Wingdings

Wingdings 2
Category	Dingbat
Designer(s)	Charles Bigelow; Kris Holmes
Foundry	Type Solutions
	Sample

Wingdings
Category	Symbol
Designer(s)	Charles Bigelow; Kris Holmes
Foundry	Bigelow and Holmes, Microsoft Corp.
Date released	1990
	Sample

Wingdings series
Language(s)	Dingbat ornaments
Definitions	UTC L2/12-368
Classification	Pi fonts
Other related encoding(s)	Webdings, Zapf Dingbats, Bookshelf Symbol 7
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Wingdings are a series of dingbat fonts which 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.

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[edit]

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[edit]

Letter Number Punctuation Symbol Other undefined

Wingdings
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
0_	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
1_	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
2_	SP 0020 32	🖉 1F589 33	✂ 2702 34	✁ 2701 35	👓 1F453 36	🕭 1F56D 37	🕮 1F56E 38	🕯 1F56F 39	🕿 1F57F 40	✆ 2706 41	🖂 1F582 42	🖃 1F583 43	📪 1F4EA 44	📫 1F4EB 45	📬 1F4EC 46	📭 1F4ED 47
3_	🗀 1F5C0 48	🗁 1F5C1 49	🗎 1F5CE 50	🗏 1F5CF 51	🗐 1F5D0 52	🗄 1F5C4 53	⌛ 23F3 54	🖮 1F5AE 55	🖰 1F5B0 56	🖲 1F5B2 57	🖳 1F5B3 58	🖴 1F5B4 59	🖪 1F5AB 60	🖫 1F5AC 61	✇ 2707 62	✍ 270D 63
4_	🖎 1F58E 64	✌ 270C 65	🖏 1F58F 66	👍 1F44D 67	👎 1F44E 68	☜ 261C 69	☞ 261E 70	☝ 261C 71	🖗 1F597 72	🖐 1F590 73	☺ 263A 74	😐 1F610 75	☹ 2639 76	💣 1F4A3 77	🕱 1F571 78	🏳 1F3F3 79
5_	🏱 1F3F1 80	✈ 2708 81	☼ 263C 82	🌢 1F322 83	❄ 2744 84	🕆 1F546 85	✞ 271E 86	🕈 1F548 87	✠ 2720 88	✡ 2721 89	☪ 262A 90	☯ 262F 91	🕉 1F549 92	☸ 2638 93	♈ 2648 94	♉ 2649 95
6_	♊ 264A 96	♋ 264B 97	♌ 264C 98	♍ 264D 99	♎ 264E 100	♏ 264F 101	♐ 2650 102	♑ 2651 103	♒ 2652 104	♓ 2653 105	🙰 1F670 106	🙵 1F675 107	⚫ 26AB 108	🔾 1F53E 109	◾ 25FC 110	🞏 1F78F 111
