The holidays are almost over, but winter’s just begun. So if you’re in need of some snowflakes for a seasonal design, check out an oldie but a goodie: the free snowflake font from P22 Type Foundry.
Be advised the font is 10 years old and does not come in a cross-platfrom OpenType version, so you’ll have to pick Mac or Windows. You’ll also need something like Stuffit Expander to expand the compressed file.
Along with the font, you can also check out P22’s Tip of the Month from December 2002, which shows how to make your own snowflakes from almost any geometric image or dingbat. The tutorial uses the dearly departed Freehand, but you could easily adapt it for Illustrator, Quark, InDesign, etc.
Speaking of InDesign, a few years back InDesignSecrets had a tip on Making Snowflakes with InDesign.
And finally just to show you really can make snowflakes out of just about anything, check out the video from Deke’s Techniques in which Deke McClelland makes a Halloween Scareflake in Illustrator out of ghostly skeleton shapes.
This article was last modified on July 29, 2021
This article was first published on December 27, 2012
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