#dingbats

[wiingdings]

*(it's what they call "you".)

(please reblog instead of liking)

[jdp]

Teranoptia is a free font that generates creatures based on what you type. From the foundry:

Teranoptia is a typeface without letters, a peculiar contraption that allows you to imagine chimeric creatures just by typing letters with your keyboard. Its design has been inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and by medieval illustrations, as well as by children's books. You can use it to create border ornaments, to daydream about monsters or just to spice your layouts with marginalia.

[fontseeker]

The logo for Cheez TV (which just had its 30th anniversary) was made out of two dingbats from the font Big Cheese (1992).

Most clip art packages are really straight. We wanted to create things that had implied levels of meaning but didn't have any real meaning. You would read meaning into it, and hopefully through usage they will start to have a meaning.

The "cheeZ tv" text is in Citizen (1986).

Citizen was inspired by the results of applying automatic smoothing to a pixel font (specifically, the font Universal 8).

The only other example of Citizen that I'm aware of is the logo for Black Hawk Down.

[mrkoppa]

3 February 2026 | Der Klubhaus

Miscellaneous type ornaments AKA dingbats purchased on a whim, potentially useful in the design of The Torch (potentially forthcoming title/periodical from The Heavy Duty Press).

[hayquetenerpatience]

So, the Democrat Party... the "no kings" party... wants the dictator freed from Trump's evil talons, while the people of Venezuela are cheering the dictator's banishment from their land. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE! Fucking dolts.

[litwtc-statistics]

Dingbats, 3rd of September 2023 (Golden Era)

Episode Length: 01:09:19

Solo Episode ✖️

Num. of questions answered: 4

Fuck Count: 179

"So Here's The Thing" Count: 6

Piss Count: 3

Poop Count: 1

Cum Count: 0

Gun Count: 0

Knife Count: 0

Gold Count: 0

Cucking ✖️

Bones/Skeleton ✅

Ghosts ✅

Goblins ✖️

Draculas ✖️

Weed ✅

American Football Icon Brett Favre ✖️

Jordan B. Peterson ✖️

Tom Waits ✖️

Fourth Wall Breaking Bits Count: 2

Premise Episode ✖️

Talking About Visions ✖️

everyone thinks they're the only one pretending to be [animal] ✖️

The Sun Has a Gun ✖️

Doordash Order / Talking About Fast Food ✖️

Judaism Mentioned ✖️

Pit Mention Count: 2

Avenging A Dead Family Member ✖️

Kidnapping and Raising a Boy is the Answer ✖️

Body Modding ✅

Visual Gag Count: 3

Garthalamax-esque name ✅ (The Shadow Man)

[canon-in-too-deep]

Free Dingbat Font Book For Dinkuses

I love dingbats. When typesetting, these little guys are so so useful. They can be applied as scene dividers (dinkuses), ornaments for headers/foots, borders/frames for chapter titles, flourishes for title pages, etc. I prefer working with dingbats over images, because, since a dingbat is just another font, it can be easily added and adjusted using paragraph styles or the normal font settings. Below the break are some examples of how I've used dingbats. So I love dingbats. But I hate sorting through them to find that one perfect vintage looking line to use. Thus, I threw this sample book together in a single morning so I could see all the dingbat options I had more easily. For the file, I wanted to make the dingbats large and easy to see, and wanted to be able to pick up a page to compare one font to another. As such, this font 'book' is formatted for regular letter paper, not my usual half letter folio.

Edit: I FORGOT TO WRITE WHERE TO GET THE FONTS! 😅 All these fonts I got for free. Most of them are from either dafonts or creativefabrica. Link for my sample book for dingbats here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XU2hAu94e9tXXe5ZQFkzB6wcNcriuBUH?usp=sharing Please leave a like/reblog if this was useful!

^Dingbats for decor. I love a good splatter dingbat.

^Dingbats as ornaments in the title page.

^Scene divider example. This is also called a dinkus, which is just a delightful word!

^Another scene divider example. This was for a Cthulhu story, so I went with something that reminded me of tentacles.

^I don't normally add decorations around page numbers, but in this case I thought the flourishes worked well to compliment the whimsical nature of the book.

Anyway, these are just some of the ways I've used dingbats. Dingbats are great, they're easy to work with, and have a ton of uses for typesetting.

[moash-in-the-moat]

the episodes of litwtc I love most are the ones whose cold opening is like 20 minutes long... like oh yeah, we went on this really long tangent before getting into questions... anyways, TAKE ME HOME OFF THE ROAD TO THE SHORE-