#dingbats for dinkuses

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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.

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Free Typesetting Resources

Font Book

Dingbat Book for Dinkuses

Typesetting Template (Affinity, Letter Folio): Notes for Typesetting Template and Tutorial for Typesetting Template

Fonts: Body Fonts

Fonts Part 2: Drop Caps

The Blue Fairy Book (Font Sampler Edition) edited by Andrew Lang

Free Public Domain Typesets [In order of upload date]:

Persuasion by Jane Austen

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Merry Adventures of Robinhood by Howard Pyle (Illustrated)

Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Illustrated)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Illustrated)

The Odyssey by Homer

Tales of Space and Time by H. G. Wells

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

The Book of Dragons by E. Nesbit (Illustrated)

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne (Illustrated)

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

Leave it to Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse

Lord Peter views the body by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson

Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie

Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

The Blue Fairy Book (Font Sampler Edition) edited by Andrew Lang

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Personal Typesets (My Fics)

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