7_	🞐 1F790 112	❑ 2751 113	❒ 2752 114	🞟 1F79F 115	⧫ 29EB 116	◆ 25C6 117	❖ 2756 118	🞙 1F799 119	⌧ 2327 120	⮹ 2BB9 121	⌘ 2318 122	🏵 1F3F5 123	🏶 1F3F6 124	🙶 1F676 125	🙷 1F677 126	127
8_	🄋 1F10B 128	➀ 2780 129	➁ 2781 130	➂ 2782 131	➃ 2783 132	➄ 2784 133	➅ 2785 134	➆ 2786 135	➇ 2787 136	➈ 2788 137	➉ 2789 138	🄌 1F10C 139	➊ 278A 140	➋ 278B 141	➌ 278C 142	➍ 278D 143
9_	➎ 278E 144	➏ 278F 145	➐ 2790 146	➑ 2791 147	➒ 2792 148	➓ 2793 149	🙢 1F662 150	🙠 1F660 151	🙡 1F661 152	🙣 1F663 153	🙦 1F666 154	🙤 1F664 155	🙥 1F665 156	🙧 1F667 157	∙ 2219 158	• 2022 159
A_	⬝ 2B1D 160	⭘ 2B58 161	🞆 1F786 162	🞈 1F788 163	🞊 1F78A 164	🞋 1F78B 165	🔿 1F53F 166	▪ 25AA 167	🞎 1F78E 168	🟁 1F7C0 169	🟅 1F7C1 170	★ 2605 171	🟋 1F7CB 172	🟏 1F7CF 173	🟓 1F7D3 174	🟑 1F7D1 175
B_	⯐ 2BD0 176	⌖ 2316 177	⯎ 2BCE 178	⯏ 2BCF 179	⯑ 2BD1 180	✪ 272A 181	✰ 2730 182	🕐 1F550 183	🕑 1F551 184	🕒 1F552 185	🕓 1F553 186	🕔 1F554 187	🕕 1F555 188	🕖 1F556 189	🕗 1F557 190	🕘 1F558 191
C_	🕙 1F559 192	🕚 1F55A 193	🕛 1F55B 194	⮰ 2BB0 195	⮱ 2BB1 196	⮲ 2BB2 197	⮳ 2BB3 198	⮴ 2BB4 199	⮵ 2BB5 200	⮶ 2BB6 201	⮷ 2BB7 202	🙪 1F66A 203	🙫 1F66B 204	🙕 1F655 205	🙔 1F654 206	🙗 1F657 207
D_	🙖 1F656 208	🙐 1F650 209	🙑 1F651 210	🙒 1F652 211	🙓 1F653 212	⌫ 232B 213	⌦ 2326 214	⮘ 2B98 215	⮚ 2B9A 216	⮙ 2B99 217	⮛ 2B9B 218	⮈ 2B88 219	⮊ 2B8A 220	⮉ 2B89 221	⮋ 2B8B 222	🡨 1F868 223
E_	🡪 1F86A 224	🡩 1F869 225	🡫 1F86B 226	🡬 1F86C 227	🡭 1F86D 228	🡯 1F86F 229	🡮 1F86E 230	🡸 1F878 231	🡺 1F87A 232	🡹 1F879 233	🡻 1F87B 234	🡼 1F87C 235	🡽 1F87D 236	🡿 1F87F 237	🡾 1F87E 238	⇦ 21E6 239
F_	⇨ 21E8 240	⇧ 21E7 241	⇩ 21E9 242	⬄ 2B04 243	⇳ 21F3 244	⬁ 2B01 245	⬀ 2B00 246	⬃ 2B03 247	⬂ 2B02 248	🢬 1F8AC 249	🢭 1F8AD 250	🗶 1F5F6 251	✓ 2713 252	🗷 1F5F7 253	🗹 1F5F9 254	—^[a] 255
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F

