dingbats – Variable Fonts

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dingbats

Variable fonts tagged with “dingbats”

18 results

Wavefont

  • ĈĉċĊĉċčīıēģĹĶIJĺķĺĺijĽijĶĵĦČģĹĪĞĠĝġđČĐĤĨijħģĚģĢıĞĢİķīİijķĴIJĪĬģęĬķĦĒěěėďĒĚĪĢēČċěĩĘđēĞĝĚČčĖħĨĝđđĒīīĚďĕĚġĔċċĖĭİĮğĔĢĤĮĪĘįĹĵĶijįĸııijĢĚĭĥĪıĦĦĨĤĪġĤĴĭĵįĐĕĠĤħĦ
    ĨĩĪĶĶIJĹIJįĮĪķĺĵĹĶİIJįĪİĨĮĩġĤĜğĘğīĞęīĬĹĶĨįIJİijĪıİİĸĴĶĮĭijĵĭīĨĭħĬįĵijĶįĤĨģĥĝĘĠĦIJĮĦıİįĸįıĵİĭİĩĬĢģħħīěĜġġĠĞĦĩīĹĵĺĶİĮĭİIJīīģĕĒČČďĐđċčďčċċċĉĉċĉĉĈĈċčėįĢĥłĻIJ
1 108
0 1
0 50

A variable font that can be used for rendering charts by mapping data values to Unicode characters.

Tags: dingbats, modular, monospaced, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, pixel, unusual variation
Design:Dmitry IV.
Publisher:Dmitry IV.
Characters:dingbats/emoji
Released:2021-02-26
Licensing:Open source

Linefont

  • ĞĠģĦĨīĭįıijĵĶĸĸĹĹĹĹĸķĶĴIJİĭĪħĤġĞěĘĕĒďčČĊĊĉĉĊċČĎĐĒĔėęěĝğĠĠġĠğĞĜĚėĔđĎċĈąăĂāāāĂĄĆĉČďĒĕĘĚĜĞğğĞĜĚĘĕĒĎċĈĆăĂāāĂĄĆĉČďēĖęĜĞğĠĠĠĞĜĚėēĐčĊ湥㥥ĆĈĊčĐĔėĚĜğĠġġġĠĞĜĚėĔđčċĈĆĄĂĂāĂăĄĆĈĊČďĒĔĖĘĚěĝĝĞĞĝĜĜĚęėĖĔēđĐďĎčččččĎďđĒĔĖĘĚĜĞġģĥħĨĪīĬĭĭĭĭĬĬīĩĨĦĥģġĠğĝĝĜĜĝĞğġģĦĩīįıĴķĹĺĻĻĻĺĸĵIJįīĨĤġğĝĜĝĞĠĢĦĩĭİijĴĵĵijİĬħġĜĖđĎċĊĊČĎĒĖęĜĞĞĝěėēĎĊćąąĆĊĐėĞĦĬıĴĵĴıĭĨĤĠ
    ĝĝĞĠģħĪĬīĩĤĞĖĎćĂĀĀ ăĉĐĘĠħīĭĭĪħģğĞĞğģħĬįıİĬĦĞĕčĆāĀĂĆčĕĜģĨĪĪĨĤġĞĜĝğĤĩĮIJĴijİīģĚĒĊąĂāĄĉďĕěĠģĤĤġĞěęėĘĚĞĤĩįĵĸĺĺķijĭħĠęĔĐĎčĎĐēėĚĝğğğĝĚėĒ ĎĊĆăāĀāĂąĈČĐĔĘěĞĠġĢġĠĞĜęĖēĐčĊĈĆĄĂĂāāĂĂăąĆĈĊČĎĐĒĕėĚĜğġĤħĪĬįIJĴĶĸĹĻĻĻĻĺĹķĴıĮĪħĤġğĞĝĞğġĤĨĬįijĵķķĵIJĮĨĢěĕďċĉĈĊčđĕęĜĝĝěĘĔĐččďēĚģĬĴĹĻĺĵĬģęđČĊČĐĖěĞğĝĚĖĕĖěĢīIJķĶİĦęČăĀăČĘĤĬİįĪģĞěěĞġĢğęĒċĊĎĘĥIJĺĺIJĤĕĈĂąĎĚĥ
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A variable font that can be used for rendering line chart data by mapping data values to Unicode characters.

