Licensing & credits
Every cursor pack on Font Loft is the work of a real human artist who chose to release it under an open license. This page explains which licenses we accept, how attribution is handled, and how to request changes if you're an artist whose work is listed here.
Accepted licenses
Font Loft only catalogs cursor packs that are explicitly published under one of the following licenses:
- CC0 1.0 Universal — public-domain dedication. The artist has waived all copyright. You can do anything with these files, including commercial redistribution, with no obligation. (Attribution is still appreciated.)
- Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 3.0 / 4.0) — free use and remix as long as the artist is credited.
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA 3.0 / 4.0) — same as CC-BY, but any derivative works must use the same license.
- GNU GPL 2.0 / 3.0 — free use; derivatives must remain GPL-licensed.
- OGA-BY 3.0 — OpenGameArt's attribution-only license, equivalent to CC-BY for asset use.
We do not catalog packs released under "free for personal use only" licenses, "do not redistribute" licenses, or any license that restricts non-commercial reuse, because the entire premise of the site is making well-credited packs easier to find and forward. If a pack page lists a license that doesn't appear on the list above, that's a bug — please tell us.
How attribution works
Every pack page on Font Loft lists, at minimum:
- The pack title as the artist published it.
- The artist's display name, linking to a per-artist page that lists everything we have from them.
- The original source URL, marked
rel="nofollow noopener", pointing back to the artist's own page. - The exact license, with a link to the license text.
For CC-BY and CC-BY-SA packs, that combination is the credit. If you redistribute one of these packs in your own project — bundling it into a game, a productivity tool, or a Windows skin — you should pass the same attribution along: the artist's name, the original source link, and the license. Simply screenshotting our pack page is not sufficient; the canonical credit lives on the artist's source page.
How to request a change
If you're an artist whose work is listed here and you want to:
- Update your display name or source URL,
- Add additional context to your pack pages,
- Change the listed license (e.g. you've upgraded a pack from CC-BY to CC0 since publication),
- Or have a pack removed from the catalog entirely,
…send a message via the contact page. Removal requests are honored within seven days, no questions asked, even if the original license technically permits the listing. The only thing we ask in a removal request is some way to verify you're actually the artist (a reply from the email tied to your OpenGameArt or DeviantArt account is plenty).
About the cursor previews
The arrow and pointer previews you see on every card and pack page are stylized SVG renderings generated by Font Loft in the collection's accent color — not the artist's actual pixel art. We chose this approach to keep page weight tiny, to avoid the awkward licensing problem of re-hosting thumbnails for hundreds of artists, and to make the site visually consistent across packs from very different sources. To see the artist's actual cursor art, follow the source link on the pack page.
About the catalog metadata
Pack metadata (titles, tags, download counts, license, source URLs) is gathered by a one-time PHP seed script that scrapes the public-facing search pages of OpenGameArt.org. We re-run that script periodically. The cached JSON file that powers the live site is stored alongside the templates in this repository — there is no live scraping during a page view. If a pack on the artist's source has been removed or updated since we last seeded, the live site may show stale metadata until the next seed; please flag any such case via the contact page.