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Working with picture fonts

Working with picture fonts

From the course: Type Tips

Working with picture fonts

- [Instructor] In this week's Type Tip I'm going to talk about symbol fonts. Dingbats, circled numbers, icons all of that good stuff. Let's begin with dingbats. Now all of these are fonts of editable type so we need to think in terms of going beyond the 26 letters in upper, and lowercase, and the punctuation marks, and the numerals. Fonts can also be pictures. The venerable dingbat set is called Zapf Dingbats. You almost certainly have it on your computer. It was designed by famous typographer Herman Zapf in the 1980s and I'll put my cursor into that text. We'll go to the Glyphs panel, and we see lots of really useful things here. Some of which, admittedly, look a little bit dated like the telephone and some of which maybe look a little cheesy, but many of them are very practical. I particularly like the solid square. I find that very useful as an end of story marker. The check mark and the X if you're creating a list of dos and don'ts, and I also really like the quote mark which is…

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