Font Library: Fantasy Maps

[RobA]

BtW: Does anybody know of a dingbat font for map icons? Like a font that has castles, towers, cities, boats, sea monster, compass rose, etc, etc... I think that would be really useful because of a font's vector scalebility.

For more symbolic things, a nice font is Bullet Balls AOE on this page (plus a lot of other interesting symbols there.

Attached is a sample...

And some of the other dingbat/wingding fonts have basic symbols, like a plain compass rose....

-Rob A>

[Paul]

You can't go wrong with the Crazy Diamond font line (don't worry, it's short). They're all historical fonts. You've probably seen them before, actually, since the creators also created many of the paper props from the Harry Potter films (Italic Hand is Dumbledore's penmanship).

http://www.crazydiamond.co.uk/fonts/fontlist.html

17th Century Print is excellent for map notes on a legend.

The Paul Llyod collection is also worth browsing:
http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/lloyd/

I especially like Graphis and Hominis (I can't direct link, but you can get to them easily from the above link).

[ravells]

The crazy diamond font set is fantastic! Great find, Paul!

[FlatEarth]

You can't go wrong with the Crazy Diamond font line (don't worry, it's short). They're all historical fonts. You've probably seen them before, actually, since the creators also created many of the paper props from the Harry Potter films (Italic Hand is Dumbledore's penmanship).

http://www.crazydiamond.co.uk/fonts/fontlist.html

17th Century Print is excellent for map notes on a legend.

The Paul Llyod collection is also worth browsing:
http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/lloyd/

I especially like Graphis and Hominis (I can't direct link, but you can get to them easily from the above link).

The Crazy Diamond fonts are beautiful, but a little too expensive for me. You get what you pay for, I guess.
The Paul Lloyd font site is great, I will have to dig around a little bit in that one.

One of my favorite sites for fonts is Scriptorium
http://www.fontcraft.com/csa/fontcraft.php
They also sell their fonts, but you can often find a freeby to try out.