[FDI Type Foundry] Wayfinding Sans Symbols $135

The clever and easy way to set wayfinding pictograms. Placing pictograms as single vector images makes designing signage a time-consuming task. But with this font designed by Andreas Wohlleben and its built-in OpenType intelligence using pictograms becomes as easy as typing words. All symbols will will always align perfectly to each other and to the surrounding text.
Each pictogram is available in 4 different version and you can easily assign an additional background color or turn the sign into a prohibition sign.



Typing instead of searching. With Wayfinding Sans Symbols you don’t need to scroll through endless glyph palettes to look for one symbol among hundreds of symbols. Just active ligatures and type in the mnemonic codes like #wheelchair, #parking, #toilet and so on. An overview of these codes can be found in the type specimen PDF.




Over 400 symbols—made for signage use in airports, public transport stations, office buildings, hospitals, malls, parks, sports facilities, university buildings, libraries, museums … Wayfinding Sans Symbols has a full coverage of the Unicode range “Transport & Map symbols” and a lot of additional signs that are missing in the typical wayfinding symbol sets. Beside the pictograms Wayfinding Sans Symbols also has a huge set of arrows for every possible situation and you can easily switch between the different sets using OpenType feature controls. And the enclosed letters and figures make it easy to set transport line numbers, room & storey numbers and things like that.



Unicode/OpenType—The best of both worlds. All symbols in Wayfinding Sans Symbols have a Unicode value so they can be accessed in any recent application, including browsers and word-processing apps. If you use Wayfinding Sans Symbolsin a modern OpenType-savvy design application you have also access to the clever input methods and the layer features.



Multi-colored pictograms as easy as never before. You can easily give every pictogram an additional background color or turn your symbol into a prohibition sign. Just type #fill before a sign or #ban behind it. The size of these special characters will automatically adapt to the sign of the pictogram. And by applying the OpenType stylistic set 20 the individual parts will be merged together. If you use character styles you can switch between the separated and the combined view at any time with just one click.