Looking for font with no-smoking symbol...

Felix Görz

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Jun 10, 2005, 9:12:12 AM6/10/05

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Hello,

I'm looking for fonts or a font with no smoking symbols.

Thanx,
Felix

Ambarabà Biccì Coccò

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Jun 10, 2005, 9:31:57 AM6/10/05

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"Felix Görz" <powqe...@spam.com> wrote in news:d8c3jn$r4q$01$1@news.t-
online.com:

> I'm looking for fonts or a font with no smoking symbols.
>

IMHO you can easily find a clipart instead of a font
try with google images

--
ABC

Character

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Jun 10, 2005, 10:31:33 AM6/10/05

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I agree with ABC about finding clipart instead of a dingbat/symbol font.
Preferably a vector graphic. Easier to find and more.

Nevertheless;

There are quite a few dingbat fonts with that symbol

BD International (originally from Atech)
BD Symbols (Same, from Streetwise)
Signs MT (Monotype)
Warning LH PI (Linotype or Adobe)

For free ones - go to
http://www.dingbatdepot.com/
and
http://simplythebest.net/fonts/dingbats.html

But because the particular ding you're looking for may not be in the
displayed samples (even with fontview) it may take some digging to find.

The font "INTER" from dingbat depot may have it; lots of others do to,
but it's a lot like the needle in the haystack.

- Character

Andreas Höfeld

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Jun 10, 2005, 11:24:29 AM6/10/05

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Also sprach/Thus spake Character:
> Felix Görz wrote:

>> I'm looking for fonts or a font with no smoking symbols.

> I agree with ABC about finding clipart instead of a dingbat/symbol

> font. Preferably a vector graphic. Easier to find and more.
>
> Nevertheless;
>
> There are quite a few dingbat fonts with that symbol
>
> BD International (originally from Atech)
> BD Symbols (Same, from Streetwise)
> Signs MT (Monotype)
> Warning LH PI (Linotype or Adobe)

Not to forget: Webdings :-))) (Alt-0122)
It's free and already on many computers.

Andreas

Alan J. Flavell

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Jun 10, 2005, 12:02:30 PM6/10/05

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On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Andreas Höfeld wrote:

> Not to forget: Webdings :-))) (Alt-0122)
> It's free and already on many computers.

Just a routine warning that this kind of font is incompatible with
standard HTML.

If the characters in question exist in unicode, then in HTML they need
to be referenced by their unicode code point, not by some Latin-1
character surrogate. If the character does not exist in unicode then
in principle it can't be represented in standard HTML (some partial
workarounds may be available via the PUA - but IME this can cause more
problems than it solves).

The font name "webdings" is particularly pernicious, in as much as it
hints to uninformed users that it would be a good thing to use in a
web context. Far from it. It may be perfectly fine and useful for
printing and so on, where the document, the software, and the fonts
are under the publisher's control, but for web use it's disastrous.

Of course the browser-like object from MS rides roughshod over the
interworking specifications and fools its users into believing that
what they're doing must be right, but when compared with a
www-compatible browser the consequences become evident.

The classic paper on this issue, "Font Face considered harmful" (Alis
Technologies) is a decade old now, and seems no longer to be
accessible online, although it can be found at the "wayback machine".

My own modest contribution (with link to the cited copy) is

http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/fontface-harmful.html

Recent document from the W3C: http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/

James Vipond

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Jun 10, 2005, 12:28:39 PM6/10/05

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In article <9vhqe.11246$xz2....@fe01.news.easynews.com>,
Character <Ch...@cters.italic> wrote:

> There are quite a few dingbat fonts with that symbol
>
> BD International (originally from Atech)
> BD Symbols (Same, from Streetwise)
> Signs MT (Monotype)
> Warning LH PI (Linotype or Adobe)

Here is another, with 26 variants:

http://www.dafont.com/en/font.php?file=nosmoking

Character

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Jun 10, 2005, 12:30:19 PM6/10/05

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Andreas Höfeld wrote:

> Not to forget: Webdings :-))) (Alt-0122) It's free and already on
> many computers.

Right. That's what I mean about clipart being easier :) To find the
fonts I listed I ran through my dingbats folder with Typograf - never
even thought to look at my installed fonts!

And Alan's comments are right on, too!

- Character

Felix Görz

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Jun 10, 2005, 4:56:35 PM6/10/05

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"Ambarabà Biccì Coccò" <eta_x_beta@hot_y_mail.com> schrieb:

>
>> I'm looking for fonts or a font with no smoking symbols.
>>
>
> IMHO you can easily find a clipart instead of a font
> try with google images
>
> --
> ABC

trouble is I only found crappy cliparts so far, and none in .ai or .eps -
maybe I should look again.

Felix

Felix Görz

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Jun 10, 2005, 4:56:59 PM6/10/05

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Thanks!

"Character" <Ch...@cters.italic> schrieb:

Felix Görz

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Jun 10, 2005, 4:57:36 PM6/10/05

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"James Vipond" <jvi...@wat.midco.net> schrieb:

>> There are quite a few dingbat fonts with that symbol
>>
>> BD International (originally from Atech)
>> BD Symbols (Same, from Streetwise)
>> Signs MT (Monotype)
>> Warning LH PI (Linotype or Adobe)
>
> Here is another, with 26 variants:
>
> http://www.dafont.com/en/font.php?file=nosmoking

DAnke! :)