Wingdings

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 an attribution to Type Solutions, Inc., the maker of a tool used to hint the font.

Not to be confused with Webdings.
Wingdings series
Language(s)Dingbat ornaments
DefinitionsUTC L2/12-368
ClassificationPi fonts
Other related encoding(s)Webdings, Zapf Dingbats, Bookshelf Symbol 7

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]

Wingdings
Wingdings
CategorySymbol
Designer(s)Charles Bigelow
Kris Holmes
FoundryBigelow and Holmes, Microsoft Corp.
Date released1990
Sample

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][7] The patent expired in 2005. In many other countries, a Design Patent would be called a registered design. It is registration of a design to deter imitation, rather than a claim of a novel invention.

This font contains many largely recognized shapes and gestures as well as some recognized world symbols, such as the Star of David, the symbols of the zodiac, index or manicule signs, hand gestures, and obscure ampersands.

Mosaic of Wingdings characters

Character set
Wingdings
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
0x
1x
2x title="32 U+0020: SPACE" style="font-size:75%;padding:0px;"| SP  ๐Ÿ–‰ โœ‚ โœ ๐Ÿ‘“๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•ญ ๐Ÿ•ฎ ๐Ÿ•ฏ ๐Ÿ•ฟ โœ† ๐Ÿ–‚ ๐Ÿ–ƒ ๐Ÿ“ช๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ“ซ๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ“ฌ๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ“ญ๏ธŽ
3x ๐Ÿ—€ ๐Ÿ— ๐Ÿ—Ž ๐Ÿ— ๐Ÿ— ๐Ÿ—„ โŒ›๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ–ฎ ๐Ÿ–ฐ ๐Ÿ–ฒ ๐Ÿ–ณ ๐Ÿ–ด ๐Ÿ–ซ ๐Ÿ–ฌ โœ‡ โœ
4x ๐Ÿ–Ž โœŒ ๐Ÿ– ๐Ÿ‘๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ‘Ž๏ธŽ โ˜œ โ˜ž โ˜ โ˜Ÿ ๐Ÿ– โ˜บ ๐Ÿ˜๏ธŽ โ˜น ๐Ÿ’ฃ๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•ฑ ๐Ÿณ
5x ๐Ÿฑ โœˆ โ˜ผ ๐ŸŒข โ„ ๐Ÿ•† โœž ๐Ÿ•ˆ โœ  โœก โ˜ช โ˜ฏ ๐Ÿ•‰ โ˜ธ โ™ˆ๏ธŽ โ™‰๏ธŽ
6x โ™Š๏ธŽ โ™‹๏ธŽ โ™Œ๏ธŽ โ™๏ธŽ โ™Ž๏ธŽ โ™๏ธŽ โ™๏ธŽ โ™‘๏ธŽ โ™’๏ธŽ โ™“๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ™ฐ ๐Ÿ™ต โšซ๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ”พ โ—ผ ๐Ÿž
7x ๐Ÿž โ‘ โ’ ๐ŸžŸ โงซ โ—† โ– โฌฉ โŒง โฎน โŒ˜ ๐Ÿต ๐Ÿถ ๐Ÿ™ถ ๐Ÿ™ท โ–ฏ
8x ๐Ÿ„‹ โž€ โž โž‚ โžƒ โž„ โž… โž† โž‡ โžˆ โž‰ ๐Ÿ„Œ โžŠ โž‹ โžŒ โž
9x โžŽ โž โž โž‘ โž’ โž“ ๐Ÿ™ข ๐Ÿ™  ๐Ÿ™ก ๐Ÿ™ฃ ๐Ÿ™ž ๐Ÿ™œ ๐Ÿ™ ๐Ÿ™Ÿ โˆ™ โ€ข
Ax โฌ โญ˜ ๐Ÿž† ๐Ÿžˆ ๐ŸžŠ ๐Ÿž‹ ๐Ÿ”ฟ โ–ช ๐ŸžŽ ๐ŸŸ ๐ŸŸ… โ˜… ๐ŸŸ‹ ๐ŸŸ ๐ŸŸ“ ๐ŸŸ‘
Bx โฏ โŒ– โฏŽ โฏ โฏ‘ โœช โœฐ ๐Ÿ•๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•‘๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•’๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•“๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•”๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ••๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•–๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•—๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•˜๏ธŽ
Cx ๐Ÿ•™๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•š๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•›๏ธŽ โฎฐ โฎฑ โฎฒ โฎณ โฎด โฎต โฎถ โฎท ๐Ÿ™ช ๐Ÿ™ซ ๐Ÿ™• ๐Ÿ™” ๐Ÿ™—
Dx ๐Ÿ™– ๐Ÿ™ ๐Ÿ™‘ ๐Ÿ™’ ๐Ÿ™“ โŒซ โŒฆ โฎ˜ โฎš โฎ™ โฎ› โฎˆ โฎŠ โฎ‰ โฎ‹ ๐Ÿกจ
Ex ๐Ÿกช ๐Ÿกฉ ๐Ÿกซ ๐Ÿกฌ ๐Ÿกญ ๐Ÿกฏ ๐Ÿกฎ ๐Ÿกธ ๐Ÿกบ ๐Ÿกน ๐Ÿกป ๐Ÿกผ ๐Ÿกฝ ๐Ÿกฟ ๐Ÿกพ โ‡ฆ
Fx โ‡จ โ‡ง โ‡ฉ โฌ„ โ‡ณ โฌ โฌ€ โฌƒ โฌ‚ ๐Ÿขฌ ๐Ÿขญ ๐Ÿ—ถ โœ“ ๐Ÿ—ท ๐Ÿ—น [lower-alpha 1]
  1. The character 255 (FF) represents the Windows icon, which as a corporate logo has no Unicode point. Similar Unicode characters include U+1FA9F ๐ŸชŸ๏ธŽ WINDOW. Compare the status of the Apple logo in Mac OS Roman and Mac OS Symbol.

