Vocabulary

A cohesive system of design for Creative Commons

Vocabulary is a refactor and reimplementation of the original, now archived, Vocabulary Legacy project.

Both projects are informed by the CC Style Guide (2019), and incorporate or adapt its guidance into a digital context.

Setup & Development

For information on learning and installing the prerequisite technologies for this project, please see Foundational technologies — Creative Commons Open Source.

For installation information please see the Installation Documentation.

Upstream/Downstream Change Flow

Vocabulary has two modes of change flow that can be utilized as outlined within the Upstream Downstream Flow documention.

Downstream Implementations

• cc-resource-archive
• chooser
• index-prototype
  • vocabulary-theme
    • cc-legal-tools-app
    • faq
    • mp
• search

Code of conduct

CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md:

The Creative Commons team is committed to fostering a welcoming community. This project and all other Creative Commons open source projects are governed by our Code of Conduct. Please report unacceptable behavior to conduct@creativecommons.org per our reporting guidelines.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Resources

• necolas/normalize.css: A modern alternative to CSS resets

Copyright and trademarks

CC Badge, Icons, Images, and Logos

• The badges, icons, images, and logos contained within this repository are for use under the Creative Commons Trademark Policy (see Policies - Creative Commons).
• The icons, images, and logos are not licensed under a Creative Commons license (also see Could I use a CC license to share my logo or trademark? - Frequently Asked Questions - Creative Commons).

Code

COPYING: Where applicable, all the code within this repository is dedicated to the public domain under the CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication.

Normalize.css

normalize.css is licensed under the Expat/MIT License.

Fonts

CC Accidenz Commons

CC Accidenz Commons by Archetypo is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License.

JetBrains Mono

JetBrains Mono is licensed under the OFL-1.1 License.

Roboto Condensed

Roboto Condensed by Christian Robertson is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Source Sans Pro

Source Sans Pro by Paul D. Hunt is licensed under the Open Font License.

Vocabulary Icons

Vocabulary Icons use icons from Font Awesome which are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.