You can reuse our emotion wheels and cards: CC BY 4.0

The emotion wheels, feeling-word cards and printable sheets on the EmoAtlas blog are free to use in lessons, therapy sessions, articles, posts and slides, commercial ones included, without asking. The one condition: credit EmoAtlas and link to the page the image came from. That is the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0).

What is covered

• the feelings wheel and Plutchik’s wheel of emotions as A4 sheets in PNG, SVG and PDF (feelings wheel);
• the feeling-word cards, one per emotion family (list of emotions);
• the downloadable wheel sheets: color, black and white, and for kids.

You may print, hand out, publish, crop, translate the labels and build the images into your own work. If you changed something, say so (“adapted”).

How to credit

Under or next to the image, add a line like:

Source: EmoAtlas, https://emoatlas.com/blog/feelings-wheel-pdf

Link to the page the image is from. Where you can, also link to the CC BY 4.0 license. On a web page that could be:

<figure>
  <img src="https://emoatlas.com/infographics/feelings-wheel-a4.png" alt="Feelings wheel">
  <figcaption>Source: <a href="https://emoatlas.com/blog/feelings-wheel-pdf">EmoAtlas</a>, licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption>
</figure>

In print or posts without links, “Source: EmoAtlas, emoatlas.com” is enough. Keep the credit line with the site address at the bottom of the image — it is part of the credit.

Where the words come from

The feelings wheel and the cards are built from our own list of emotions: the ten families and their words are our selection, not a copy of anyone else’s wheel. Plutchik’s wheel follows psychologist Robert Plutchik’s scientific model — eight basic emotions, three intensities and blends of neighboring emotions; the drawing is ours.

What is not covered

• the EmoAtlas name and logo on their own — crediting us does not mean we endorse your work;
• the text of our articles and pages, the app and its code;
• third-party material, such as other authors’ quotes and questionnaires (for example, the GAD-7), where it appears on the site.

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Last updated October 21, 2026.