Wingdings 2
Wingdings
CategoryDingbat
Designer(s)Charles Bigelow
Kris Holmes
FoundryType Solutions
Sample

Wingdings 2 is a TrueType font distributed with a variety of Microsoft applications, including Microsoft Office up to version 2010.[5] The font was developed in 1990 by Type Solutions, Inc. The current copyright holder is Microsoft Corporation. Among the features of Wingdings 2 are 16 forms of the index, Enclosed Alphanumerics from 0 to 10, multiple forms of ampersand and interrobang, several geometric shapes and an asterism.

Mosaic of Wingdings 2 characters

Character set
Wingdings 2
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
0x
1x
2x title="32 U+0020: SPACE" style="font-size:75%;padding:0px;"| SP  ๐Ÿ–Š ๐Ÿ–‹ ๐Ÿ–Œ ๐Ÿ– โœ„ โœ€ ๐Ÿ•พ ๐Ÿ•ฝ ๐Ÿ—… ๐Ÿ—† ๐Ÿ—‡ ๐Ÿ—ˆ ๐Ÿ—‰ ๐Ÿ—Š ๐Ÿ—‹
3x ๐Ÿ—Œ ๐Ÿ— ๐Ÿ“‹๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ—‘ ๐Ÿ—” ๐Ÿ–ต ๐Ÿ–ถ ๐Ÿ–ท ๐Ÿ–ธ ๐Ÿ–ญ ๐Ÿ–ฏ ๐Ÿ–ฑ ๐Ÿ–’ ๐Ÿ–“ ๐Ÿ–˜ ๐Ÿ–™
4x ๐Ÿ–š ๐Ÿ–› ๐Ÿ‘ˆ๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ‘‰๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ–œ ๐Ÿ– ๐Ÿ–ž ๐Ÿ–Ÿ ๐Ÿ–  ๐Ÿ–ก ๐Ÿ‘†๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ‘‡๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ–ข ๐Ÿ–ฃ ๐Ÿ–‘ ๐Ÿ—ด
5x ๐Ÿ—ธ ๐Ÿ—ต โ˜‘ โฎฝ โ˜’ โฎพ โฎฟ ๐Ÿ›‡ โฆธ ๐Ÿ™ฑ ๐Ÿ™ด ๐Ÿ™ฒ ๐Ÿ™ณ โ€ฝ ๐Ÿ™น ๐Ÿ™บ
6x ๐Ÿ™ป ๐Ÿ™ฆ ๐Ÿ™ค ๐Ÿ™ฅ ๐Ÿ™ง ๐Ÿ™š ๐Ÿ™˜ ๐Ÿ™™ ๐Ÿ™› โ“ช โ‘  โ‘ก โ‘ข โ‘ฃ โ‘ค โ‘ฅ
7x โ‘ฆ โ‘ง โ‘จ โ‘ฉ โ“ฟ โถ โท โธ โน โบ โป โผ โฝ โพ โฟ
8x โ˜‰ ๐ŸŒ•๏ธŽ โ˜ฝ โ˜พ โธฟ โœ ๐Ÿ•‡ ๐Ÿ•œ๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•ž๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•Ÿ๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ• ๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•ก๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•ข๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•ฃ๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•ค๏ธŽ
9x ๐Ÿ•ฅ๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•ฆ๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ•ง๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ™จ ๐Ÿ™ฉ โ‹… ๐Ÿž„ โฆ โ— โ—‹ ๐Ÿž… ๐Ÿž‡ ๐Ÿž‰ โŠ™ โฆฟ ๐ŸžŒ
Ax ๐Ÿž โ—พ๏ธŽ โ–  โ–ก ๐Ÿž‘ ๐Ÿž’ ๐Ÿž“ ๐Ÿž” โ–ฃ ๐Ÿž• ๐Ÿž– ๐Ÿž— ๐Ÿž˜ โฌฉ โฌฅ โ—‡
Bx ๐Ÿžš โ—ˆ ๐Ÿž› ๐Ÿžœ ๐Ÿž ๐Ÿžž โฌช โฌง โ—Š ๐Ÿž  โ—– โ—— โฏŠ โฏ‹ โฏ€ โฏ
Cx โฌŸ โฏ‚ โฌฃ โฌข โฏƒ โฏ„ ๐Ÿžก ๐Ÿžข ๐Ÿžฃ ๐Ÿžค ๐Ÿžฅ ๐Ÿžฆ ๐Ÿžง ๐Ÿžจ ๐Ÿžฉ ๐Ÿžช
Dx ๐Ÿžซ ๐Ÿžฌ ๐Ÿžญ ๐Ÿžฎ ๐Ÿžฏ ๐Ÿžฐ ๐Ÿžฑ ๐Ÿžฒ ๐Ÿžณ ๐Ÿžด ๐Ÿžต ๐Ÿžถ ๐Ÿžท ๐Ÿžธ ๐Ÿžน ๐Ÿžบ
Ex ๐Ÿžป ๐Ÿžผ ๐Ÿžฝ ๐Ÿžพ ๐Ÿžฟ ๐ŸŸ€ ๐ŸŸ‚ ๐ŸŸ„ ๐ŸŸ† ๐ŸŸ‰ ๐ŸŸŠ โœถ ๐ŸŸŒ ๐ŸŸŽ ๐ŸŸ ๐ŸŸ’
Fx โœน ๐ŸŸƒ ๐ŸŸ‡ โœฏ ๐ŸŸ ๐ŸŸ” โฏŒ โฏ โ€ป โ‚

