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Desktop Fun: Happy New Year Icon and Font Packs
With the Christmas holiday so near, New Year’s Eve and Day will not be far behind. To help you prepare for those New Year’s Eve and Day celebrations we have put together a nice collection of fonts for party invitations, fliers, decorations, and more. We also have icon goodness to make your desktop all bright and shiny for the new year.
Happy New Year Icons and Fonts
Sneak Preview
This is the New Year’s desktop that we put together using the Birthday Icon Set shown below.
Note: The original unmodified version of this wallpaper can be found here.
An up close look at the icons that we used…
The Icon Packs
Note: To customize the icon setup on your Windows 7 & Vista systems see our article here. Using Windows XP? We have you covered here.
New Year Celebration Icon Set
*.ico format only
New Year Party Icon
*.ico, .png, and .icns format
Note: This icon is available for download in single file format (based on format type and/or image size).
Celebration
*.ico format only
Birthday
*.ico, .png, and .icns format
Special Note: While not an official New Year’s set of icons, it will still work nicely for a New Year’s or celebration desktop setup.
The Font Packs
Note: To manage the fonts on your Windows 7, Vista, & XP systems see our article here.
Cocktail Bubbly
Fontdinerdotcom Sparkly
Confetti
KR Happy New Year 2002
Note: For those who are curious about this font’s shape, it is a cork popping out of a champagne bottle.
NewYearBats
*includes 52 individual characters
Note: This group represents A – Z in all capital letters.
Note: This group represents A – Z in all lower case letters.
LCR Party Dings
*includes 26 individual characters (A – Z), not case sensitive
Special Note: This font is an all-purpose type that covers a variety of party/celebration types from New Year’s to birthdays.
More New Year’s Goodness for Your Desktop
Desktop Fun: New Year’s 2013 Wallpaper Collection [Bonus Edition]
Desktop Fun: New Year’s 2012 Wallpaper Collection [Bonus Edition]
Desktop Fun: Happy New Year Wallpaper Collection [Bonus Edition]
For more great ways to customize your computer make sure to look through our Desktop Fun section.
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Comments (4)
Akemi Iwaya (Asian Angel) is our very own Firefox Fangirl who enjoys working with multiple browsers and loves 'old school' role-playing games. Visit her on Twitter and Google+.
- Published 12/21/10
to some of the people i know, this will be used year round
Good Work Angel . But its too early i think this pack to post on 31 december 2010 or 1 january 2011 ;)
@LoverBoy – Thanks. ^_^ I try to get the whole trio (fonts, icons, and wallpapers) of holiday stuff out and available at least 1 – 1.5 weeks before each holiday. That way people will have time to gather their favourite items from each and then have a whole week to enjoy the custom desktop setup they create.
I always find it SO discouraging when I see websites wait until the last nine seconds before publishing something for a holiday…by then it is pretty much too late to enjoy it at all or for no more than a day or two at most. :( So right now everyone can be enjoying the new custom Christmas desktops they made and yet be preparing for their New Year setup ahead of time. ^_^
@ Asian Angel . Nice i havent thought to that site. just great