Credits and licenses

The drawings

Every pot cross-section on this site is generated by our own engine from our data. They are © Soil Versus and offered under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. You may reuse or adapt them, including commercially, if you credit "Soil Versus" and link to the page the drawing came from.

Download a drained-state drawing below. These are qualitative illustrations, not measured water amounts or pore sizes.

Photographs

Each photograph below keeps its author's license. Beyond the changes listed for each one, the site serves resized AVIF and WebP copies for faster loading; the full-size link beside each photograph opens the adapted JPEG.

Perlite

“Schultz Horticultural Perlite” by Ragesoss, CC BY-SA 3.0. Changes: cropped from the 3430×1240 original to a 1240×1240 square (x 1029–2269) so the granules fill the frame, re-encoded as JPEG at quality 84. Retrieved 2026-09-24. Our adapted version is offered under the same license.
Vermiculite

“Vermiculite1” by KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0. Changes: resized to 1600×1200, re-encoded as JPEG. Retrieved 2026-09-20. Our adapted version is offered under the same license.
Peat moss

“Schultz Sphagnum Peat Moss” by Ragesoss, CC BY-SA 3.0. Changes: resized to 1600×1069, re-encoded as JPEG. Retrieved 2026-09-20. Our adapted version is offered under the same license.
Sphagnum moss

“Sphagnum moss core to keep roots moist at all times” by Gergely Hideg, CC BY 2.0. Changes: cropped from the 4000×6016 original to a 2400×2400 square (x 80–2480, y 3128–5528), resized to 1600×1600, re-encoded as JPEG at quality 84. Retrieved 2026-09-24.
Coco peat

“Compressed coco peat” by Jungle Garden, CC BY 2.0. Changes: cropped from the 2238×1339 original to a 1339×1339 center square (x 450–1789), re-encoded as JPEG at quality 84. Retrieved 2026-09-24.
Potting soil

“USDA and NASA plant seeds of agriculture careers for young people and plant sister lettuce that grows on International Space Station (20151005-OSEC-LSC-0043)” by Lance Cheung, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public domain. Changes: cropped from the 3304×3595 original to a 1400×1400 square (x 1754–3154, y 2195–3595), re-encoded as JPEG at quality 84. Retrieved 2026-09-24.
Potting mix

“HandsInSoil” by M Tullottes, Public domain. Changes: resized to 1600×1200, re-encoded as JPEG. Retrieved 2026-09-20.
Topsoil

“-2018-08-30 Four Tons of Top soil, Norfolk, England” by Kolforn (Wikimedia), CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: cropped from the 5152×3864 original to a 1750×1750 square of the pile only (x 1550–3300, y 1560–3310), resized to 1600×1600, re-encoded as JPEG at quality 84. Retrieved 2026-09-24. Our adapted version is offered under the same license.
Garden soil

“Organic soil the next layer into the vegetable patch” by Doug Beckers, CC BY-SA 2.0. Changes: cropped from the 2816×2112 original to a 900×900 square of the soil (x 950–1850, y 800–1700), re-encoded as JPEG at quality 84. Retrieved 2026-09-24. Our adapted version is offered under the same license.
Coco coir

“Coconutfibres for plants PNr°0092” by D-Kuru, CC BY-SA 3.0 Austria. Changes: resized from 2178×1861 to 1600×1367, full frame retained without cropping, re-encoded as JPEG at quality 82. Retrieved 2026-09-22. Our adapted version is offered under the same license.
Pumice

“Airfall pumice (~1065 A.D. eruption of Medicine Lake Volcano's Glass Mountain eruptive center, northern California, USA)” by James St. John, CC BY 2.0. Changes: resized from 3008×2000 to 1600×1064, full frame retained without cropping, re-encoded as JPEG at quality 82. Retrieved 2026-09-23.
Raised bed soil

“Carré potager” by DEFI-Écologique, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: resized from 4032×3024 to 1600×1200, full frame retained without cropping, re-encoded as JPEG at quality 82. Retrieved 2026-09-23. Our adapted version is offered under the same license.

Type

Newsreader (Production Type), Atkinson Hyperlegible Next (Braille Institute) and IBM Plex Mono (IBM), all under the SIL Open Font License, self-hosted.