Wingdings 3
Wingdings 3
CategorySymbol
Designer(s)Charles Bigelow
Kris Holmes
FoundryType Solutions
Sample

Wingdings 3 is a TrueType dingbat font distributed with Microsoft Office (up to version 2010) and some other Microsoft products.[5]

The font was originally developed in 1990 by Type Solutions, Inc. Currently, the copyright holder is Microsoft Corporation. Wingdings 3 consists almost entirely of arrow variations and includes many symbols for key tops as defined in ISO/IEC 9995-7.

Mosaic of Wingdings 3 characters

Character set
Wingdings 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
0x
1x
2x title="32 U+0020: SPACE" style="font-size:75%;padding:0px;"| SP  โญ  โญข] โญก โญฃ โญฆ โญง โญฉ โญจ โญฐ โญฒ โญฑ โญณ] โญถ โญธ โญป]
3x โญฝ โญค โญฅ โญช โญฌ โญซ โญญ โญ โฎ  โฎก โฎข โฎฃ โฎค โฎฅ โฎฆ โฎง
4x โฎ โฎ‘ โฎ’ โฎ“ โฎ€ โฎƒ โญพ โญฟ โฎ„ โฎ† โฎ… โฎ‡ โฎ โฎ โฎŽ โฎŒ
5x โญฎ โญฏ โŽ‹ โŒค โŒƒ โŒฅ โฃ โฝ โ‡ช โฎธ ๐Ÿข  ๐Ÿขก ๐Ÿขข ๐Ÿขฃ ๐Ÿขค ๐Ÿขฅ
6x ๐Ÿขฆ ๐Ÿขง ๐Ÿขจ ๐Ÿขฉ ๐Ÿขช ๐Ÿขซ ๐Ÿก ๐Ÿก’ ๐Ÿก‘ ๐Ÿก“ ๐Ÿก” ๐Ÿก• ๐Ÿก— ๐Ÿก– ๐Ÿก˜ ๐Ÿก™
7x โ–ฒ โ–ผ โ–ณ โ–ฝ โ—€ โ–ถ โ— โ–ท โ—ฃ โ—ข โ—ค โ—ฅ ๐Ÿž€ ๐Ÿž‚ ๐Ÿž
8x ๐Ÿžƒ โฏ… โฏ† โฏ‡ โฏˆ โฎœ โฎž โฎ โฎŸ ๐Ÿ  ๐Ÿ ’ ๐Ÿ ‘ ๐Ÿ “ ๐Ÿ ” ๐Ÿ – ๐Ÿ •
9x ๐Ÿ — ๐Ÿ ˜ ๐Ÿ š ๐Ÿ ™ ๐Ÿ › ๐Ÿ œ ๐Ÿ ž ๐Ÿ  ๐Ÿ Ÿ ๐Ÿ € ๐Ÿ ‚ ๐Ÿ  ๐Ÿ ƒ ๐Ÿ „ ๐Ÿ † ๐Ÿ …
Ax ๐Ÿ ‡ ๐Ÿ ˆ ๐Ÿ Š ๐Ÿ ‰ ๐Ÿ ‹ ๐Ÿ   ๐Ÿ ข ๐Ÿ ค ๐Ÿ ฆ ๐Ÿ จ ๐Ÿ ช ๐Ÿ ฌ ๐Ÿขœ ๐Ÿข ๐Ÿขž ๐ŸขŸ
Bx ๐Ÿ ฎ ๐Ÿ ฐ ๐Ÿ ฒ ๐Ÿ ด ๐Ÿ ถ ๐Ÿ ธ ๐Ÿ บ ๐Ÿ น ๐Ÿ ป ๐Ÿข˜ ๐Ÿขš ๐Ÿข™ ๐Ÿข› ๐Ÿ ผ ๐Ÿ พ ๐Ÿ ฝ
Cx ๐Ÿ ฟ ๐Ÿก€ ๐Ÿก‚ ๐Ÿก ๐Ÿกƒ ๐Ÿก„ ๐Ÿก† ๐Ÿก… ๐Ÿก‡ โฎจ โฎฉ โฎช โฎซ โฎฌ โฎญ โฎฎ
Dx โฎฏ ๐Ÿก  ๐Ÿกข ๐Ÿกก ๐Ÿกฃ ๐Ÿกค ๐Ÿกฅ ๐Ÿกง ๐Ÿกฆ ๐Ÿกฐ ๐Ÿกฒ ๐Ÿกฑ ๐Ÿกณ ๐Ÿกด ๐Ÿกต ๐Ÿกท
Ex ๐Ÿกถ ๐Ÿข€ ๐Ÿข‚ ๐Ÿข ๐Ÿขƒ ๐Ÿข„ ๐Ÿข… ๐Ÿข‡ ๐Ÿข† ๐Ÿข ๐Ÿข’ ๐Ÿข‘ ๐Ÿข“ ๐Ÿข” ๐Ÿข– ๐Ÿข•
Fx ๐Ÿข—

Controversy
See also: Bookshelf Symbol 7
The "NYC" symbols typed out in Wingdings

