Wingdings
Sign in to saveWingdings 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. Certain versions of the font's copyright string include attribution to Type Solutions, Inc., the maker of a tool used to hint the font.
Key facts
- Character encoding.name
- Wingdings series
- Character encoding.definitions
- UTC L2/12-368
- Character encoding.lang
- Dingbat ornaments
- Character encoding.otherrelated
- Webdings, Zapf Dingbats, Bookshelf Symbol 7
- Character encoding.classification
- Pi fonts
- Font.name
- Wingdings 3
- Font.image
- Wingdings 3 font.png
- Font.style
- Symbol
- Font.releasedate
- 1990
- Font.creator
- Charles Bigelow Kris Holmes
- Font.foundry
- Type Solutions
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9 sectionsContents
- Versions
- Wingdings
- Wingdings 2
- Wingdings 3
- Controversy
- In popular culture
- See also
- Notes
- References
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. Certain versions of the font's copyright string include attribution to Type Solutions, Inc., the maker of a tool used to hint the font.
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.