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

Dingbats as Bullets

Another occasion to take advantage of the baseline shift feature is when using dingbats or ornaments. Suppose you have a list of items and you really want to use a fancy dingbat from the Zapf Dingbats or Wingdings font, instead of using the boring ol’ round bullet (or—heaven forbid—a hyphen). But the dingbat character is usually too big. When you reduce its size, though, the dingbat is too low because the character is still sitting on the baseline. So select the character and shift it higher up above the baseline.

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