Photo credits

Letterbench uses twelve photographs, one per line below: nine under CC0 1.0, one in the public domain, one under CC BY 2.0 and one under CC BY 2.5. We found them on Wikimedia Commons and through Openverse, cropped and resized them, and link each one to its original page.

Photos set the scene; they are not examples taken from the articles. The hands shown belong to models with no connection to the subjects discussed, and no product or brand is endorsed.

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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).

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