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TikZ shapes are extremely hard to create – even the documentation admits as much.

On the other hand, the selection of shapes that ships with the tikz package is pretty meagre – besides rectangles, circles, diamonds and regular polygons there isn’t much more. A split circle and a few strike outs is about all.

Is there an online repository of ready usable high-quality shapes?

For example, I’m searching for a tag shape and while this is of course straightforward to create myself1 it’s still a lot of work and most probably redundant since someone else must have needed the same shape aready.

1 I’ve already created a “document” shape with a dog ear in one corner based on the tutorial in the documentation. Including debugging and parameter tweaking, this has certainly taken me more than one hour.

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    If there isn't there should be! Perhaps suggest to the texample crowd...
    – Seamus
    Dec 26, 2010 at 17:35
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    I'm planning for some time to create a repository of small useful TikZ snippets where something like this would fit in, but I never get around to code a webpage for it...
    – Caramdir
    Dec 26, 2010 at 19:31
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    I would be very interested to contribute to this open source initiative, if we agree to start it. One thing which will be very helpful is a collection of UML shapes.
    – yegor256
    Feb 25, 2011 at 9:39
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    Would you mind sharing your "document" shape example?
    – Bart
    Jun 27, 2012 at 13:41
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    @Bart It’s on a computer that I haven’t touched in months. Next time I use this PC, I’ll try to remember copying it. But it’s not that well done anyway.
    – Konrad Rudolph
    Jun 27, 2012 at 14:11

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I do not know of a central repository, however, there are a lot of examples at TeXample

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    I like this one: texample.net/tikz/examples/parameterised-pig
    – Second Person Shooter
    Jan 4, 2011 at 11:53
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    but most of those aren’t new node shapes, just examples of the existing shapes. For example, the pig “shape” mentioned by @xport isn’t actually a node shape. It’s just a macro that uses a tikz picture. In fact, only three of those examples declare new shapes …
    – Konrad Rudolph
    Jan 4, 2011 at 13:06

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