18 Free Dingbat Fonts Great for Interface Design
Operating a computer is quite easy nowadays. We all click our way through our desktops, we all know how to open our e-mail or how to save files in folders. Working with computers has become such a common practice that we barely realize how these actions are framed by metaphors.
Behind our personal computer we are all disciplined office workers. Yet, while most operating metaphors are drawn from an office setting, we have no problem when they blend with metaphors from other settings, such as home, play, menu, or window. Reading these metaphorical signs—no matter whether they come as words or pictures—and using them as tools usually goes on seamlessly: “what you see is what you get.”
If you are looking for a quick and easy fix for symbols or icons, using dingbat fonts can help you save lots of time. Dingbats are symbols and shapes that are created to describe fonts in the position designated for alphabetical or numerical characters. Remember to take extra care on your choice of symbol. They should be understandable and intuitive.
Here are 18 Dingbat fonts available for free. Bookmark them for your next interface project!
18 Dingbat Fonts suitable for Interface Design
Icon is a Visual Sign
Icons function by iconic condensation: a condensation of reference and meaning into one visual sign. This is the kernel of our contemporary graphical user interfaces: translating machine processes into human-readable signs, and translating user action into machine-readable processes. Remember that icons should not save space at the expense of user understanding.
Do you have more dingbat symbols and icons to share? Please leave them in the comment box!
Those Notice Dingbats are great looking.
And I love Fontsquirrel.
They are very nice way cool
And Happy Thanksgiving don't eat to much
Awesome! I like fonts because they're easily resized and colors can be changed easily. This is a great list. Just stumbled.
Thanks a lot..
Love you for this!!! Saves a lot of time..
BIG BIG THANKS
This would save a lot of time used on design process.
BUT...
I was wondering about the license here.
It stated in the article that "it's free."
How Free is it ?
Free to be used for commercial project too?
Clarification on this will be helpful, at least it eliminates the confusion,
so people like me and countless other would know what to do, and what not.
Thanks again
I'm also interested to know if this are also free for commercial projects...thanks for raising up the question, hope we'll get answers..nice collection
Some of the icons have their license mentioned above the download button as an indication. After downloading, please look at the readme-files in the zips for further instructions from the author. Please also check the author's website in the readme-files for more details, and contact him/her if in doubt.
Thanks. It's good that I did follow your blog. I will take note of that.
Great collection, thanks for sharing and thank you for listing my symbol signs collection.
Thanks for sharing this information. I found it very informative as I have been researching a lot lately on practical matters such as you talk about it.
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