Webdings

Webdings
Category Symbol
Designer(s) Vincent Connare
Sue Lightfoot
Ian Patterson
Geraldine Wade
Foundry Microsoft
Sample

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 Webding glyphs that are not unifiable with existing Unicode characters were added to the Unicode Standard when version 7.0 was released in June 2014.[1]

Symbol Types

There are some "categories" of symbols in Webdings; groups of similar symbols. Symbol trends like this in the font include weather icons, land with different structures built on top, vehicles and ICT. Symbols which are the Webdings equivalent of characters not available on an English keyboard also exist in the font (for example, the dove and Earth symbols).

An unusual character in the font was the "man in business suit levitating," a humanized exclamation point. The inclusion of the character was a nod to the logo of 2 Tone Records.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Unicode 7.0.0". Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
  2. ↑ http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/emojis-rapid-evolution.html

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