Dwarf Fortress Character and Graphics Sets [closed]

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.

Solution 1:

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

Legend

Solution 2:

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

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

It is available from his website here.

Solution 3:

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

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