Humans

Human figures are what tell a viewer how big a space actually is. A blank wall has no inherent size; your eye cannot separate a four metre ceiling from a six metre one until something with a known dimension appears beside it.

This collection holds people in every format architectural drawings need. Photographic cutouts for renders, flat vector figures for diagrams, silhouettes for elevations and sections, CAD blocks for technical drawings, and Photoshop brush sets when you want to stamp a crowd quickly. Sets range from single figures to mega packs of a hundred or more.

Two decisions separate figures that work from figures that do not. The first is height: use roughly 1.75 m as the default adult and vary it between about 1.55 m and 1.90 m so the crowd is not made of clones. The second is behaviour: figures should be doing something the space is actually for. Three people at a table read as a canteen; the same three standing still read as a corridor.

Our guide to scale figures and entourage covers the maths for every drawing scale, style matching, and the licensing terms of the main free sources.