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Holiday Dingbats

By Jacci Howard Bear, About.com

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Dingbats for the Holidays

Dingbat fonts can extend your clip art collection. Holiday dingbats feature images for holidays such as Christmas, Halloween, or Valentine's Day.
Using Holiday Dingbats: As with any clip art image, use restraint and don't fill a document with too many bits and pieces of clip art. Many of these fonts work best at large sizes. Use one or two appropriate characters to dress up fliers, party invitations, or newsletters. Use a graphics program to colorize individual characters.
Free Holiday Dingbats to Download:
Each page includes an image and information about the font and font author as well as the download links.

AOS Valentine Holiday
lots of hearts and cupids

10 Lil Ghosts
like the name says, ten ghosts

Gargoyles de France
for Halloween and other uses, rats, skulls, monsters

GroovyGhosties
letterbats of ghosts, some letters are hard to decipher but good to use just as ghosts, not letters

Halloween Borders
use alone or create decorative borders of bones, jack-o-lanterns, graves

iLL oCtoBer
black cats, snakes, monsters

iLL oCtoBer 98
more monsters and such

Monster Party
movie monsters like Frankenstein, Dracula, and more

Pumpkinese
for Halloween or Thanksgiving, letters in each pumpkin silhouette

Skullz
all kinds of skulls and bones

More Free Fonts to Download:
Dingbat Fonts Index | Free Fonts Library

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