In 1992, only days after the release of Windows 3.1, it was discovered that the character sequence "NYC" (a frequently used abbreviation for New York City) in Wingdings was rendered as a skull and crossbones symbol, Star of David, and thumbs up gesture. This was often claimed to be an antisemitic message referencing New York's large Jewish community.[8] Microsoft strongly denied this was intentional, and insisted that the final arrangement of the glyphs in the font was largely random. (The character sequence "NYC" in the later-released Webdings font, in turn, was intentionally rendered as eye, heart, and city skyline, referring to the I Love New York logo.[9])

9/11 attacks
The "Q33 NY" symbols typed out in Wingdings

After September 11, 2001, an email was circulated claiming that entering "Q33 NY", which it claims is the flight number of the first plane to hit the Twin Towers, in Wingdings would bring up a character sequence of a plane flying into two rectangular paper sheet icons which may be interpreted as skyscrapers, followed by the skull and crossbones symbol and the Star of David (โœˆ๏ธŽ๐Ÿ—๏ธŽ๐Ÿ—๏ธŽ โ˜ ๏ธŽโœก๏ธŽ).[8] This is a hoax; the flight numbers of the two airplanes that hit the towers were American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175; the tail numbers were N334AA and N612UA.[10]

See also

References
  1. Notes on Lucida designs(by Charles Bigelow, November 2005)
  2. Unicode 7.0.0 Pictographic symbols (including many emoji), geometric symbols, arrows, and ornaments originating from the Wingdings and Webdings sets
  3. Wingdings and Webdings Symbols (Unicode document 11-052) by Michel Suignard, 2011-02-15, study of the repertoire and possibilities of unification
  4. Fonts supplied with Windows 3.1.
  5. Wingdings font family
  6. Typeface - Google Patent Search
  7. United States Patent: D341848
  8. "Does Microsoft's Wingdings font includes hidden anti-Semitic and 9/11-referential messages?". snopes.com. 11 December 2005. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  9. MS Denies Wingding Thing, Again|Wired Magazine
  10. Christensen, Brett M. (9 February 2017). "Q33 NY Wingdings Hoax โ€“ Elevens and the Wrath of the Eagle". Hoax-Slayer. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
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