Citations and reference images
This dictionary shows design styles and techniques through real works, and never creates or generates reference images itself. The images we publish fall into three legal categories.
1. Public domain and CC0
- Practice
- Works whose copyright has expired, or whose rights were waived. No attribution is legally required, but we credit the source and the work as scholarly practice.
2. Creative Commons (CC BY / CC BY-SA and similar)
- Practice
- Used under their license terms. These images carry the license name at the end of the credit and link to the page of record.
3. Quotation (Article 32, Japanese Copyright Act)
- Purpose
- This site is operated from Japan. For criticism, study and education of design styles, we quote works under Article 32 of the Japanese Copyright Act. The written entry is the principal subject; the image is subordinate material identifying what is discussed.
- Method
- Quoted images are kept at low resolution (640px or less on the long edge), unmodified, credited with “quoted from …” and linked to the page of record.
- Scope
- Used only where no freely licensed material exists — contemporary UI design languages, works still in copyright.
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- Contact
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