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  Dingbat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A dingbat is an ornament or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a "printer's ornament".
The term continued to be used in the computer industry to describe fonts that had symbols and shapes in the positions designated for alphabetical or numeric characters.
Although fonts claiming Unicode coverage will contain glyphs for dingbats in addition to alphabetic characters, fonts that have dingbats in place of alphabetic characters continue to be popular, primarily for ease of input.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dingbat   (226 words)

  
 Dingbat at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A dingbat is a ornament or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a "printer's ornament".
Cartoonist George Herriman had a newspaper comic strip called "The Dingbat Family", as it was originally of a small size so that printers could use it to fill space on the comics page like a dingbat.
Dingbat is also a slang term, no longer widely used, to describe someone who has a silly, foolish, or clownish demeanor.
www.wiki.tatet.com /Dingbat.html   (247 words)

  
 parole: dingbat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Modernist buildings tend to extremes of articulation and heterogeneity of tectonic expression tend to be Dingbats, as the modernist design process values unconstrained invention over emulation or urban determinants.
P.N.D. Codes attempt to preclude Dingbats except with public and civic buildings, which are expected to be fully expressive of the institutions they embody.
The dingbat houses were a great improvement over the squatters' camps, but the ragged construction style created hazards of its own.
parole.aporee.org /work/print.php?words_id=511   (343 words)

  
 Dingbat fonts at Typephases Design - the notepad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Dingbats are vector drawings encapsulated as a font file (truetype or type 1).
Typephases’ original dingbats, the Whimbats and other, such as the Antypepatics and Lletraparits, Feedback and the Fazzes and Deskspace series, include more than a thousand illustrations that cover every theme you can come up with.
Since the dingbats usually come parcelled in themes, you have a very easy to find and use collection of illustrations.
www.typephases.com /dingbats.html   (933 words)

  
 SimplytheBest Fonts dingbat fonts
A dingbat font with 27 popular jet fighters, helicopters and larger aircrafts.
An Asian dingbat font with a collection of traditional Japanese themes.
A dingbat font with 26 images related to characters and themes from the circus.
simplythebest.net /fonts/dingbats.html   (98 words)

  
 Pure Confection Dingbat Fonts & Objects | Purchase Designer Dings or Download Free Fonts
Dingbat fonts are wonderful time-saving design aids that put a plethora of possibilities at your fingertips.
From frames to tiles, these original dingbats can be used for a variety of web graphics, personal or commercial.
Freeware dingbat fonts are only available as Windows TrueType.
www.pureconfection.com /fonts.shtml   (164 words)

  
 PSP tutorial - fancy borders
The dingbat will be cropped to size and the background filled with the yellow background colour.
He too is a dingbat - from Listemagerens Dingbats, keystroke upper case U - and he too has been treated with Blade Pro in much the same way as the border dingbat, except that he had no outlines to colour.
Below is the same dingbat, looking very different, but only the colour of the Blade Pro lights and the texture height have changed here.
www.fortunecity.com /westwood/armani/268/psptut2   (1235 words)

  
 SimplytheBest Fonts dingbat fonts free dingbats font downloads
A dingbat font with over 60 images related to food and cooking.
A dingbat font with 26 themes related to Halloween.
A TrueType dingbat font created to provide a means for teaching sign language.
simplythebest.net /fonts/dingbats_3.html   (100 words)

  
 Dingbat fonts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Gorgeous dingbats from Easter Island harvested and fontisized by Georgia Lee and Alan Drake in 1998, and sold for 25 USD in the Easter Island Foundation's Rapanui Dingbat font.
Zapfino (a calligraphic typeface designed by and named after renowned typeface designer Hermann Zapf for Linotype, based on an example he first drew in 1944): Zapfino utilizes the most advanced typographic features of the truetype format, and is partially included in OS X as a technology demo for ligatures and character substitutions.
The dingbat metafont BBDing (1999) was originally published by Karel Horak and later modified by Peter Møller Neergaard.
cgm.cs.mcgill.ca /~luc/dingbats-orig.html   (7363 words)

  
 Design by Fire: Personal dingbats
However, the colorful asterisk dingbat is quite nice, presuming it to be a combination of the arrow in the FedEx logo and the letter "K" in Kinko's.
A great dingbat design and one that works amazing well as a marker for the stores themselves.
I've always been keen on dingbats used to promote a brand heavily, taking on a life of its own away from the type treatment of the logo itself.
www.designbyfire.com /000093.html   (2567 words)

