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What are clear, intuitive tile sets that help beginning players understand what all is on the map?

Tiles are spread across two different sets: character sets are the ASCII and graphics sets are the creatures.

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Phoebus' Graphic Set comes both packaged with DF and separate.

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I'm actually thinking of switching to this, just for the materials icons. It makes it really easy to see iron, lignite, etc, etc. – C. Ross Jul 14 '10 at 13:21

Mike Mayday's graphical character set is one of the more popular sets, including both characters and tiles.

Example of the pack

One benefit is that he ships a zip of DF already set up with his graphics package.

It is available from his website here.

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I'm not using it at the moment, but Ironhand's Graphics Set looks gorgeous!

Tileset

Dwarves

I couldn't find any good shots of it in action, though…

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