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This paper aims at scrutinizing data bases used by architects for rendering their projects and for convincing of their proposals. It focuses on catalogs of human beings by the way of which architects populate their imageries. These catalogs are based on specific treatments that become recently the object of a whole industry, named “People Texture” or “People Marketing”. Small beings inhabiting these catalogs are inserted in digital images in order, explicitly, to give them the sense of scale and more realism. Appearing progressively in the history of architectural representations since the beginning of the 20th century, they are among the tools used by architects, and catalogued as well, to animate their projections: decorum of all kinds, cars, skies, trees, and so on.