The Esri US Forestry 2 font contains graphic glyphs rather than alphanumeric glyphsįonts can be used to create what are called character marker symbols in ArcGIS. For example, font you choose to use for the English language may not contain diacritical marks that would be required for another language.įigure 1. Be aware that not all fonts contain all the characters in another font. All fonts contain glyphs, but in some fonts the glyphs are pictorial rather than alphanumeric (figure 1). You’re probably familiar with fonts such as Arial or Times New Roman. Things are a little different for 3D symbols and symbols in cartographic representations, so here we are really focusing on fonts for 2D standard symbols in ArcGIS.Ī font is a complete set of characters in a particular size and style of type. We also discuss the need to install fonts so that symbols display correctly and to embed fonts in shared output documents. In other blog entries, we discuss colors and pictures in ArcGIS symbols. Here, we discuss fonts used in character marker symbols, marker line symbols, and marker fill symbols. In this article, we focus on fonts for standard 2D symbols in ArcGIS. There are three primary building blocks of standard symbols in ArcGIS – colors, fonts, and graphic files.
