Wingdings

Wingdings
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 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 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

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] 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.

Wingdings
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
0x
1x
2x	SP	🖉 1F589	✂ 2702	✁ 2701	👓︎ 1F453	🕭 1F56D	🕮 1F56E	🕯 1F56F	🕿 1F57F	✆ 2706	🖂 1F582	🖃 1F583	📪︎ 1F4EA	📫︎ 1F4EB	📬︎ 1F4EC	📭︎ 1F4ED
3x	🗀 1F5C0	🗁 1F5C1	🗎 1F5CE	🗏 1F5CF	🗐 1F5D0	🗄 1F5C4	⏳︎ 23F3	🖮 1F5AE	🖰 1F5B0	🖲 1F5B2	🖳 1F5B3	🖴 1F5B4	🖫 1F5AB	🖬 1F5AC	✇ 2707	✍︎ 270D
4x	🖎 1F58E	✌︎ 270C	🖏 1F58F	👍︎ 1F44D	👎︎ 1F44E	☜ 261C	☞ 261E	☝︎ 261D	🖗 1F597	🖐︎ 1F590	☺ 263A	😐︎ 1F610	☹ 2639	💣︎ 1F4A3	🕱 1F571	🏳 1F3F3
5x	🏱 1F3F1	✈ 2708	☼ 263C	🌢 1F322	❄ 2744	🕆 1F546	✞ 271E	🕈 1F548	✠ 2720	✡ 2721	☪ 262A	☯ 262F	🕉 1F549	☸ 2638	♈︎ 2648	♉︎ 2649
6x	♊︎ 264A	♋︎ 264B	♌︎ 264C	♍︎ 264D	♎︎ 264E	♏︎ 264F	♐︎ 2650	♑︎ 2651	♒︎ 2652	♓︎ 2653	🙰 1F670	🙵 1F675	⚫︎ 26AB	🔾 1F53E	◼ 25FC	🞏 1F78F
7x	🞐 1F790	❑ 2751	❒ 2752	🞟 1F79F	⧫ 29EB	◆ 25C6	❖ 2756	🞙 1F799	⌧ 2327	⮹ 2BB9	⌘ 2318	🏵 1F3F5	🏶 1F3F6	🙶 1F676	🙷 1F677
8x	🄋 1F10B	➀ 2780	➁ 2781	➂ 2782	➃ 2783	➄ 2784	➅ 2785	➆ 2786	➇ 2787	➈ 2788	➉ 2789	🄌 1F10C	➊ 278A	➋ 278B	➌ 278C	➍ 278D
9x	➎ 278E	➏ 278F	➐ 2790	➑ 2791	➒ 2792	➓ 2793	🙢 1F662	🙠 1F660	🙡 1F661	🙣 1F663	🙞 1F65E	🙜 1F65C	🙝 1F65D	🙟 1F65F	∙ 2219	• 2022
Ax	⬝ 2B1D	⭘ 2B58	🞆 1F786	🞈 1F788	🞊 1F78A	🞋 1F78B	🔿 1F53F	▪ 25AA	🞎 1F78E	🟁 1F7C1	🟅 1F7C5	★ 2605	🟋 1F7CB	🟏 1F7CF	🟓 1F7D3	🟑 1F7D1
Bx	⯐ 2BD0	⌖ 2316	⯎ 2BCE	⯏ 2BCF	⯑ 2BD1	✪ 272A	✰ 2730	🕐︎ 1F550	🕑︎ 1F551	🕒︎ 1F552	🕓︎ 1F553	🕔︎ 1F554	🕕︎ 1F555	🕖︎ 1F556	🕗︎ 1F557	🕘︎ 1F558
Cx	🕙︎ 1F559	🕚︎ 1F55A	🕛︎ 1F55B	⮰ 2BB0	⮱ 2BB1	⮲ 2BB2	⮳ 2BB3	⮴ 2BB4	⮵ 2BB5	⮶ 2BB6	⮷ 2BB7	🙪 1F66A	🙫 1F66B	🙕 1F655	🙔 1F654	🙗 1F657
Dx	🙖 1F656	🙐 1F650	🙑 1F651	🙒 1F652	🙓 1F653	⌫ 232B	⌦ 2326	⮘ 2B98	⮚ 2B9A	⮙ 2B99	⮛ 2B9B	⮈ 2B88	⮊ 2B8A	⮉ 2B89	⮋ 2B8B	🡨 1F868
Ex	🡪 1F86A	🡩 1F869	🡫 1F86B	🡬 1F86C	🡭 1F86D	🡯 1F86F	🡮 1F86E	🡸 1F878	🡺 1F87A	🡹 1F879	🡻 1F87B	🡼 1F87C	🡽 1F87D	🡿 1F87F	🡾 1F87E	⇦ 21E6
Fx	⇨ 21E8	⇧ 21E7	⇩ 21E9	⬄ 2B04	⇳ 21F3	⬁ 2B01	⬀ 2B00	⬃ 2B03	⬂ 2B02	🢬 1F8AC	🢭 1F8AD	🗶 1F5F6	✓ 2713	🗷 1F5F7	🗹 1F5F9	^[a]

