Ancient Chinese Color Ink Style Map Symbols, 300 PNG images

$4.97

Bring the look of classical Chinese cartography to your world map. This curated pack of 300 transparent PNG symbols—pagodas, city gates, junks, bamboo groves, mountains, mythic beasts, figures, waves, scrolls, and more—installs smoothly in all map-making software and image editors (Wonderdraft, Inkarnate, Dungeondraft, CC3, Roll20/Foundry, Photoshop, Affinity, Procreate, GIMP, etc.). Perfect for authors, game masters, and world builders who want elegant, historically inspired detail fast. Included in the file is a link to the no extra charge original large size images (98 MB). Included here are more reasonable sizes great for maps. Set these to darken or multiply blend mode over paper for the best look.

Bring the look of classical Chinese cartography to your world map. This curated pack of 300 transparent PNG symbols—pagodas, city gates, junks, bamboo groves, mountains, mythic beasts, figures, waves, scrolls, and more—installs smoothly in all map-making software and image editors (Wonderdraft, Inkarnate, Dungeondraft, CC3, Roll20/Foundry, Photoshop, Affinity, Procreate, GIMP, etc.). Perfect for authors, game masters, and world builders who want elegant, historically inspired detail fast. Included in the file is a link to the no extra charge original large size images (98 MB). Included here are more reasonable sizes great for maps. Set these to darken or multiply blend mode over paper for the best look.

Design maps with the quiet gravitas of an ink wash. Ancient Chinese Map Symbols is a meticulously illustrated library of 300 high-resolution PNGs with clean transparent backgrounds, crafted to match across sets so your cities, coastlines, and kingdoms feel cohesive at any scale. You’ll find pagodas and walled compounds, harbor junks and river boats, bamboo stands and scholar’s rocks, mountains in classic brush style, waves and clouds, scroll frames, lanterns, animals, and court figures—everything you need to stage wuxia realms, silk-road campaigns, or historical fiction settings.

These assets work with every major tool: drop them into Wonderdraft, Inkarnate, Dungeondraft, Campaign Cartographer 3, Foundry VTT, Roll20, or compose scenes in Photoshop, Affinity Photo/Designer, Procreate, Krita, GIMP, Illustrator and more. Scale without jagged edges, recolor for mood, and layer with your own textures to create publication-ready maps for novels, TTRPG modules, world bibles, classroom materials, and game handouts. Whether you’re an author sketching a journey map, a GM prepping session zero, or a world-builder assembling a full atlas, this set gives you a refined, historically grounded aesthetic that reads beautifully on screen and in print.

What you get

  • 300 PNG symbols (transparent backgrounds; print & web ready)

  • Cohesive hand-painted, East-Asian brush aesthetic

  • Categories: buildings & gates, ships, vegetation & rocks, mountains, waves & clouds, figures, animals, decorative scrolls & markers

  • Universal compatibility with leading map software and image editors

  • Ideal for authors, game masters, cartographers, teachers, and world-builders

Give your setting the timeless look of classical Chinese maps—clear, elegant, and instantly evocative.