Free ornaments font

Question

I'm looking for a free ornaments font. I know about webomint and pifont. Where can I find more glyphs?

Answer 1

You can't miss adforn font. Use \usepackage{adforn} to access the glyphs. See manual of the package for the commands.

There are still other fonts including ornaments (not in The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List), for example, linux-libertine (libertine package).

Answer 2

fourier offers ornamental glyphs, specifically fourier-orns. A short example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fourier-orns}
\begin{document}
\Huge
\textxswup\textxswdown
\decoone\decotwo
\decothreeleft\decothreeright
\decofourleft\decofourright
\floweroneleft\floweroneright
\end{document}

There are more, have a look at the fourier-orns example pdf file.

Answer 3

There is also pgfornament. This is not a font - any more than pst-vectorian is a font. Rather, it consists of code for drawing ornaments using PGF.

While not on CTAN, it is readily available and, I think, quite popular because, unlike its pst- predecessor, it can be straightforwardly used with pdfTeX. It is available as pgfornament.zip.

A sampler:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfornament}

\begin{document}
  \tikzset{
    pgfornamentstyle/.style={scale=.25}
  }
  \foreach \i in {1,...,89} {\expandafter\pgfornament\expandafter{\i}\ }
\end{document}

Answer 4

If you are using XeTeX or LuaTeX, you can use anything from Font Squirrel's dingbat list, which lists some nice ones.

Answer 5

umrandb and umranda are not listed here:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fonttable}
\begin{document}
\section{umranda}
\fonttable{umranda}
\subsection{Usage}
\verb|\font\umranda=umranda \umranda  \char35 --- | \font\umranda=umranda
\umranda  \char35
%
\newpage
\section{umrandb}
\fonttable{umrandb}
\subsection{Usage}
\verb|\font\umrandb=umrandb \umrandb  \char114 --- | \font\umrandb=umrandb
\umrandb  \char114
\end{document}

Answer 6

I think that pst-vectorian really needs a shout-out here. It's got some stunning ornaments.

The DRM font also has some interesting ornamental possibilities. (Disclaimer: I'm the author of DRM, and my opinion of it is correspondingly biased.)

Both have demonstrative documentation.

Answer 7

The Comprehensive LATEX Symbol List (PDF 358 pages) by Scott Pakin https://ctan.org/pkg/comprehensive

Answer 8

The novel package contains a font NovelDeco.otf, which includes a small number of ornaments designed for such places as underneath chapter titles, in a work of fiction. The decorations are not for math. SIL Open Font License, so you can use the font in commercial works.

Since fontspec is required to access the Open Type characters, you need to compile with LuaLaTeX (maybe XeTeX).

Although the number of decorations is small, they have the advantage of having several weights per glyph. So, you can select lighter weights when the glyphs are shown at larger scales.

If you use novel document class, there are special commands for accessing the glyphs. But without using novel you can still access the glyphs, using fontspec.