Have Fun With Dingbats
From animal shapes to flowery flourishes, let these wacky fonts turn your Type tool into a handy clip-art repository.
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James
January 24, 2011 at 8:47 am
This incredible tutorial opens up a whole new frontier of creativity. Dingbats, Webdings, etc. had been a total mystery until I read this article.
Thank you, Diana, for a very educational tutorial!
Diane
January 25, 2011 at 3:41 pm
Just read “Have Fun with Dingbats” and downloaded a few to play with.
Something I’m not understanding ….. how to use a dingbat font in like Facebook or Flickr (to make comments). I also don’t understand in the Character Map how the corresponding letter and/or number to the dingbat is used. For example, if the star dingbat I want to use is the letter B in that font and it shows U+0061 as the corresponding letter/number how do I put that down???
I’m not sure if I’m making myself clear …. I hope so!
I tried to copy/paste the dingbat that I wanted to use into Facebook or Flickr but what it puts down is the alphabet that it stands for!
Anyway, it was an interesting article and I did find quite a few dingbat fonts that I liked.
Thanks!
Diana
January 30, 2011 at 8:20 pm
Thank you, James, for your kind comments.
Diane, I don’t believe dingbats can be used in comments on sites like FaceBook and Flickr. Thanks for your nice remarks about the article.
Diana