-27

PrintablesWorld is built on other people's generous work. This page records what we use, who made it, and the licence it comes under — both because several of those licences require the notice, and because the people who made these things deserve the credit.

Fonts

SIL Open Font License 1.1

Patrick Hand — © 2012 Patrick Wagesreiter
Handlee — © 2011 Admix Designs
Kalam — © 2014 Indian Type Foundry
Pacifico — © 2018 The Pacifico Project Authors
Lobster — © 2010 The Lobster Project Authors
Didact Gothic — © 2016 The Didact Gothic Project Authors
OpenDyslexic — © 2019 Abbie Gonzalez
Fredoka One — © 2011 Milena B Brandao
Cinzel — © 2020 The Cinzel Project Authors
Great Vibes — © 2012 TypeSETit, LLC
UnifrakturMaguntia — © 2013 j. ‘mach’ wust and Peter Wiegel
Allerta Stencil — © 2010 Matt McInerney
Stardos Stencil — © 2011 Vernon Adams
IBM Plex Sans — © IBM Corp.

Full licence text: OFL.txt · openfontlicense.org

Our handwriting-practice typefaces are OFL derivatives we built and renamed (as the licence's Reserved Font Name rule requires), each with its own licence text served next to the font files:

PW Print — derived from Edu QLD Beginner, © 2022 The AU School Handwriting Fonts Project Authors · licence
PW Cursive (US & UK) — derived from Playwrite, © 2023 The Playwrite Project Authors (TypeTogether) · licence

Apache License 2.0

Schoolbell — © 2010 Font Diner, Inc.

Full licence text: Apache-2.0.txt · apache.org

Fonts in the PDF editor

The PDF editor's text tool offers these families and embeds the one you pick into the file you download. All are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, served via Fontsource:

Roboto · Open Sans · Lato · Montserrat · Poppins · Inter · Oswald · Merriweather · Playfair Display · Lora · PT Serif · Source Code Pro · Dancing Script · Caveat · Pacifico · Great Vibes

Software

The PDF editor, the PDF converter and the Notepad run entirely in your browser, and do it with open-source code written by other people. Nothing here sees your file — it all runs on your own machine — but the licences ask that the notice travels with the software, so here it is.

PDF.js — renders the pages you see on screen. © Mozilla Foundation, Apache License 2.0.
pdf-lib — writes the PDF you download. © Andrew Dillon and contributors (@cantoo/pdf-lib fork), MIT License.
fontkit — embeds your chosen fonts into that file. © Devon Govett and contributors, MIT License.
Tesseract.js — reads the text in scanned pages (OCR), together with the Tesseract language data, also Apache 2.0. © Jerome Wu and contributors, Apache License 2.0.
JSZip — packs multi-file downloads into a ZIP, and reads the .docx and .pptx files you convert. © Stuart Knightley and contributors, MIT License.
SheetJS (xlsx) — reads and writes the spreadsheets in the Excel conversions. © SheetJS LLC, Apache License 2.0.
mammoth.js — reads Word .docx documents so they can be typeset into a PDF. © Michael Williamson, BSD 2-Clause License.
marked — parses Markdown in the text conversions, and in the Notepad’s live preview. © Christopher Jeffrey and contributors, MIT License.
heic2any — decodes iPhone HEIC photos. © Alex Corvi, MIT License.
CodeMirror 6 — is the Notepad’s editor itself — the text surface, the 57 language modes and grammars (@lezer), the search panel, code folding, the One Dark theme and the side-by-side compare view. © Marijn Haverbeke and contributors, MIT License.
js-beautify — pretty-prints JavaScript, CSS and HTML when you auto-format. © Einar Lielmanis, Liam Newman and contributors, MIT License.
nspell — runs the Hunspell spell check in your browser. © Titus Wormer, MIT License.
dictionary-en (SCOWL) — is the English dictionary that spell check looks words up in. © Titus Wormer; word lists © Kevin Atkinson and contributors, MIT and BSD-style (see /notepad/dict/LICENSE.txt).
libheif-js — decodes the HEIC and HEIF photos an iPhone takes, so they can be opened and converted. © Dirk Farin and the libheif contributors, LGPL-3.0.

Full licence texts: Apache-2.0.txt · MIT · BSD-2-Clause (mammoth.js)

Where a component is offered under more than one licence, we take it under the permissive one. JSZip is dual-licensed — MIT License or GPL v3, at the recipient's option — and PrintablesWorld uses it under the MIT License. We do not use it, or any other component listed on this page, under the GPL.

One component, libheif-js, is under the LGPL-3.0. That is a different licence from the GPL and it is what makes opening an iPhone photo possible here. We use the published build exactly as its authors released it: it is fetched straight from a public CDN when you open a HEIC file, we do not modify it, we do not host a copy, and it stays a separate file from our own code — so anyone is free to point the page at their own build of the library instead. That separation is the arrangement the LGPL is written around for a library loaded at run time.

Icons

Clipart & colouring artwork

The clipart and colouring images come from Openclipart, where every contribution is released into the public domain under CC0 1.0 — no copyright, no attribution required, commercial use permitted. We credit them anyway. Each file was checked against its Openclipart page before being added, and the per-image record (including the source id for every file) ships with the site at clipart/CREDITS.md and coloring/CREDITS.md. A small number of colouring pages are our own artwork rather than Openclipart's, and are marked as such in that record.

Map data

The world and continent maps are drawn from Natural Earth, via the world-atlas TopoJSON build of it. Natural Earth is in the public domain: no permission is needed to use it and crediting the authors is not required. We credit it anyway. The blank US states map uses US Census Bureau cartographic boundary files (also public domain), via us-atlas. Outlines are reprojected and simplified for printing by build scripts in this repository; no mapping service or tile provider is used, and nothing in these sheets carries a share-alike or attribution obligation onto what you print.

Borders follow the source data's de facto lines. On the country-labelling sheets the numbered answer list is the 193 UN member states; territories, dependencies and places with disputed or partial recognition are drawn as the data has them but are not asked for by name. That is a deliberate, externally-defined line rather than a position of our own.

What you get

The open-font licences above permit embedding these typefaces in the PDFs this site generates, and none of them require attribution inside the worksheets you download. What you may do with a generated PDF is set out in our Terms of Use.

Something missing?

If you think we've used your work without proper credit, or credited it wrongly, please tell us at contact@brightscalelabs.com and we'll correct it promptly.