I am working on a manual, book size body type and I have a lot of bullet lists that I am currently using round bullets or dashes for, to indicate a new item. Are there any alternative typographic devices?
Typophile
alternative for bullet list
Stakan,
are you using ID? Which version?
ID offers automatic paragraph bullets. You define this in the paragraph style and may choose the bullet from any glyph in any font. There are many glyphs which can be used as bullets in fonts like Warnock, Arno, Minion, Meta Serif and so on (bullets, arrows, hands, asterisks, flourishes etc.)
Most ornaments are too demonstrative to use as bullet substitutes, especially for long lists.
For something slightly different, these are the bullets in FF Oneleigh Pro:
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