  
 Dingbat Technology
Dingbat Technology is an IT Consulting Company located in Sydney.
Dingbat Technology will help you get the most out of technology - we call this Business Improvement Technology.
All logos are trademarks of their respective owners, and are used with permission as part of a registered partner/reseller program.
www.dingbat.net.au   (209 words)

  
 Dingbat archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Visit also her font archive, and her dingbat archive.
There are some new dingbat fonts, such as Woolbats (occult symbols), Hippy (hippy symbols), Modebats (Depeche Mode dingbats), and City (Skyline).
Renae's archive specializing in dingbats, music, fonts for children, handwriting, holidays, old typewriters, and gothic fonts.
cgm.cs.mcgill.ca /~luc/dingbats-arch.html   (2436 words)

  
 Visual Sonnets:  Incised Decorations with Dingbats
This tutorial uses the same sorts of dingbats as the previous one (Delightful Dingsbats).
This is another interesting dingbat which looks too plain, as is. If you just Blade Pro it, it makes a nice decoration, but its still sort of "light weight".
Open another image of the same size, and lay down the same dingbat, but now use anti-aliasing.
www.fortunecity.com /victorian/byzantium/260/moony.html   (436 words)

  
 Dingbat Magic by Maureen Williams
This tutorial is a combined effort after Linda Buckmaster from PSP Buddies, who had sent in a beautiful stained glass image to the group, received many requests for instructions but wasn't sure how to go about writing a tutorial.
This was where I stepped in as I had promised my group I would write up instructions for colouring dingbat fonts.
These basic instructions can be used on any dingbat font, with minimal changes.
www.eggerspsp.com /dingbat_magic.htm   (695 words)

  
 Using that Dingbat!
you should already have a dingbat font file unzipped and transloaded by the time you are here but if you've ended up here by some other way and need to learn how to grab a dingbat font file and unzip it you can go Back Here...
when you use a regular font for a banner you know all the characters used because it is the same but when you use a dingbat font those same letters, numbers and symbols on your keyboard represent a certain picture..
when you have the dingbat pictures (or maybe just a few of them) but do not have the characters displayed with them you will have to play with it a little and see what letter, symbol, and/or number represents what and WHERE they are...
d21c.com /temp/pages4/usingdingbats.html   (1071 words)

  
 Dingbats - Brain Benders - NESTA Brain Games - at-Bristol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A lot of dingbats depend on prepositions like above and below, over and under, before and after.
In some dingbats, the shape of the word is important.
To have a go at creating your own dingbats, click here.
www.at-bristol.org.uk /Education/nesta/bender_dingbat.htm   (137 words)

  
 Dingbat Mask Frame Tutorial
Some of the decorations in the masks they use reminded me of dingbat font characters.
The only thing other than PSP7 you must have to do this tutorial is a dingbat font.
Please read this information first to make your tutorial time more productive and answer some of your questions about dingbat fonts.
www.wallek.com /monica/psptut/framemasks/index.shtml   (910 words)

  
 the Dingbat pages
Award winning graphics software for creating, composing and optimizing both vector and bitmap graphics.
Dingbats: Design Elements to Go by Wendy Peck
Terms for use and distribution for all fonts are contained within the zip files.
www.dingbatpages.com   (571 words)

  
 What is dingbat? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
A small picture, such as a star or a pointing finger, that can be inserted into a document.
Many sets of dingbats are available as a special font.
One of the most popular is Zapf dingbats, named after its creator, Hermann Zapf.
www.webopedia.com /TERM/D/dingbat.html   (77 words)

  
 Dingbat - 3D Dingbats by Shirley Kaiser: Production Graphics with Wendy Peck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Dingbat Technology Dingbat Technology is an IT Consulting Company located in Dingbat Technology will help you get the most out of technology - we call
The most famous Dingbat on television was undeniably "All in the Family" wife Edith Bunker,
Quick-finder for dingbats: links to over 2000 individual fonts listed alphabetically, with nearly 250 downloadable from our archive.
webinfofeed.com /wifd/dingbat.htm   (396 words)

