30 Dingbat Fonts Great for Graphic Design
Dingbat fonts can be very useful to graphic and web designers. Dingbat fonts are symbols and shapes that are created to describe fonts in the position designated for alphabetical or numerical characters. If you do not know yet how to use dingbat fonts in your designs, then you should start learning and collecting them since they are great time-savers. For example, you can easily design logos and icons using the simple shapes and pictures found in dingbat fonts. Most dingbat fonts can be used as your starting point in designing more complicated designs using programs such as Illustrator or Corel. You can alter a dingbat font (or any other piece of clip art) by flipping or rotating it. You can also add color to give dingbat fonts a new life. Or, you can also combine two dingbat fonts to create a new image such as logos and other illustrations.
In this roundup, we decided to put together a total of 30 very useful dingbat fonts that you can use in designing almost anything. Most of these dingbats are symbols that you can use in interface designs while some are decorative elements that you can use for creating designs for web, publications and other printed materials. Most of these dingbat fonts may be used for both personal and commercial purposes. please check out the individual licenses as these may vary from time to time or from one author to another.
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DINGBAT FONTS 01-SexyRexy Smitten
Type: True Type, Holiday
License: Freeware
DINGBAT FONTS 02-Notice
Type: Open Type
License: Freeware
This set of dingbats includes symbols that you can use especially for designing product packaging or labels.
DINGBAT FONTS 03-Glyphyx
Type: Open Type
License: Freeware (Free for personal and commercial purposes)
This series of free fonts features symbols and icons for use in information graphics. Glyphyx One includes symbols related to transportation, while Glyphyx Two includes symbols related to leisure activities.
DINGBAT FONTS 04-Travelcons
Type: True Type
License: Free for personal use only
This set includes symbols and icons related to travel and transportation.
DINGBAT FONTS 05-Symbol Signs
Type: Open Type
License: Freeware (Free for personal and commercial use)
This set includes common used symbol signs for public services such as Toilets, Telephone, First Aid, Elevator, Information, Restaurant, Coffee Shop, Smoking, Baby, Recycle Icon, Shower, Reception desk, Arrows collection and much, much more. The symbol signs can be used for restaurant signage, hotel signage, airport signage and more. The complete symbol collection is optimized for reproduction methods such as engraving, laser engraving/cutting, screen printing and self adhesive film to manufacture the signs you need.
DINGBAT FONTS 06-Dingbests
Type: True Type
License: Freeware
We’re all familiar with the dingbat fonts that are standard on many computers. But having been designed in the sixties they’re beginning to show their age. For this reason FontShop International commissioned the designers Johannes Erler and Olaf Stein to make a collection of icons for the nineties. The result is FF Dingbats, over 700 pictograms including fax, laser printer, diskette, computer and mouse, as well as all the classic images. A special selection of them has been put together in the single font FF Dingbests.
DINGBAT FONTS 07-Floralia
Type: True Type
License: Freeware
Includes pretty flowers, foliages, swirls and other ornaments for any designs.
DINGBAT FONTS 08- RoadSign and Warnings
Type: True Type
License: Shareware
DINGBAT FONTS 09-Cart-o-Grapher
Type: True Type
License: Freeware
DINGBAT FONTS 10-Ding Dongs signs o’the times
Type: True Type
License: Freeware
DINGBAT FONTS 11-DJ Horses
Type: True Type for PC/Mac
License: Freeware
DINGBAT FONTS 12-Santiago Icono
Type: True Type for PC/Mac
License: Freeware
DINGBAT FONTS 13-Evils
Type: True Type
License: Freeware
DINGBAT FONTS 14-Hazard
Type: True Type
License: Freeware
DINGBAT FONTS 15-Davys
Type: True Type
License: Freeware
DINGBAT FONTS 16-Kalocsai Flowers
Type: True Type
License: Freeware
DINGBAT FONTS 17-Butterflies
Type: True Type
License: Freeware
DINGBAT FONTS 18-WM Designs
Type: True Type
License: Freeware
DINGBAT FONTS 19-Eutemia Designs
Type: True Type
License: Freeware
DINGBAT FONTS 20-We Spray
Type: True Type
License: Freeware
I spray, you spray, we spray! 73 shapes to make your graphic world a better place!
DINGBAT FONTS 21-Celtic Motif
Type: True Type
License: Freeware
DINGBAT FONTS 22-Rally symbols
Type: True Type
License: Freeware
This font is especially created to help those who want to create infographic for an automotive sport theme, in particular rally. The font has standart rally signs, additional pictograms and drawings that can help a designer to create their own compositions.
DINGBAT FONTS 23-Mail Art Graphics
Type: True Type
License: Free for personal use only
DINGBAT FONTS 24-Dead Letter Office
Type: True Type
License: Freeware
DINGBAT FONTS 25- Tattoo Parlor
Type: True Type
License: Freeware, non-commercial
DINGBAT FONTS 26-Skylines
Type: True Type
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
There is one piece of skyline for every letter. The part in the preview with the moon on it is the “M”.
DINGBAT FONTS 27-Recycle It
Type: True Type
License: The license information for this font is unknown
DINGBAT FONTS 28-Schluss Vignetten
Type: Open Type
License: Freeware
DINGBAT FONTS 29-Flaming Stars and Splatters
Type: True Type
License: Free for personal use
DINGBAT FONTS 30-Split Splat Splodge
Type: True Type
License: Free for personal use only
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