^ The character 255 (FF) represents the Windows icon, which as a corporate logo has no Unicode point.

Wingdings 2[edit]

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[edit]

Wingdings 2
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
0_	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
1_	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
2_	SP 0020 32	🖊 1F58A 33	🖋 1F58B 34	🖌 1F58C 35	🖍 1F58D 36	✄ 2704 37	✀ 2700 38	🕾 1F57E 39	🕽 1F57D 40	🗅 1F5C5 41	🗆 1F5C6 42	🗇 1F5C7 43	🗈 1F5C8 44	🗉 1F5C9 45	🗊 1F5CA 46	🗋 1F5CB 47
3_	🗌 1F5CC 48	🗍 1F5CD 49	📋 1F4CB 50	🗑 1F5D1 51	🖵 1F5D4 52	🗔 1F5B5 53	🖶 1F5B6 54	🖷 1F5B7 55	🖸 1F5B8 56	🖭 1F5AD 57	🖯 1F5AF 58	🖱 1F5B1 59	🖒 1F592 60	🖓 1F593 61	🖘 1F598 62	🖙 1F599 63
4_	🖚 1F59A 64	🖛 1F59B 65	👈 1F448 66	👉 1F449 67	🖜 1F59C 68	🖝 1F59D 69	🖞 1F59E 70	🖟 1F59F 71	🖠 1F5A0 72	🖡 1F5A1 73	👆 1F446 74	👇 1F447 75	🖢 1F5A2 76	🖣 1F5A3 77	🖑 1F591 78	🗴 1F5F4 79
5_	🗸 1F5F8 80	🗵 1F5F5 81	☑ 2611 82	⮽ 2BBD 83	☒ 2612 84	⮾ 2BBE 85	⮿ 2BBF 86	🛇 1F6C7 87	⦸ 29B8 88	🙱 1F671 89	🙴 1F674 90	🙲 1F672 91	🙳 1F673 92	‽ 203D 93	🙹 1F679 94	🙺 1F67A 95
6_	🙻 1F67B 96	🙦 1F666 97	🙤 1F664 98	🙥 1F665 99	🙧 1F667 100	🙚 1F65A 101	🙘 1F658 102	🙙 1F659 103	🙛 1F65B 104	⓪ 24EA 105	① 2460 106	② 2461 107	③ 2462 108	④ 2463 109	⑤ 2464 110	⑥ 2465 111
7_	⑦ 2466 112	⑧ 2467 113	⑨ 2468 114	⑩ 2469 115	⓿ 24FF 116	❶ 2776 117	❷ 2777 118	❸ 2778 119	❹ 2779 120	❺ 277A 121	❻ 277B 122	❼ 277C 123	❽ 277D 124	❾ 277E 125	❿ 277F 126	127
8_	☉ 2609 128	🌕 1F315 129	☽ 263D 130	☾ 263E 131	⸿ 2E3F 132	✝ 271D 133	🕇 1F547 134	🕜 1F55C 135	🕝 1F55D 136	🕞 1F55E 137	🕟 1F55F 138	🕠 1F560 139	🕡 1F561 140	🕢 1F562 141	🕣 1F563 142	🕤 1F564 143
9_	🕥 1F565 144	🕦 1F566 145	🕧 1F567 146	🙨 1F668 147	🙩 1F669 148	⋅ 22C5 149	🞄 1F784 150	⦁ 2981 151	● 25CF 152	○ 25CF 153	🞅 1F785 154	🞇 1F787 155	🞉 1F789 156	⊙ 2299 157	⦿ 29BF 158	🞌 1F78C 159
A_	🞍 1F78D 160	◾ 25FE 161	■ 25A0 162	□ 25A1 163	🞑 1F791 164	🞒 1F792 165	🞓 1F793 166	🞔 1F794 167	▣ 25A3 168	🞕 1F795 169	🞖 1F796 170	🞗 1F797 171	🞘 1F798 172	⬩ 2B29 173	⬥ 2B25 174	◇ 25C7 175
B_	🞚 1F79A 176	◈ 25C8 177	🞛 1F79B 178	🞜 1F79C 179	🞝 1F79D 180	🞞 1F79E 181	⬪ 2B2A 182	⬧ 2B27 183	◊ 25CA 184	🞠 1F7A0 185	◖ 25D6 186	◗ 25D7 187	⯊ 2BCA 188	⯋ 2BCB 189	⯀ 2BC0 190	⯁ 2BC1 191
C_	⬟ 2B1F 192	⯂ 2BC2 193	⬣ 2B23 194	⬢ 2B22 195	⯃ 2BC3 196	⯄ 2BC4 197	🞡 1F7A1 198	🞢 1F7A2 199	🞣 1F7A3 200	🞤 1F7A4 201	🞥 1F7A5 202	🞦 1F7A6 203	🞧 1F7A7 204	🞨 1F7A8 205	🞩 1F7A9 206	🞪 1F7AA 207
D_	🞫 1F7AB 208	🞬 1F7AC 209	🞭 1F7AD 210	🞮 1F7AE 211	🞯 1F7AF 212	🞰 1F7B0 213	🞱 1F7B1 214	🞲 1F7B2 215	🞳 1F7B3 216	🞴 1F7B4 217	🞵 1F7B5 218	🞶 1F7B6 219	🞷 1F7B7 220	🞸 1F7B8 221	🞹 1F7B9 222	🞺 1F7BA 223
E_	🞻 1F7BB 224	🞼 1F7BC 225	🞽 1F7BD 226	🞾 1F7BE 227	🞿 1F7BF 228	🟀 1F7C0 229	🟂 1F7C2 230	🟄 1F7C4 231	🟆 1F7C6 232	🟉 1F7C9 233	🟊 1F7CA 234	✶ 2736 235	🟌 1F7CC 236	🟎 1F7CE 237	🟐 1F7D0 238	🟒 1F7D2 239
F_	✹ 2739 240	🟃 1F7C3 241	🟇 1F7C7 242	✯ 272F 243	🟍 1F7CD 244	🟔 1F7D4 245	⯌ 2BCC 246	⯍ 2BCD 247	※ 203B 248	⁂ 2042 249	250	251	252	253	254	255
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F

Wingdings 3[edit]

Wingdings 3

Category	Symbol
Designer(s)	Charles Bigelow Kris Holmes
Foundry	Type 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,^[when?] 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[edit]

