Sporadic (age-related) cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) alongside with neurodegeneration is the most common cause of cognitive impairment and dementia, and the cause of about a fifth of all strokes worldwide. According to the provided STandards for ReportIng Vascular changes on nEuroimaging (STRIVE, 2013), features seen on neuroimaging include recent small subcortical infarcts, lacunes, white matter hyperintensities, perivascular spaces, microbleeds, and brain atrophy. We describe each of these features in details, including definition, underlying pathology, location, shape, size and differential diagnosis. We also provide common and less common examples of SVD neuroimaging portraits and other brain pathology to differentiate with.