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Credits

Who drew the letters and the scissors, and where the images come from.

RECORTA is made of a lot of other people’s work, and I like saying whose each piece is. Here are the people who drew the letters and the museums and libraries that opened their archives.

The fonts

TypefaceWhere it shows upDesigned byLink
Avara BlackLogo and headingsRaphaël Bastide, Wei Huang, Lucas Le Bihan, Walid Bouchouchi and Jérémy Landes. Published for free by Velvetyne Type Foundry under the SIL Open Font License.velvetyne.fr
PunctataNumbers and countersSébastien Hiernaux, Charel Lepage, Adrien Frère and Chloé Gobin, 2023. Made at the Typothèque of ESA Le75, an art school in Brussels.typotheque.le75.be
Panchi MonoCaptions, codes and the collage pageErwan Le Rétif.@erwanleretif

Erwan Le Rétif left a note with Panchi Mono:

Merci ! Hésite pas à me tagger (@erwanleretif) si tu postes ton projet avec cette typo sur Instagram ou d'autres réseaux ! :)

The scissors

The scissors in both versions, black and white.

Drawn by Sara Beneti in snakeskin, one black and one white, with googly eyes that came alive on the site. Every so often it snips, and its eyes follow your mouse.

Where the images come from

All 500 pieces come from museums, libraries and archives that released their collections into the public domain. Each piece has its full credit on its card in the collection.

SourcePieces
The Metropolitan Museum of Art180
Wikimedia Commons (Biodiversity Heritage Library plates, naturalist books and more)98
Selected by Sara Beneti, public domain images95
Made for RECORTA (papers, colors and tapes, CC0)72
Texture Ninja34
Public Domain Image Archive20
Rijksmuseum1
Total500

Open the collection

Spotted a piece with a crooked credit? Write to oirecorta@gmail.com and I’ll straighten it out.