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

Picture Fonts

Picture fonts, where each character is a little picture, can be used in oh so many ways. Similar to dingbats, you can use them as bullets. Or instead of a dotted or dashed line, try a line made of a picture font character or a combination of characters. Use them as borders, as clip art, as custom art. You can make them very small, add space between them, or even change their color easily.

Picture fonts are great for quick, easy, and inexpensive logos. You can enlarge a picture character to the maximum size in your program, sometimes as large as I8 inches. You can change their color, condense or expand them, kern them, and build them right into the text of the logo. If you know how to use a program like Fontographer from FontLab, ...