Simon Foster

Don’t Try This At Home Kids

Mar 11 2011

dingbats

I recently had great fun using @font-face, lettering.js and some dingbat fonts to make this utterly silly and ridiculous page. It is a love story told in dingbats and called Where do I begin? (which is the opening line of the theme tune to Love Story – for those who haven’t seen it).

I would however like to stress that dingbat fonts should never really be used as web fonts in the “real world” due to their lack of semantics, usability and accessibility. But they are OK to use for self-indulgent whimsical nonsense if the mood takes you.

Also, the page has inconsistent cross-platform browser support for reasons I haven’t managed to work out yet. As far as I can tell it works fine in non-webkit browsers on windows and fine in webkit browsers on OS.