Dingbats just aren't what they used to be! Designers are working double- plus overtime to bring you the coolest 'bats as easy as Command-T!
Letraset's newest groups include Primitives, Radicals, Organics, Naturals, Incidentals, and Attitudes. The 70 or more characters per set range from wood-cutty western ware to household items circa 1950 - stylized, but effective in moderation.
Or get wired with the smaller, home-brew Big Cheese collection, distributed by Emigre, consisting of 126 dings for "nothing in particular." Hey! Just what you always needed. Big Cheese comes in two flavors: light - described by designers Aufuldish and Donelan as "vaguely friendly" - and dark - for those "cranky and cynical" moments. Looky here, there's even one for our favorite expression: Plug In.
Font sets: US$89. Letraset: (800) 343 8973, +1 (201) 845 6100. Big Cheese: US$59. Emigre: (800) 944 9021, +1 (916) 451 4344, fax +1 (916) 451 4351.
STREET CRED
The Ecology of CommerceCrashin' Windows
Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum, Pick the Wallets of the Dumb
Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers
Dingbat Derby
Tumbling into the Paperless Office
