1 / 8About Hourglass Font
Picture yourself laying out a wedding invitation suite and needing decorative elements that feel personal, hand-drawn, and genuine. Hourglass, designed by Ketsarin, is a dingbats font that fills that gap with sketched timepiece imagery spanning multiple weights, including outline versions for flexible coloring and layering effects. Its organic quality gives your designs character without feeling overly formal or stiff.
This font shines in several applications where time, urgency, or countdown resonates with your message. Wedding invitation suites benefit from the dingbat elements, which add visual rhythm without overwhelming the text. Personal project labels and DIY craft signs gain personality from the hand-drawn hourglass and timer illustrations. Business presentations and pitch decks can use the time-related symbols to underscore urgency, deadlines, or project phases. Event countdown graphics, wine bottle labels, greeting card designs, and boutique packaging all work well with this sketched aesthetic, where intentional roughness reads as authentic rather than amateur.
The dual solid and outline versions give you flexibility to layer, colorize, or use them as standalone marks. Working across Procreate, Affinity Designer, and other design software, this font adapts whether you need polished results or intentional rawness. Grab it on Creative Fabrica and add it to your arsenal for any project requiring a time-related concept or playful countdown element.
Style & Use Cases
- Overall Style
- Iconographic, Fonts
- Use Case
- Icons, Accents
- Ideal For
- ornaments, bullets, and decorative flourishes
- Pairs With
- any text font
How to Install Hourglass Font
Step-by-step instructions for every platform
- 1Download the Hourglass font file (.ttf or .otf).
- 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
- 3Right-click the font file.
- 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
- 5Hourglass is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
More by Ketsarin
View all →More Dingbats Fonts
Browse all →What pairs well with Hourglass Font?
Hourglass Font is a versatile dingbats font that works for both headings and body text. Pair it with a contrasting sans-serif or serif font to add visual interest and a clear distinction between titles and body copy.
Hourglass Font
by Ketsarin
Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team · Updated June 2026















