Dingbats are different than your regular font - for a start, they
do not contain any alphabets! Type a character like the capital
A on the keyboard and you might find an illustration on the screen.
Yes, dingbats are fonts that contain illustrations rather than alphabets
and numbers. Such illustrations can contain just one single fill
color since they are basically font outlines.
Look at this screenshot that contains some of my favorite dingbats.
I love dingbats but have always found it difficult to manage them.
Often, I need to use some dingbat character in a design and it makes
no sense to have the entire font installed all the time - that's
so much more true when you have zillions of these fonts!
For a long time, I've been looking for a product that can take
an uninstalled font and export a single character to the clipboard
as a vector illustration. Font
Xplorer from Moon Software is a perfect solution. Moon Software
is based in Estonia and my contact for this tutorial was Ahto Tanner
- thank you, Ahto.
For the rest of this tutorial, I'm assuming you have Photoshop
and Font Xplorer installed on your system. You can download a demo
version of Font Xplorer from the Moon
Software site...
If you need dingbats, here are links
to some dingbat sites...
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