Wingdings 3
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
0_	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
1_	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
2_	SP 0020 32	⭠ 2B60 33	⭢ 2B62 34	⭡ 2B61 35	⭣ 2B63 36	⭦ 2B64 37	⭧ 2B65 38	⭩ 2B67 39	⭨ 2B66 40	⭰ 2B70 41	⭲ 2B72 42	⭱ 2B71 43	⭳ 2B73 44	⭶ 2B76 45	⭸ 2B78 46	⭻ 2B7B 47
3_	⭽ 2B7D 48	⭤ 2B64 49	⭥ 2B65 50	⭪ 2B6A 51	⭬ 2B6C 52	⭫ 2B6B 53	⭭ 2B6D 54	⭍ 2B4D 55	⮠ 2BA0 56	⮡ 2BA1 57	⮢ 2BA2 58	⮣ 2BA3 59	⮤ 2BA4 60	⮥ 2BA5 61	⮦ 2BA6 62	⮧ 2BA7 63
4_	⮐ 2B90 64	⮑ 2B91 65	⮒ 2B92 66	⮓ 2B93 67	⮀ 2B80 68	⮃ 2B83 69	⭾ 2B7E 70	⭿ 2B7F 71	⮄ 2B84 72	⮆ 2B86 73	⮅ 2B85 74	⮇ 2B87 75	⮏ 2B8F 76	⮍ 2B8D 77	⮎ 2B8E 78	⮌ 2B8C 79
5_	⭮ 2B6E 80	⭯ 2B6F 81	⎋ 238B 82	⌤ 2324 83	⌃ 2303 84	⌥ 2325 85	␣ 2423 86	⍽ 237D 87	⇪ 21EA 88	⮸ 2BB8 89	🢠 1F8A0 90	🢡 1F8A1 91	🢢 1F8A2 92	🢣 1F8A3 93	🢤 1F8A4 94	🢥 1F8A5 95
6_	🢦 1F8A6 96	🢧 1F8A7 97	🢨 1F8A8 98	🢩 1F8A9 99	🢪 1F8AA 100	🢫 1F8AB 101	🡐 1F850 102	🡒 1F852 103	🡑 1F851 104	🡓 1F853 105	🡔 1F854 106	🡕 1F855 107	🡗 1F857 108	🡖 1F856 109	🡘 1F858 110	🡙 1F859 111
7_	▲ 25B2 112	▼ 25BC 113	△ 25B3 114	▽ 25BD 115	◀ 25C0 116	▶ 25B6 117	◁ 25C1 118	▷ 25B7 119	◣ 25E3 120	◢ 25E2 121	◤ 25E4 122	◥ 25E5 123	🞀 1F780 124	🞂 1F782 125	🞁 1F781 126	127
8_	🞃 1F783 128	⯅ 2BC5 129	⯆ 2BC6 130	⯇ 2BC7 131	⯈ 2BC8 132	⮜ 2B9C 133	⮞ 2B9E 134	⮝ 2B9D 135	⮟ 2B9F 136	🠐 1F810 137	🠒 1F812 138	🠑 1F811 139	🠓 1F813 140	🠔 1F814 141	🠖 1F816 142	🠕 1F815 143
9_	🠗 1F817 144	🠘 1F818 145	🠚 1F81A 146	🠙 1F819 147	🠛 1F81B 148	🠜 1F81C 149	🠞 1F81E 150	🠝 1F81D 151	🠟 1F81F 152	🠀 1F800 153	🠂 1F802 154	🠁 1F801 155	🠃 1F803 156	🠄 1F804 157	🠆 1F806 158	🠅 1F805 159
A_	🠇 1F807 160	🠈 1F808 161	🠊 1F80A 162	🠉 1F809 163	🠋 1F80B 164	🠠 1F820 165	🠢 1F822 166	🠤 1F824 167	🠦 1F826 168	🠨 1F828 169	🠪 1F82A 170	🠬 1F82C 171	🢜 1F89C 172	🢝 1F89D 173	🢞 1F89E 174	🢟 1F89F 175
B_	🠮 1F82E 176	🠰 1F830 177	🠲 1F832 178	🠴 1F834 179	🠶 1F836 180	🠸 1F838 181	🠺 1F83A 182	🠹 1F839 183	🠻 1F83B 184	🢘 1F898 185	🢚 1F89A 186	🢙 1F899 187	🢛 1F89B 188	🠼 1F83C 189	🠾 1F83E 190	🠽 1F83D 191
C_	🠿 1F83F 192	🡀 1F840 193	🡂 1F842 194	🡁 1F841 195	🡃 1F843 196	🡄 1F844 197	🡆 1F846 198	🡅 1F845 199	🡇 1F847 200	⮨ 2BA8 201	⮩ 2BA9 202	⮪ 2BAA 203	⮫ 2BAB 204	⮬ 2BAC 205	⮭ 2BAD 206	⮮ 2BAE 207
D_	⮯ 2BAF 208	🡠 1F860 209	🡢 1F862 210	🡡 1F861 211	🡣 1F863 212	🡤 1F864 213	🡥 1F865 214	🡧 1F867 215	🡦 1F866 216	🡰 1F870 217	🡲 1F872 218	🡱 1F871 219	🡳 1F873 220	🡴 1F874 221	🡵 1F875 222	🡷 1F877 223
E_	🡶 1F876 224	🢀 1F880 225	🢂 1F882 226	🢁 1F881 227	🢃 1F883 228	🢄 1F884 229	🢅 1F885 230	🢇 1F887 231	🢆 1F886 232	🢐 1F890 233	🢒 1F892 234	🢑 1F891 235	🢓 1F893 236	🢔 1F894 237	🢖 1F895 238	🢕 1F897 239
F_	🢗 1F896 240	241	242	243	244	245	246	247	248	249	250	251	252	253	254	255
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F

Controversy[edit]

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[edit]

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 abstract symbols which may be interpreted as skyscrapers, followed by the skull and crossbones symbol and the Star of David (✈︎🗏︎🗏︎ ☠︎✡︎).^[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]