Photo credits

Letterbench uses seventeen photographs and scans, one per line below: ten under CC0 1.0, five in the public domain, one under CC BY 2.0 and one under CC BY 2.5. We found them on Wikimedia Commons, in museum open-access collections and through Openverse, cropped and resized them, and link each one to its original page.

The pictures set the mood for pages about words; none of them is an example from an article. The hands in them belong to models with no link to the topics, and no pencil, notebook or dictionary brand is being endorsed.

Photos by page

• Home page: a printer's type case on a stand at the Gutenberg Museum, Mainz. Photo: dronepicr / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).
• American and British spelling: an open dictionary at the entry for "focus". Photo: Romain Vignes / Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
• Commonly misspelled English words: two worn pencil erasers. Photo: jeffweese / Flickr (CC0 1.0), via Openverse.
• Homophones and real-word errors: a hand writing with a pencil in a spiral notebook. Photo: rawpixel (CC0 1.0), via Openverse.
• Writing prompts and constraints for word tiles: two pairs of hands holding letter tiles. Photo: Gabby Orcutt / Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
• Where magnetic poetry comes from: a fridge door covered in souvenir magnets. Photo: Rumensz / Wikimedia Commons (public domain, released by the author).
• How spell checkers work: a dismantled mechanical typewriter laid out in rows. Photo: Florian Klauer / Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
• Levenshtein and Damerau distance in JavaScript: JavaScript code on a monitor. Photo: Markus Spiske / rawpixel (CC0 1.0), via Openverse.
• The HTML spellcheck attribute: stylesheet code on a monitor. Photo: rawpixel (CC0 1.0), via Openverse.
• Building draggable word tiles with Pointer Events: wooden letter tiles on an orange table. Photo: WOKANDAPIX / Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
• Talking to PHP from JavaScript: PHP template code in a dark editor. Photo: CCØBAY / Flickr (CC0 1.0), via Openverse.
• Spell checker documentation: metal type in a printer's case with a line of set type. Photo: Willi Heidelbach / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.5).
• Writing an honest rental listing: brick row houses with "For Rent" cards in the windows, about 1900–1920. Photo: unknown photographer, Missouri History Museum / Wikimedia Commons (public domain).
• CSS hyphens, soft hyphens and the lang attribute: a page of justified type on word spacing, with hyphenated line ends, from the 1911 Manual of Style. Scan: University of Chicago Press / Wikimedia Commons (public domain).
• Silent letters in English: a page of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales printed by William Caxton at Westminster, c. 1477. Scan / Wikimedia Commons (public domain).
• Soundex in JavaScript: a drawer of typed index cards from the pre-1978 copyright catalog at the Library of Congress. Photo: Michael Holley / Wikimedia Commons (public domain).
• Word ladders: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), albumen print, 1863. Photo: Oscar Gustav Rejlander / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, 2005.100.757 (CC0 1.0, Open Access).

The tile illustrations on Anagrams, palindromes and pangrams, How a word gets into the dictionary, Usage rules and myths and Eggcorns, malapropisms and mondegreens are not photographs: they were drawn for Letterbench and are not taken from any other source.

The two Attribution-licensed photos (CC BY 2.0 and CC BY 2.5) can be reused under those licences as long as the photographer is credited as shown above. Photographers who spot a wrong name or link in their credit can tell Letterbench through the contact page.

Fonts

Headings are set in Fraunces, a typeface released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1; Letterbench serves the font files itself.