Tags: dingbats, modular, monospaced, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, pixel, unusual variation
Design:Dmitry IV.
Publisher:Dmitry IV.
Characters:dingbats/emoji
Released:2021-02-16
Licensing:Open source

Whirly Birdie & Whirlybats

  • Whirly Birdie
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 0123456789
  • Whirlybats
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÇĆΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΦΨΩͰϚϏАБВГДЕЁЖЗabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzéòóôõöøōžɋʠṕλοτφχψωϊͱϟϗϻабвг0123456789⁄!#*,./:;?\¡·¿•…·"'«’()[]{}-_–&@|¦§©®°¶†‡™☁☌⚑$¢£¤¥€%+<=>~¬±^×÷‰∂∅∏∑−√∞∫≈≠≤≥↑→↓←╋◊◚`΄
100 200
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50 150
0 20

A bouncy sans inspired by mid-20th-century American advertising, paired with an ambitious set of animatable dingbats that can be looped using font variations.

Tags: decorative/display, sans, all caps, animation, cartoon, dingbats, gothic, multiplexed, multiplexed posture, unusual variation, variable posture
Design:Alex Tomlinson
Publisher:Ursa Minor
Characters:Latin, dingbats/emoji
Released:2020-11-18
Licensing:Paid/commercial

Service Gothic Variable

  • ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
    $0123456789
    ☞☚🖝👈↣
200 700

An homage to wonky casual lettering found in everyday settings. It maintains consistent ‘multiplexed’ glyph widths across its weight variants, allowing for weight changes without text reflowing. Offered with discounted pricing while it’s still a work in progress.

Full disclosure: This typeface was designed by the editor of this website.

Tags: decorative/display, sans, all caps, brush, cartoon, dingbats, feature variations, flat brush, gothic, monoline, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, overbite/underbite, sharp, vertex spread
Design:Nick Sherman
Publisher:HEX Projects
Characters:Latin, dingbats/emoji
Released:2020-10-06
Updated:2021-02-02
Licensing:Paid/commercial

SF Compact

  • SF Compact
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789
    ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ
    αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρσςτυφχψω
    АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ
    абвгдежзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя
  • SF Compact Italic
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789
    ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ
    αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρσςτυφχψω
    АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ
    абвгдежзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя
  • A selection of SF Compact’s dingbats/emoji
    ⇪⌃⌅⌘⌥⌦⌧⌫⎇⎋⎓⏎⏏⏻⏼⏽⏾ⒶⒷⒸⒹⒺⒻⒼⒽⒾⒿⓀⓁⓂⓃⓄⓅⓆⓇⓈⓉⓊⓋⓌⓍⓎⓏ☂★☆☑☒✚☮☾♠♡♢♣♤♥♦♧⚀⚁⚂⚃⚄⚅⚠⚬✈✌✓✗❄❛❜❝❞⬒⬓⬡⬢⭘🄰🄱🄲🄳🄴🄵🄶🄷🄸🄹🄺🄻🄼🄽🄾🄿🅀🅁🅂🅃🅄🅅🅆🅇🅈🅉🅐🅑🅒🅓🅔🅕🅖🅗🅘🅙🅚🅛🅜🅝🅞🅟🅠🅡🅢🅣🅤🅥🅦🅧🅨🅩🅰🅱🅲🅳🅴🅵🅶🅷🅸🅹🅺🅻🅼🅽🅾🅿🆀🆁🆂🆃🆄🆅🆆🆇🆈🆉🐇🐉🐍🐏🐔🐖🐭🐮🐯🐱🐴🐵🐶🐻👊👍👻👽👾💀💩😀😘😜😬🤖🤟🦄
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Part of Apple’s San Francisco type series, SF Compact is similar to SF Pro but has more compact proportions for efficiency in small sizes and narrow columns. It is the system font for watchOS.

Tags: body text, sans, dingbats, monoline, neo-grotesque, optical sizes
Design:Apple
Publisher:Apple
Characters:Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese, dingbats/emoji
Released:2020-06-22
Updated:2021-06-08
Licensing:Bundled

Tilt

  • Tilt Neon
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
    ←↖↑↗→↘↓↙☺☹♡☆🎱🎳🔑✂👞📷🍕🍷🎵
  • Tilt Prism
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789
  • Tilt Warp
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789
-45 45
-45 45

A set of 3 typefaces inspired by the dimensional lettering found in storefront signage, all with similar underlying proportions and the ability to simulate rotation in multiple directions.

