This page contains Test Card Definition files for use with FML Test Card Maker. The images shown are thumbnails created initially using TCM v3.20 or later, then converted to JPG format using MS Photo Editor or the new "save as JPG" feature on TCM v5.00 .

Where a test card requires any image files to be included, these are bundled with the TCD file into a ZIP (note that you must extract the files from the ZIP before using them, or the image file will not be found by the program). Click on the image to download the TCD or ZIP file. (If this brings up a page of text, then come 'Back' to here, right-click the image instead, and choose 'Save Target As', or alternatively, when the page of text comes up, click 'File' and then 'Save As' or your browser's equivalent thereof.)

Due to the size of the TCD Resource, it is now split into five separate pages:

Standard UK Test Cards

• Other European Test Cards

Test Cards from the Rest of the World

Other Standard Test Cards

Original Designs / What-Ifs

Crete
	A jolly colour test card from Crete (KPHTH TV = KRITI TV). | Requires Wide Latin font for the full effect on the ident Added 14/02/2004
Czech/Slovakia
	A monochrome optical pattern from what was then Czechoslovakia. This takes five layers to do properly, owing to the square of frequency bursts with an overlaid bullseye in the centre. Those border triangles and squares are trickier than they look too. | Requires v5.10+ Added 28/04/2006
	EZO-type test card as used in Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic. Added 18/05/2002 | Moved to this page 28/04/2006
	Imitation of the "1SR-P" electronic pattern. The caption "ZIZKOV" has also appeared in place of 1SR-P. ZIZKOV (or actually Žižkov) is a rather funky-looking transmitter in Prague. I suspect that 1SR-P is in some way related to SR PRAHA, a caption which has been known to appear on the PM5544. Added 12/01/2003 | Moved to this page 28/04/2006 | See the Žižkov tower here - the text is in Czech but it has English pages too
	From Slovakia, well OK, it's just another PM5544, but worth including because the caption font is non-standard, and therefore the captions have been implemented as bitmaps. Added 28/04/2006
Finland
	Pye Test Card G, which is a modification of Test Card C, further modified by Oy. Yleisradio Ab of Finland. This was also used in Denmark with the caption "DANMARKS RADIO". Added 28/03/2004 -- Submitted by Andrew Carter
Germany
	An early optical test card from East Germany (as it then was). Added 14/02/2004 -- thanks to Josep Sanz for original image
	Another monochrome East German test pattern, electronic this time - something like a monochrome EBU Bar. Added 14/02/2004
	And finally from East Germany, this colour electronoic pattern. Added 14/02/2004 -- Submitted by Josep Sanz
Iceland
	A distinctive monochrome test pattern from Iceland. Shown without idents here, but apparently the marvellous name of Iceland's broadcaster, "RÌKISÙTVARPIÐ SJÒNVARP", would sometimes appear in the top and bottom black sections of the circle. Added 14/02/2004 -- thanks to Josep Sanz for original image | Info updated 08/06/2004
Italy
	The classic RAI monochrome test card, similar to the Indian Head. No picture object required here - the RAI logo has been created using blocks and a circle. Added 18/07/2005 -- Submitted by Andrew Carter - with extra info here
	An avant-garde Italian electronic test pattern from the 1970s. Not sure what "Hertzen" is - it might be the makers of the test card generator. Added 20/11/2004 -- Submitted by Roberto Filiberti
	From Hamer & Smith 1981: "Due to a loophole in Italian law, many private, commercial stations have opened... There are in fact well over 500 such stations, most of which operate on low-power transmitters". The book contains several of them, and here is one... Added 20/11/2004
	...and another... Added 20/11/2004
	...and another. The 'A's of 'ANTENNA' should really be sloping toward each other - sort of '/|NTENN|\" ... anyone know of a TrueType font with two different-sloping 'A's in it? :-) Added 20/11/2004
Netherlands
	Dutch variation on the FuBK test card. The cut-out square and lack of a circle are the odd things.
	A Dutch test pattern from 1991. This is based on a screencap; the pattern on the left is effectively a binary counter going down the screen. Possibly it counts the TV lines, in which case it should be a bit finer. Added 19/03/2005
Norway
	Norwegian variation on the Grundig VG1000 electronic test pattern. Added 19/03/2005
Spain
	A rather grand test card used by TVE (Spain) in the 1950s. Added 14/02/2004 -- submitted by Josep Sanz
	TVE's follow-up in the 1960s, by which time they had become RTVE. Added 14/02/2004 -- submitted by Josep Sanz
	Modified version of the above, including use of the new diamond-shaped cutout facility to get the corner gratings correct. | Requires v5.10+ ; it was possible to fudge this in earlier versions by using sloping FreqBursts, partially obscured with background-coloured triangles, but it was quite fiddly and not as neat around the corners. Added 28/03/2004
	And now into colour with RTVE - this was used in the the 1980s and 90s. Added 27/03/2002 -- Submitted by Josep Sanz
	A variant of RTVE's electronic pattern, incorporating TVE's own logo as well as that of the station. Added 08/10/2005 -- Submitted by Casiano López Arenas
	Spain also uses the PM5544, while continuing the "prominent logos" theme. Here's one from Telemadrid... Added 08/10/2005 -- Submitted by Casiano López Arenas
	...and here's another, from the Balearic islands. Added 08/10/2005 -- Submitted by Casiano López Arenas
Turkey
	Test pattern used by TGRT (Turkey). I've been informed that YAYINI means "transmission" or similar, rather than just being Turkish for "test". The Turkish for "test" is "test"! Added 14/02/2004 -- submitted by Josep Sanz | Thanks to Peter Vince for extra info

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