Font check marks

30th December 2013

Few designers know how to create a check mark which will look good with typography, icons and user interface. Most professional fonts do not have check marks, and when they do — they are just awful:

Arial

Lucida Grande

Minion

Capitals

Meyrio

Centro Slab

To make things right, the bureau designed good check marks – or galochki [ˈgɑːloʧkɪ] in Russian – for popular fonts:

Check marks in EPS

Check marks are free for any purposes if you send us a link, a photo or a screenshot of how you use them (galochki@artgorbunov.ru).

The bureau designed check marks for the fonts that do not have ones of their own. We call for font designers to create check marks for all families and faces they design.

Unicode symbols

2713

Check mark

2714

Heavy check mark

2611

Ballot box with check

With empty Ballot box 2610

Good to know

When placing a check mark inside a geometric form, consider that the optical center of the symbol is not in the middle, but on the vertical of the bottom

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To make the check mark stand out in text, make it bigger than the letter case