Looking for a cool fantasy font / icons


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Hello, fellow gamers!

Lately in my free time I've been working on a board game that could be classified as a modern dungeon crawler. From the design standpoint, it has very few connections to the likes of Pathfinder or D&D, but I'm pretty sure it would easily appeal to that kind of players because of the strategic opportunities players can take advantage of during the game. This is why I'm posting on the Paizo messageboards.

At about 40 pages in Word, the game is 50% complete.

The game is going to use variations of custom 6-sided dies, and I'm looking for an adequate font or icons containing symbols to represent events in the game. These symbols would then be pictured on the dies and in the text of cards players are going to encounter during the game.

The following is required:
Melee attack symbol - Something along the lines of two crossed swords
Ranged attack symbol - Bow and arrow
Action symbol - Something to represent that an ability has an action cost

Strength symbol - A single sword or fist
Agility symbol - A foot or something similar
Willpower symbol - A brain or a face with a circular symbol on the forehead
Knowledge symbol - A book

Skull symbol
Two other random diabolical symbols, like pentagrams or chaos sigils

The fonts and symbols won't be used for commercial purposes, but private only just to make the first draft version look appealing. Also, to players that see a connection to the board game Descent: Journeys in the Dark - I assure you that this would work completely differently ;)

If anyone could point to the font or an icon pack that fulfills most of these requirements, I would be very grateful :)


You could try looking up the icons for powers from the tabletop miniatures game Warmachine/Hordes. They have icons on the cards that might fit that description.


Currently my favorite Font site is dafont.com where I find all kinds of thematic fonts for use the maps I create. Look at both themed fonts and dingbats for non text symbols.


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Thanks for the recommendations!

I've managed to find this for Warmachine, and it does have most of the symbols that are needed.

Rummaging through dafont.com, I didn't find the fonts that suit the game, but these M:tG edition symbols might actually come in handy: Planeswalker Dings

Searching over Google some more, I actually did find an interesting font with symbols that would probably find use in the game: Fourth Edition

None of the fonts/icons have all the required symbols, but if they're combined together, all the requirements would be met!

Once again, many thanks for the help, guys!


I stubled uppon this:
http://game-icons.net/

BTW, to merge icon fonts and pick only those you really need you can use https://icomoon.io/app/#/select
There are tons of icons ready to use, but you can also import icons from SVG and i think even TTF file.

I saw some fonts in the largest icon font I've seen so far: http://www.webhostinghub.com/glyphs/
And it is joy to work with because of the way ligatures are setup there. You can just type the name of the icon like 'heart' for ♥ and it replaces the letters with an appropriate symbol. Unreal!

Also, if you need something really special. There is always http://thenounproject.com/
There is a limit for daily downloads, but if you can work with a console (f12) you can easily bypass that.

Webstore Gninja Minion

Blambot is awesome as well, though you may want to check their license terms for your project.

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