| 00 | Unspecified, see description | See description in the <IllustrationTypeDescription> element | 0 | |
| 01 | Illustrations, black and white | | 0 | |
| 02 | Illustrations, color | | 0 | |
| 03 | Halftones, black and white | Including black and white photographs | 0 | |
| 04 | Halftones, color | Including color photographs | 0 | |
| 05 | Line drawings, black and white | | 0 | |
| 06 | Line drawings, color | | 0 | |
| 07 | Tables, black and white | | 0 | |
| 08 | Tables, color | | 0 | |
| 09 | Illustrations, unspecified | | 1 | |
| 10 | Halftones, unspecified | Including photographs | 1 | |
| 11 | Tables, unspecified | | 1 | |
| 12 | Line drawings, unspecified | | 1 | |
| 13 | Halftones, duotone | | 1 | |
| 14 | Maps | | 1 | |
| 15 | Frontispiece | | 1 | |
| 16 | Diagrams | | 1 | |
| 17 | Figures | | 1 | |
| 18 | Charts | | 1 | |
| 19 | Recorded music items | Recorded music extracts or examples, or complete recorded work(s), accompanying textual or other content | 1 | |
| 20 | Printed music items | Printed music extracts or examples, or complete music score(s), accompanying textual or other content | 1 | |
| 21 | Graphs | To be used in the mathematical sense of a diagram that represents numerical values plotted against an origin and axes, cf codes 16 and 18 | 4 | |
| 22 | Plates, unspecified | ‘Plates’ means illustrations that are on separate pages bound into the body of a book | 4 | |
| 23 | Plates, black and white | ‘Plates’ means illustrations that are on separate pages bound into the body of a book | 4 | |
| 24 | Plates, color | ‘Plates’ means illustrations that are on separate pages bound into the body of a book | 4 | |
| 25 | Index | | 5 | |
| 26 | Bibliography | | 5 | |
| 27 | Inset maps | Larger-scale inset maps of places or features of interest included in a map product | 7 | |
| 28 | GPS grids | GPS grids included in a map product | 7 | |
| 29 | Glossary | | 28 | |
| 30 | Table of contents | Only for use in ONIX 3.0 or later | 41 | |
| 31 | Gazetteer | Geographical index. Only for use in ONIX 3.0 or later | 57 | |