Heydings Common Icons by Heydon Pickering is a dingbat face built as an icon set you type rather than import. Only one style ships here, a Regular, and the drawing leans toward programming and interface motifs with geometric, decorative and comic notes mixed in. Typing icons has a practical upside: the shapes scale and take color the same way text does, so a single glyph works at 14 pixels in a nav bar and again at 400 pixels on a wall print.

That makes it useful for developer documentation sidebars, section dividers in a technical blog, engineering conference slide decks where each bullet needs a small mark, and terminal themed sticker sheets or laptop decals. Since the tags put it under Display and Headings rather than body copy, treat each glyph as a standalone graphic element and give it room. One weight means there is nothing to pair against inside the family, so contrast has to come from size and spacing. Letterspacing matters more than usual with a face like this, because icons set tight read as clutter. Pair it with a plain grotesque or a mono for any actual reading text, and let the icons carry the personality on their own.

Heydon Pickering released it under the Open Font License, which means it is free to use in both personal and commercial work, and the files download directly from this page.