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Wingdings. Wingdings is a TrueType dingbat font included in all versions of Microsoft Windows from version 3.1 [4] until Windows Vista/Server 2008, and also in a number of application packages of that era. [5] The Wingdings trademark is owned by Microsoft, [4] and the design and glyph order was awarded U.S. Design Patent D341848 in 1993. [6]
Zapf Essentials is an update to the Zapf Dingbats family which consists of 6 symbol-encoded fonts categorized in Arrows One (black arrows), Arrows Two (white arrows, patterned arrows), Communication (pointing fingers, communication devices), Markers (squares, triangles, circles, ticks, hearts, crosses, check marks, leaves), Office (pen, clock, currency, scissors, hand), Ornaments (flowers ...
In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, specifically, a glyph 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 ...
Webdings is a TrueType dingbat typeface developed in 1997. It was initially distributed with Internet Explorer 4.0, then as part of Core fonts for the Web, and is included in all versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 98. All of the pictographic Webding glyphs that were not unifiable with existing Unicode characters were added to the ...
Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of the intended characters. Transport and Map Symbols is a Unicode block containing transportation and map icons, largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers ' emoji implementations of Shift JIS, and to encode characters in the Wingdings ...
Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600–U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories: astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trigrams, warning signs, and weather, among others.
Miscellaneous Technical is a Unicode block ranging from U+2300 to U+23FF, which contains various common symbols which are related to and used in the various technical, programming language, and academic professions. For example: Symbol ⌂ (HTML hexadecimal code is ⌂) represents a house or a home. Symbol ⌘ (⌘) is a "place of interest" sign.
Dingbats is a Unicode block containing dingbats (or typographical ornaments, like the FLORAL HEART character). Most of its characters were taken from Zapf Dingbats; it was the Unicode block to have imported characters from a specific typeface; Unicode later adopted a policy that excluded symbols with "no demonstrated need or strong desire to exchange in plain text", and thus no further dingbat ...