Tags: decorative/display, sans, geometric, dimensional, dingbats, flared/concave, gothic, inscriptional, monoline, multi-line, multiplexed, multiplexed posture, neon, outline, ornamented, rotation, rounded, unusual variation, variable posture
Design:Andy Clymer
Publisher:Andy Clymer
Characters:Latin, Vietnamese, dingbats/emoji
Released:2020-02-01
Updated:2020-12-10
Licensing:Open source

GT Alpina

  • GT Alpina
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789
  • GT Alpina Italic
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789
  • GT Alpina Typewriter
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789
  • GT Alpina Typewriter Italic
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789
  • A selection of GT Alpina’s dingbats/emoji
    ☕☜☝☞☟✊✋✌👆👇👈👉👊👋👍🖐🖕🙌🤙🤚🤞🌚🌝🌞
    🌀🌐🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘✆❔❕⚐⚑📤📥🔝➢➣➳➿⬠⬡⬦⬨⬪⬫⬭⬯⭒⭔
    ①②③④⑤⑥⑦⑧⑨⓪⓿❶❷❸❹❺❻❼❽❾
    ←↑→↓↔↕↖↗↘↙↤↥↦↧↩↪↫↬↯↰↱↲↳↴↶↷🔄↺↻⇄⇅⇆⇇⇈⇉⇊⇐⇑⇒⇓⇔⇕⇖⇗⇘⇙⇵
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​A serif type series with quirky details. Each font includes a set of variable dingbats/emoji.

Tags: decorative/display, body text, serif, ball terminals, dingbats, monospaced, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, optical sizes, overbite/underbite, soft corners
Design:Reto Moser
Publisher:Grilli Type
Characters:Latin, dingbats/emoji
Released:2020-01-15
Updated:2020-12-02
Licensing:Paid/commercial

Clarette

  • ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789
50 200
0 100

A unique, high-contrast sans with distinctive incisions at stroke intersections. Offered with discounted pricing while it’s still a work in progress.

Tags: decorative/display, sans, didone, dingbats, ink traps, pinched joints, sliced, variable posture, woman-designed
Design:Sláva Jevčinová
Publisher:Into the Type
Characters:Latin, dingbats/emoji
Released:2019-08-29
Licensing:Paid/commercial

Halvar Flex

  • Halvar Flex
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789
    АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ
    абвгдежзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя
    ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ
    αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρσςτυφχψω
  • Halvar Stencil Flex
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789
    АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ
    абвгдежзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя
    ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ
    αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρσςτυφχψω
10 160
50 150
0 24
10 50

An industrial sans with nods to typefaces based on blunt geometry like DIN 1451. Ilya Ruderman, Yury Ostromentsky, and Maria Doreuli consulted on the Cyrillic. Kostas Bartsokas consulted on the Greek. Alphabet Type assisted with post-production.

The variable versions of Halvar are currently in beta stage and available by request.

Tags: sans, geometric, dingbats, gaspipe, gothic, monoline, multiplexed, multiplexed posture, multiplexed weight, straight-sided, variable posture
Design:Lisa Fischbach, Jakob Runge, Nils Thomsen, Paul Eslage
Publisher:TypeMates
Characters:Latin, Cyrillic, Greek
Released:2019-06-25
Licensing:By request

Width & Vertical Width VF

  • かなABC漢字
    あAB漢字12
1 1000
1 1000

A special-purpose font that demonstrates the relationships between variable “width” axes for use with different writing directions. For example, horizontal layout is typical with Western characters (represented as hollow rectangles in this font), but vertical layout is often used with some Asian characters (represented as solid rectangles), and it’s possible to combine aspects of both in different ways. This can make the relationship between different glyphs’ width, height, and rotation complicated. Ken Lunde explains more in the article introducing the font.

Tags: CFF, dingbats, proof of concept, monospaced, polygonal, rectangular, straight-sided, unusual variation
Design:Ken Lunde
Publisher:Adobe
Characters:dingbats/emoji, Pan-Unicode
Released:2019-06-19
Licensing:Open source

White On Black VF

  • White On Black VF
  • Black On White VF
1 1000

White On Black VF is a special-purpose variable font with just one glyph (㊎) demonstrating an issue related to the non-zero winding rule used for rendering fonts. The issue is especially problematic when negative glyphs are reversed out of a positive background shape. The weight axis also shows how the technique for avoiding the problem with static fonts – removing overlaps – isn’t a viable solution for variable fonts because the topology of overlapping shapes may change across variations. The counterpart font, Black On White VF, is made with the same shapes but with an additional circular path, showing how the issue is not present with more typical positive-on-negative glyphs. The fonts were produced by Ken Lunde using a glyph designed by Ryoko Nishizuka.