^ The character 255 (FF) represents the Windows icon, which as a corporate logo has no Unicode point. Similar Unicode characters include U+1FA9F 🪟︎ WINDOW. Compare the status of the Apple logo in Mac OS Roman and Mac OS Symbol.

Wingdings 2

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.

Wingdings 2
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
0x
1x
2x	SP	🖊 1F58A	🖋 1F58B	🖌 1F58C	🖍 1F58D	✄ 2704	✀ 2700	🕾 1F57E	🕽 1F57D	🗅 1F5C5	🗆 1F5C6	🗇 1F5C7	🗈 1F5C8	🗉 1F5C9	🗊 1F5CA	🗋 1F5CB
3x	🗌 1F5CC	🗍 1F5CD	📋︎ 1F4CB	🗑 1F5D1	🗔 1F5D4	🖵 1F5B5	🖶 1F5B6	🖷 1F5B7	🖸 1F5B8	🖭 1F5AD	🖯 1F5AF	🖱 1F5B1	🖒 1F592	🖓 1F593	🖘 1F598	🖙 1F599
4x	🖚 1F59A	🖛 1F59B	👈︎ 1F448	👉︎ 1F449	🖜 1F59C	🖝 1F59D	🖞 1F59E	🖟 1F59F	🖠 1F5A0	🖡 1F5A1	👆︎ 1F446	👇︎ 1F447	🖢 1F5A2	🖣 1F5A3	🖑 1F591	🗴 1F5F4
5x	🗸 1F5F8	🗵 1F5F5	☑ 2611	⮽ 2BBD	☒ 2612	⮾ 2BBE	⮿ 2BBF	🛇 1F6C7	⦸ 29B8	🙱 1F671	🙴 1F674	🙲 1F672	🙳 1F673	‽ 203D	🙹 1F679	🙺 1F67A
6x	🙻 1F67B	🙦 1F666	🙤 1F664	🙥 1F665	🙧 1F667	🙚 1F65A	🙘 1F658	🙙 1F659	🙛 1F65B	⓪ 24EA	① 2460	② 2461	③ 2462	④ 2463	⑤ 2464	⑥ 2465
7x	⑦ 2466	⑧ 2467	⑨ 2468	⑩ 2469	⓿ 24FF	❶ 2776	❷ 2777	❸ 2778	❹ 2779	❺ 277A	❻ 277B	❼ 277C	❽ 277D	❾ 277E	❿ 277F
8x	☉ 2609	🌕︎ 1F315	☽ 263D	☾ 263E	⸿ 2E3F	✝ 271D	🕇 1F547	🕜︎ 1F55C	🕝︎ 1F55D	🕞︎ 1F55E	🕟︎ 1F55F	🕠︎ 1F560	🕡︎ 1F561	🕢︎ 1F562	🕣︎ 1F563	🕤︎ 1F564
9x	🕥︎ 1F565	🕦︎ 1F566	🕧︎ 1F567	🙨 1F668	🙩 1F669	⋅ 22C5	🞄 1F784	⦁ 2981	● 25CF	○ 25CB	🞅 1F785	🞇 1F787	🞉 1F789	⊙ 2299	⦿ 29BF	🞌 1F78C
Ax	🞍 1F78D	◾︎ 25FE	■ 25A0	□ 25A1	🞑 1F791	🞒 1F792	🞓 1F793	🞔 1F794	▣ 25A3	🞕 1F795	🞖 1F796	🞗 1F797	🞘 1F798	⬩ 2B29	⬥ 2B25	◇ 25C7
Bx	🞚 1F79A	◈ 25C8	🞛 1F79B	🞜 1F79C	🞝 1F79D	🞞 1F79E	⬪ 2B2A	⬧ 2B27	◊ 25CA	🞠 1F7A0	◖ 25D6	◗ 25D7	⯊ 2BCA	⯋ 2BCB	⯀ 2BC0	⯁ 2BC1
Cx	⬟ 2B1F	⯂ 2BC2	⬣ 2B23	⬢ 2B22	⯃ 2BC3	⯄ 2BC4	🞡 1F7A1	🞢 1F7A2	🞣 1F7A3	🞤 1F7A4	🞥 1F7A5	🞦 1F7A6	🞧 1F7A7	🞨 1F7A8	🞩 1F7A9	🞪 1F7AA
Dx	🞫 1F7AB	🞬 1F7AC	🞭 1F7AD	🞮 1F7AE	🞯 1F7AF	🞰 1F7B0	🞱 1F7B1	🞲 1F7B2	🞳 1F7B3	🞴 1F7B4	🞵 1F7B5	🞶 1F7B6	🞷 1F7B7	🞸 1F7B8	🞹 1F7B9	🞺 1F7BA
Ex	🞻 1F7BB	🞼 1F7BC	🞽 1F7BD	🞾 1F7BE	🞿 1F7BF	🟀 1F7C0	🟂 1F7C2	🟄 1F7C4	🟆 1F7C6	🟉 1F7C9	🟊 1F7CA	✶ 2736	🟌 1F7CC	🟎 1F7CE	🟐 1F7D0	🟒 1F7D2
Fx	✹ 2739	🟃 1F7C3	🟇 1F7C7	✯ 272F	🟍 1F7CD	🟔 1F7D4	⯌ 2BCC	⯍ 2BCD	※ 203B	⁂ 2042

