Text animation presets applied to non-text objects

[John Baum]

I have used dingbat fonts for this purpose

[Joseph W. bourke]

As ghobii above said, dingbat fonts are the way to go. There are dingbat font sets that have boxes, stars, bullets, just about anything you could imagine. Here’s one place to get some of them:

https://www.dingbatdepot.com/fonts_category.asp?ID=Various

By the way, you can also use the advanced character set of some of the more common typefaces to get at various symbols and shapes. Just use the Character Map utility in Windows (if you use Windows); it will show you the advanced characters that are available in a font, beyond the ABCs.

Joe Bourke
Art Director / WMUR-TV

[Dwaynne]

don’t forget house of lime: https://www.houseoflime.com/ for dingbat fonts