Non-Designer’s Type Book, The, Second Edition

Chapter 26. Ornaments & Dingbats

Ornaments and dingbats are delightful and easy ways to add visual interest to your pages. They are simply little decorative elements you can set along with your type because they are characters in the font. OpenType fonts and expert sets often have ornaments as extra characters. You can also buy entire sets of them as typefaces. What’s the difference between ornaments and dingbats? It’s a fuzzy line, but you might ...