dingbat
Sign in to savethumb|right|Poem typeset with generous use of decorative dingbats around the edges (1880s). Dingbats are not part of the text.
Key facts
- Unicode block.blockname
- Ornamental Dingbats
- Unicode block.rangestart
- 1F650
- Unicode block.rangeend
- 1F67F
- Unicode block.script1
- Common
- Unicode block.1_0_0
- 160
- Unicode block.3_2
- 14
- Unicode block.5_2
- 1
- Unicode block.6_0
- 16
- Unicode block.7_0
- 48
- Unicode block.sources
- dingbat fonts Webdings, Wingdings, and Wingdings 2
- Unicode block.symbols
- Leaf ornaments, ornamental punctuation
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Examples
- Dingbats Unicode block
- Ornamental Dingbats Unicode block
- Character table
- Dingbat fonts
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|right|Poem typeset with generous use of decorative dingbats around the edges (1880s). Dingbats are not part of the text.
In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a '''printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, specifically, a grapheme used in typesetting, often employed to create box frames (similar to box-drawing characters), or as a dinkus (section divider). Some of the dingbat symbols have been used as signature marks or used in bookbinding to order sections.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “dingbat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.