Do you like dingbats? I do love dingbats. Most of the time I rip them off and use them as vector graphics. All you have to do is type the dingbats in Adobe Illustrator, select the text then go to Type > Create Outlines, instant vector clipart. Dingbats are not so popular and most people and designers take them for granted and would only use them often as bullet points. So what are dingbats anyway? Old friend wiki says:
A dingbat is an ornament, character or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a “printer’s ornament” or “printer’s character”. The term supposedly originated as onomatopoeia in old style metal-type print shops, where extra space around text or illustrations would be filled by dinging an ornament into the space then bating tight to be ready for inking.
The term is continued to be used in the computer industry to describe fonts that had symbols and shapes in the positions designated for alphabetical or numeric characters.
I’ve rounded up a few most commonly used true type font dingbats and some fancy ones for download.
Glenn on March 3, 2009
san to dederetso pag na DL na. ehehe