Clip Art Browser

Beginner · 8 min read · By Chitmunk Team · Updated Oct 18, 2026

Overview

Placeholder art does not have to look like a placeholder. The Clip Art Browser puts a library of free artwork inside the editor, no downloads or external tools required. The browser includes:

• 275,000+ icons from Iconify, spanning dozens of open-source icon collections.
• 523 Kenney board game art pieces: cards, chips, dice, meeples, and other game pieces, all CC0 (public domain).
• 32 SVG tiling patterns across 4 categories, perfect for card backgrounds and decorative fills.

To open the Clip Art Browser, open the Add panel and click Clip art under Art. It has four tabs: Search, Textures, Favorites, and In Project.

Searching for Icons

On the Search tab, type a term like "sword", "heart", or "shield" in the search bar and results appear as you type. The browser searches across all available sources at once.

Use the source buttons below the search bar to filter results:

• All: Shows results from every source combined.
• General icons: Shows only results from Iconify icon collections (275K+ icons from sets like Material Design, Lucide, Tabler, Phosphor, game-icons.net, and many more).
• Board game art: Shows only the 523 Kenney board game art pieces, a curated set of game-specific artwork.
• Patterns: Shows the 32 built-in SVG tiling patterns for backgrounds.

Browsing by Tag

If you are not sure what to search for, use the Browse: row under the source buttons. It organizes icons into 14 category groups, each with a menu of tags:

• Weapons
• Body
• Creatures
• Nature
• Fantasy
• Buildings
• Food & Drink
• Machines
• Culture
• Symbols
• Games
• Items
• Status
• History

Click a category, then a tag, to see matching icons. Click the tag chip again to clear it.

Recoloring Icons

Most icons in the Clip Art Browser are monochrome SVGs, which means you can recolor them to match your card design. Above the results:

• Icon Color sets the color of every icon you add next.
• Background sets the color the previews sit on, so you can see how an icon will look on your card, and Transparent turns the background off.

The color is set when the icon is added. To change it later, add the icon again in the new color and delete the old one.

Using Kenney Board Game Art

The Kenney board game art pack includes 523 pieces specifically designed for tabletop games. All pieces are licensed under CC0 (Creative Commons Zero), meaning they are in the public domain: you can use them in any project, commercial or personal, with no attribution required.

The collection includes:

• Cards: Card fronts, backs, and suit symbols.
• Chips: Poker chips, tokens, and counters in various colors.
• Dice: Six-sided dice faces, polyhedral dice, and custom dice symbols.
• Game pieces: Meeples, pawns, crowns, stars, and other common board game components.

Choose Board game art to see the full collection, or search for specific pieces like "meeple" or "chip".

SVG Tiling Patterns

Chitmunk includes 32 built-in SVG tiling patterns that repeat across any size without a visible seam. These are ideal for card backgrounds, decorative borders, or texture overlays. The patterns are organized into 4 categories:

• Geometric: Grids, diamonds, hexagons, chevrons, and other repeating geometric shapes.
• Organic: Waves, scales, leaves, and natural textures.
• Classic: Damask, fleur-de-lis, Celtic knots, and other ornamental motifs.
• Playful: Stars, hearts, meeples, dice, and other game-themed motifs.

To use a pattern, choose Patterns under Search and click a pattern to add it. The pattern's color follows Icon Color and its background follows Background, set before you click. Each pattern is added as a backdrop that fills the entire card area including the bleed zone; you can adjust its color and image opacity in the inspector.

Textures

The Textures tab holds paper, wood, stone, and fabric photos plus more patterns. Filter by Made here (drawn by Chitmunk), Photo textures, Tiling patterns, or Line patterns, and narrow further with the Category menu. Click a texture to add it.

Favorites

Found an icon you love? Click the star icon on any item to add it to your favorites. Favorites are saved in this browser for all your projects, so you can quickly access your most-used clip art from any design.

To view your favorites, click the Favorites tab at the top of the Clip Art Browser. Remove a favorite by clicking the star again.

In Project

The In Project tab automatically tracks every clip art item you have used in the current project. This makes it easy to reuse the same icon on multiple cards without searching for it again. If you used a sword icon on your attack cards, it will be waiting for you in the In Project tab when you design your defense cards.

Project clip art is tracked automatically: there is nothing you need to do. The list updates as you add or remove items from your design.

Icon Licenses

The icons available through Iconify come from many different open-source collections, and each collection has its own license. Most are permissive (MIT, Apache 2.0, CC BY 4.0), but the specific terms vary.

Kenney board game art is CC0: no attribution required. SVG tiling patterns included with Chitmunk are also free to use without attribution.

Chitmunk keeps your credit lines for you, across every game you make in this browser. Once a CC BY icon or pattern is in your game, a Credits for art you've used button appears at the bottom of the Clip Art Browser. Open it, press Copy credits, and paste the lines into your rulebook, box or website. Brand logos and icon sets that forbid commercial use or require you to share your design alike are left out of search.

Adding to Canvas

To add any item to your card design, click it in the Clip Art Browser. The item is added to the card as an image, centered. From there, you can move, resize, rotate, and style it using the same controls as any other image element.

Items are added by click, not by dragging. Move them into place afterwards.