Tags: sans, CFF, dingbats, proof of concept, multiplexed, woman-designed
Design:Ryoko Nishizuka
Publisher:Adobe
Characters:East Asian / CJK
Released:2019-05-28
Licensing:Open source

Adobe Blank VF & Friends

  • Adobe Blank VF
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
  • Adobe Black VF
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
0 1000
0 1000

A set of special-purpose variable fonts based on Adobe Blank and Adobe Blank 2, intended to render all Unicode characters / code points using variable glyphs. Adobe Blank VF renders all code points with empty space, and Adobe Black VF renders them with a variable rectangle. The “2” versions of the fonts are produced in a way that is more data-efficient, but may not be supported in all environments. In those cases, the plain Adobe Blank VF and Adobe Black VF fonts can be used. Ken Lunde explains more in the article about the fonts.

Tags: CFF, dingbats, monospaced, polygonal, rectangular, straight-sided, unusual variation
Design:Ken Lunde
Publisher:Adobe
Characters:dingbats/emoji, Pan-Unicode
Released:2019-05-06
Updated:2019-06-19
Licensing:Open source

Waba Border

  • AAAAAAAAA
0 100
0 100

​An Art Nouveua border font, part of the Waba type series. The font includes automatic start and end glyphs via OpenType contextual alternates, plus an optional face glyph accessible via OpenType stylistic alternates.

Tags: decorative/display, Art Nouveau, dingbats, psychedelic, rectangular, soft corners
Design:Lewis McGuffie
Publisher:Lewis McGuffie
Characters:dingbats/emoji
Released:2018-05-10
Licensing:Free for non-commercial use, Free for commercial use

Variable Poo Demo

  • 💩
100 900

The world’s first variable color font release, containing only one character: the pile of poo emoji ?. (If the poo appears all black and/or doesn’t move with the slider, your browser doesn’t fully support variable color fonts yet.)

Tags: decorative/display, animation, cartoon, color, dingbats, proof of concept, unusual variation
Design:Roel Nieskens, David Jonathan Ross
Publisher:PixelAmbacht
Characters:dingbats/emoji
Released:2017-01-24
Licensing:Open source

Zycon

  • ☀🕛🚴🦎🦉🏵🔒⌚🖐🐕🐢🐈✯🌝⬤➟💡
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
-1 1
-1 1

Zycon demonstrates the flexibility of variable fonts to manipulate forms beyond the typical axes of typographic variation. It comes from the first generation of GX variable fonts in the early 1990s, and was more recently revived to test support for OpenType font variations technology.

Tags: decorative/display, animation, cartoon, dingbats, proof of concept, rotation, unusual variation
Design:David Berlow
Publisher:Font Bureau
Characters:dingbats/emoji
Released:2016-09-08
Licensing:Open source

SF Pro

  • SF Pro
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789
    ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ
    αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρσςτυφχψω
    АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ
    абвгдежзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя
  • SF Pro Italic
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789
    ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ
    αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρσςτυφχψω
    АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ
    абвгдежзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя
  • A selection of SF Pro’s dingbats
    ⇪⌀⌃⌅⌘⌥⌦⌧⌫⎇⎋⎓⏎⏏⏻⏼⏽⏾ⒶⒷⒸⒹⒺⒻⒼⒽⒾⒿⓀⓁⓂⓃⓄⓅⓆⓇⓈⓉⓊⓋⓌⓍⓎⓏ
    ★☆☑☒☾♠♡♢♣♤♥♦♧⚠⚬✈✓✗❛❜❝❞⭘
    🄰🄱🄲🄳🄴🄵🄶🄷🄸🄹🄺🄻🄼🄽🄾🄿🅀🅁🅂🅃🅄🅅🅆🅇🅈🅉🅐🅑🅒🅓🅔🅕🅖🅗🅘🅙🅚🅛🅜🅝🅞🅟🅠🅡🅢🅣🅤🅥🅦🅧🅨🅩🅰🅱🅲🅳🅴🅵🅶🅷🅸🅹🅺🅻🅼🅽🅾🅿🆀🆁🆂🆃🆄🆅🆆🆇🆈🆉
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SF Pro is the core of Apple’s San Francisco type series. It is the system font for macOS, iOS, iPad OS, and tvOS.

Tags: body text, sans, dingbats, monoline, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, neo-grotesque, optical sizes
Design:Apple
Publisher:Apple
Characters:Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese, dingbats/emoji
Released:2015-06-12
Updated:2022-03-31
Licensing:Bundled