Good Dingbat-style font on Adobe Cloud?

[amelial46071365]

Our company is slowly but surely moving towards using only Adobe Cloud fonts in our work flow. One of our new team members is having trouble with our (very old, very over-copied) versions of Zapf Dingbats and Wingdings. Are there equivilents to the Zapf Dingbat or Wingding fonts on the Cloud? 

[Dov Isaacs]

Moved to Adobe Fonts community since this isn't a general Type & Typography question.

[LinSims]

Look for fonts with unicode support. Any font supporting the unicode range U+2700 – U+27BF has dingbats built-in. Source Sans is one, and there are probably others.

Be aware that if you are using fonts produced by font foundaries other than Adobe, the font foundary may remove their fonts from Adobe Fonts. This happened with 2 or 3 foundaries back in May, and it has caused a lot of upset. For any font you want to use, particularly for branding purposes, you might want to look into getting a license from the owning foundary.

[tnixdorf@glacier]

Wow, I'm reading the replies and find them of little help. Did you ever find a simple answer or solutions? I'm in a similar boat. We have switched to mostly cloud fonts but can't figure out a font that is the equivalent to Zapf Dinbats. We are not interested in buying more fonts on top of our cloud account as I'm sure you aren't either. Let me know of any solutions you found. Thanks.

[LinSims]

He's not updating the site anymore, but Alan Wood's Unicode Resources page can probably help you find a font that supports the characters you're looking for. Most or all of the Zapf Dingbats characters have been incorporated into modern fonts with Unicode support.

ETA: And this page lists several fonts that incorporate the symbols from the Zapf Dingbats set:

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/dingbats.html

[brittp63]

I am looking for the same answers. Since Adobe is cutting me off in 2023 from using basically a font collection I have assembled over the last 25 years, I have started turning some of my Type 1 Postscript fonts into .ttf format. Excruciatingly painful and time consuming. Even with the super helpful TransType 4 app. I have actually used Fontawesome for many years inside the Adobe Products. Nice icons everyone knows for email, phone, address pins etc. As a font, for both print and web. Not having to insert a bloody picture into my copy. What can you do for me, Adobe? 

[HARSHIKA_VERMA]

Hi there,

We understand your concern. Unfortunately the Adobe Fonts library doesn’t offer a symbol font that would be a good replacement for Zapf Dingbats at this time. I’ve let our library team know that this would be valuable to you and shared your feedback.

We're sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks,

Harshika

[mastersmate]

Symbol fonts on Creative Cloud...Yes, please! 

[Karen246028390wco]

Please don't take things away without offering an alternative. We need something to replace Dingbats!

[Joel21997691debm]

I would like a good way to search for ornaments/dingbats. There are no filters to help.

[tnixdorf@glacier]

If you look at the top comment Lin Sims writes, "Look for fonts with unicode support. Any font supporting the unicode range U+2700 – U+27BF has dingbats built-in. Source Sans is one, and there are probably others."

Then lower down he gives a link to unicode numbers for those dignbats for that font. This works for PC users, I don't know if it will work for Macs. Unicode are little number codes that turn into a dingbat ounce they are typed in quickly. Long story short, Adobe does not seem to be adding a dingbat font anytime soon. Some classic dingbats are availabel as clip art in Adobestock images.

[LinSims]

There's a page with links to information on MacOS Unicode fonts, too. 🙂

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts_macosx.html

ETA: also check to see if your current fonts have a symbol variant. On Windows, at least, font families include variants for italics or bold or small caps or similar. MacOS may be the same (but I don't work on Macs, so I don't know for certain).

(And I'm she, not he. 😉 )

[brittp63]

Hello!!!

Yes, I had come across this site as well. It’s a labour of love and an excellent resource.

But it’s really not as convenient as simply picking Zapf Dingbat (or any bat for that matter) from the character dropdown.

Britt (also a she 😀)

[LinSims]

Oh, I'll grant you that. No idea what to suggest, though. I'm not a designer, I'm a technical writer, and all my fonts are installed locally.

Have you tried Segoe UI Symbol? I believe it's strictly dingbat/wingding type glyphs.

Or if something like Babel Fonts is available on the Mac, you can set the Unicode Block to show the Dingbat code block, which I think includes the Wingdings too. Then you can just copy and paste.