Our Standards
Sprite Shelf only earns trust if a green “commercial use OK” badge actually means something. Here's exactly how that bar gets set, and what we won't list.
Licence clarity is verified, never guessed
Every listing's licence answer is written by a human who has actually read the seller's terms — not inferred from a category, not assumed from the platform, not generated. Until that review has happened, a shop's licence badge renders as a neutral “not yet verified,” never green. A shop's own marketing copy claiming “commercial use fine!” does not count as verification.
How a shop gets listed
Every submission is checked automatically first — is the storefront actually reachable, does it look like a real inventory, is it a duplicate of something already listed. What passes goes into a human review queue, and nothing goes live until a person has confirmed the licence terms and written the summary you see on the listing. We aim to review new submissions within 3 business days.
What we don't list
Mature or NSFW content
Out of scope for now — not filtered, not tagged, simply not accepted. This may change once we have the moderation capacity to do it responsibly; we'd rather say no than pretend to handle it well.
Dead or parked storefronts
If the link doesn't lead to a real, actively maintained shop, it doesn't get listed.
Resellers and flippers
Accounts repackaging or reselling someone else's assets as their own catalogue.
Bulk, ungoverned AI-generated dumps
Large batches of generated assets with no real curation or creative process behind them.
Affiliate link farms
Pages that exist to route clicks through affiliate links rather than to sell a real creator's work.
Duplicate listings
The same shop or storefront already has a listing.
This page changes as we learn
These standards will get more specific as real edge cases show up in review. If a listing looks wrong to you, tell us — that feedback is exactly what keeps this page honest.