Wingdings
Fonts for dingbats (decorational glyphs and symbols) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Webdings.
Wingdings is a series of dingbat fonts that render letters as a variety of symbols. They were originally developed in 1990 by Microsoft by combining glyphs from Lucida Icons, Arrows, and Stars licensed from Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes.[1] Certain versions of the font's copyright string include attribution to Type Solutions, Inc., the maker of a tool used to hint the font.
Quick Facts Language(s), Definitions ...
Language(s) | Dingbat ornaments |
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Definitions | UTC L2/12-368 |
Classification | Pi fonts |
Other related encoding(s) | Webdings, Zapf Dingbats, Bookshelf Symbol 7 |
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None of the characters were mapped to Unicode at the time; however, Unicode approved the addition of many symbols in the Wingdings and Webdings fonts in Unicode 7.0.[2][3]