  
 3D Dingbats by Shirley Kaiser: Production Graphics with Wendy Peck at webreference.com
In one of life's little ironies, Shirley's tutorial is based on working with dingbats.
Shirley takes the simple dingbat and turns it into a stunning 3D graphic, all with a little graduated fill work, and a little Eye Candy "magic."
There is a wealth of information in these pages, and your work cannot help but improve when you can breathe life into a little dingbat as you will see here.
www.webreference.com /graphics/guest/3d_dingbats   (424 words)

  
 Dingbat's
In particular we have links to Dingbat's job opportunities, Dingbat's clipart and some dating fun for those Clipart fans wants to meet somebody interested in Dingbat's.
We offer Dingbat's employment with companies that can help you with a Dingbat's career.
Dingbat's careers offer you opportunities in Dingbat's positions and Dingbat's wanted classifieds.
www.clipartslide.com /Clipartslide/Dingbats   (181 words)

  
 Using Dingbat Fonts to Create Logos
If you have jagged circles and/or diagonal lines, one way to get around them is to install a dingbat font with the shapes you need.
This is a type of font that uses small pictures instead of letters.
Just use your font tool, choose the dingbat font you have, and type in the letter that would create the picture you want (The first dingbat picture would be "A", the next "B", and so on).
www.pageresource.com /graphics/grtut1.htm   (476 words)

  
 Dingbat This
He is also a member of GILD click on Banner to be taken to site.
Open your font and dingbat in PSP, minimize.
Click on your canvas and enter the Capital letter S. Using the nodes on the Vector, stretch your dingbat to fill your entire canvas.
www.sophisticatsimonepsptutorials.com /dingbat_this.htm   (468 words)

  
 Radio Dingbat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Video Dingbat is taking a break this (Good) Friday.
This episode features New Rules For Boats and their unique blend of rocking indie pop and laid back country twang.
This epsiode features an interview and live footage of Jens Lekman from his intimate solo show at Perth's Rosemount Hotel on the 8th of March.
radiodingbat.blogspot.com   (1912 words)

  
 Dingbat to Divider
For this tutorial you are going to need a dingbat called
We want the dingbat in the middle so...with the cursor, move over the dingbat
Now you can drag your dingbat to the middle of your image.
www.100megspop2.com /tutorials/dingbat01/dingbat01.htm   (232 words)

  
 free fonts
Welcome to DingbatDepot.com : DingbatDepot.com is the largest source of free dingbat fonts on the internet today.
All dingbat fonts on this site are free (shareware or freeware) and available for immediate download.
To start downloading the free dingbat fonts, select one of the links from the left hand navigation panel: either Alphabetically or by Category.
www.dingbatdepot.com   (77 words)

  
 Pure Confection Dingbat Fonts & Objects
Ready made pieces can save you time, and spark your creativity.
dingbat fonts were created with the web designer in mind.
Each font comes with characters to make complete web sets, complete with matching frames, buttons, and divider bars.
www.pureconfection.com   (131 words)

  
 DingBat Magazine: The Monthly Review of Cool Tools: Hardware, Handhelds, PDAs, Camcorders, Digicams,Software, Books, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
DingBat Magazine: The Monthly Review of Cool Tools: Hardware, Handhelds, PDAs, Camcorders, Digicams,Software, Books, Mobile Computing, FlashandMore!
Our April Tools issue is an annual Rite of Spring in Charlottesville.
DingBat Magazine is created with Adobe professional products.
www.dingbatmag.com   (255 words)

  
 Dingbat Painting Tutorial
I chose Captain Raider's Printorn Dingbats (all his dingbats and fonts are unzipped and ready for use)...
if you want a good variety of dingbats already unzipped and ready to use I suggest you go to Captain Raider's Font Repository this place not only gives you the dingbats but it also provides a printable page that shows the dingbat pictures the file offers (thank you Jon!)
House of Lime has some awesome dingbats but you have to unzip the files to use them and they are only free to use for non-commercial sites!
d21c.com /temp/pages4/dingbat_tute.html   (1074 words)

  
 Dingbat
Type of software font that has various symbols such as a arrows, stars, and various other symbols.
One of the most commonly used dingbat is the Zapf Dingbat.
Were you able to locate the answer to your questions?
www.computerhope.com /jargon/d/dingbat.htm   (38 words)

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