These symbols are published under the Creative Commons BY-SA licence. We’d love to know how you plan to use the symbols so we can provide the best possible access. Change the filename from index.svg to whatever you want and save.Right click on a symbol and select “Save Image” or equivalent depending on your web browser.Open categories-en.html - it’s big so a slow download.We plan to add an interactive facility to select and download symbols but until then it is possible, though you need to specify the symbol name yourself. A Finnish translation of symbol names (select “raw” to download).A CSV of information for all the symbols (e.g.this is also available as a web page sorted by category (large file).A PDF of the symbols sorted by category (large file).A zip of all the symbols in SVG format, including a spreadsheet with categories, tags and rating (large file).Steve Lee wrote a blog post summarising the state of play in April 2020.

Mulberry is proud to be part of the growing number of tools and services providing free and open access to symbols and AAC. Symbols and design process originated by Garry Paxton who then assigned copyright over to Steve Lee in 2018.Designed by graphic artists, reviewed by community and coloured by SLTs overseeing volunteers who had mental health issues.Features unusual symbols usually missing from proprietary sets.Adult oriented symbols - most proprietary sets are designed for children.Foster innovation by allowing reuse and derivations, including internationalisation and use in web apps.Designed to overcome high costs experienced by symbols users - free at point of use.We also hope exciting new uses will be created so we have used a liberal Creative Commons licence. These symbols are provided as a “free at the point of use” resource for speech and language professionals (SLTs) or developers to use in communication aids or to print.

Many people with impaired speech and other language difficulties require symbols to support their communication needs, to enable their desires, wishes and opinions to be expressed. We believe that communication is a fundamental human right.

Free symbols for commercial use