A big thick question mark

Question

I'm using \ding{52} and \ding{56} from the pifont package to get nice satisfying thick ticks and crosses. I'd like a question mark ? that fits with these. \textbf{?} is too small, and not thick enough. (And ideally, I'd like it to be a bit more "hand drawn".)

Does anyone have a suggestion? (Either a way to get a ? that looks good with the pifont ticks and crosses, or a way to do all three in a consistent way other wise?

Here's an example of the code I'm using.

  \begin{itemize}[<+->]
  \item[\onslide<+->{\ding{56}}] Foo
  \item[\onslide<+->{\ding{52}}] Bar
  \item[\onslide<+->{\ding{52}}] Stuff
  \item[\onslide<+->{\textbf{?}}] Things
  \end{itemize}

Answer 1

My best suggestion would be to try to find a free font that has a ? that goes well with those. I happen to think the ? found in Abyssinica SIL is a nice enough fit:

(Or maybe it's just that when I fired up my font previewer to find a ? that looked right, it was the first one alphabetically, and I was too lazy to continue.)

Since it's from SIL, that's a open font license/free font, but of course it hasn't been packaged for LaTeX. If you're using XeLaTeX, of course, it's easy enough to get it. If you're committed to sticking with pdflatex, you could create a tiny PDF just containing that character and stick it in with \includegraphics.

Answer 2

OK, I totally like my other answer better, but I guess you might also consider the one from Cyklop. That's part of TeXlive. Here it is in italic.

Code:

 \documentclass{article}
 \usepackage{pifont}
 \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

 \begin{document}
   \begin{itemize}
      \item[{\ding{56}}] Foo
      \item[{\ding{52}}] Bar
      \item[{\ding{52}}] Stuff
      \item[{\fontfamily{cyklop}\selectfont \textit{?}}] Things
   \end{itemize}
 \end{document}