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First time here? please see the FAQ.
Please read this before you submit questions.

All fonts are in PC truetype format.
Macintosh Users click here. All fonts, to the best of our knowledge, are either freeware or shareware. If anyone knows otherwise please notify us. All fonts have been collected from around the web and have been maintained with all files intact.

Have you made a dingbat font? Would you like to add it to our site? See the Contact page for details.

Full Character Sets: when you see this icon following the name of a font click it for a pop-up window showing the FULL character set.

	ALIEN - sci-fi, alien scripts and non-terrestial type dings
	ANCIENT - historical, foreign scripts, heraldry
	ARROWS - pointers, geographic symbols and maps
	ARTS-MEDIA - music, TV, cable and film
	BEINGS - people, hands, faces, Sign Language
	BUSINESS - government symbols, pie charts and corporate logos
	'COOL-DINGS' - post-modern, in other words, "cool dingbats"
	CREATURES - cats, dogs, insects, pets and more
	ESOTERIC - astrological symbols, runes, i ching hexagrams etc
	'FONTBATS' - our own category - dingbats included with "regular" fonts and/or unique fonts doubling as dingbats
	GAMES - puzzles, mazes, sports, and more
	GENERAL - all-purpose dings featuring cursors, squares, circles, pencils, folders, etc
	HOLIDAY - Christmas, Halloween, Valentine's Day
	ORNAMENTS - borders and other decorative symbols
	SPECIALTY - dingbats with an exclusive theme, everything else not listed above

Great Graphics Software from Xara

Xara Xtreme

Award winning graphics software for creating, composing and optimizing both vector and bitmap graphics. Offers the fastest rendering in the business, unrivaled on-screen graphics quality and a clean, slick user interface that makes it a pleasure to use. A great value choice for both professional web and print work.

Xara Xtreme Pro

Xara Xtreme Pro is the perfect choice for professional design work, ideal for both print and the web. Pro offers the same power and flexibility as Xtreme, whether you're working with bitmap or vector graphics, with the addition of features most likely to be used by professional designers. These include PSD import and export, enhanced PDF and PDF/X export, multi-page support, color separation and Pantone support, a photo levels control tool and more. And it can produce animations too, including animated GIF and Flash.

Xara Xtreme Plug-ins
Xara Xtreme's great new Live Effects tool allows Photoshop and Xara plug-in effects to be applied to both photos and vector graphics, opening up a huge range of special graphical effects. Get more great graphical effects with some significant discounts on some of the best commercially available plug-ins.

Xara ScreenMaker 3D

Create 3D screensavers in seconds; ScreenMaker 3D is fast, fun and easy to use. Create animated 3D text message screensavers with your own personalized message or put images of your choice onto the sides of a 3D tumbling cube screensaver - ScreenMaker 3D accepts a wide variety of image formats including AVI movies. It's the perfect way to share messages or images with friends, family or colleagues - from family photo screensavers to business screensavers with corporate logos.

Xara Font CD
Contains 120 True Type Fonts and the full version of Xara ScreenMaker 3D.

Xara 3D

Xara3D is a 'slimware' program designed to produce high quality 3D headings, banners and animations. It offers very high performance, high quality results, and is the simplest, quickest 3D program you will ever use.

Xara Menu Maker

Create professional, high-quality NavBars & DHTML menus at the click of a button. Menu Maker includes over 250 top-quality graphical navbar designs which can be easily customized. All necessary JavaScript and HTML is automatically created for you.

Xara WebStyle

The aim of Xara WebStyle is to make the creation of professional quality web graphics quick and easy for anyone, regardless of skill levels. You simply create your own graphics by customizing any one of the extensive collection of ready-made WebStyle template graphics, designed by professional artists.

WebStyle Template Packs
Download additional ready-made graphics including Web Page, Heading, Banner Ad, NavBar and Button templates for WebStyle.

Xara Graphic Studio

Xara's three most popular graphics titles - Xara Xtreme, Xara3D and Webstyle - in one great value bundle, offers everything you need for creating still and animated 2D and 3D graphics for print and the web, including your everyday photo work.

FontLab: The Digital Type Design Toolkit
Makers of the best PC & Mac font-editing tools and utilities including:
FontLab Studio - The best you can buy - a professional's font editor.
Fontographer - for both beginners and professionals.
FogLamp - Fontographer source file converter.
TypeTool - Basic font editor - Good for quick, small jobs.
TransType - Universal font converter for Mac and Windows.
ScanFont - Turns bitmap images into font glyphs. Great for handwriting fonts, logos, clipart.
BitFonter - The first full-fledged bitmap font editor.
FONmaker - The bitmap font creator - generates bitmap fonts from outlines.
FontFlasher - converts almost any format font into a "pixel" TrueType font.
SigMaker - Put your signature into a truetype font.
AsiaFont Studio - the premier two-byte (Unicode/CJKV) font editor.
CompoCompiler - creates composite fonts automatically.
Photofont Start - free plugin to use photofonts in Photoshop and other compatible applications.

Recommended Dingbat Resources:
or what to do with them now that you have them...

3D Dingbats: Bringing a Dingbat to Life by Shirley Kaiser

Dingbats: Design Elements to Go by Wendy Peck

3D FX using Xara 3D at Fonts & Things
(includes free source files)

AFFILIATES:

All graphics on this site are © the Dingbat pages. Terms and Conditions revised: March 2004.
Terms for use and distribution for all fonts are contained within the zip files.