Wingdings 3

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 keytops as defined in ISO/IEC 9995-7.

Wingdings 3
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
0x
1x
2x	SP	⭠ 2B60	⭢ 2B62	⭡ 2B61	⭣ 2B63	⭦ 2B66	⭧ 2B67	⭩ 2B69	⭨ 2B68	⭰ 2B70	⭲ 2B72	⭱ 2B71	⭳ 2B73	⭶ 2B76	⭸ 2B78	⭻ 2B7B
3x	⭽ 2B7D	⭤ 2B64	⭥ 2B65	⭪ 2B6A	⭬ 2B6C	⭫ 2B6B	⭭ 2B6D	⭍ 2B4D	⮠ 2BA0	⮡ 2BA1	⮢ 2BA2	⮣ 2BA3	⮤ 2BA4	⮥ 2BA5	⮦ 2BA6	⮧ 2BA7
4x	⮐ 2B90	⮑ 2B91	⮒ 2B92	⮓ 2B93	⮀ 2B80	⮃ 2B83	⭾ 2B7E	⭿ 2B7F	⮄ 2B84	⮆ 2B86	⮅ 2B85	⮇ 2B87	⮏ 2B8F	⮍ 2B8D	⮎ 2B8E	⮌ 2B8C
5x	⭮ 2B6E	⭯ 2B6F	⎋ 238B	⌤ 2324	⌃ 2303	⌥ 2325	␣ 2423	⍽ 237D	⇪ 21EA	⮸ 2BB8	🢠 1F8A0	🢡 1F8A1	🢢 1F8A2	🢣 1F8A3	🢤 1F8A4	🢥 1F8A5
6x	🢦 1F8A6	🢧 1F8A7	🢨 1F8A8	🢩 1F8A9	🢪 1F8AA	🢫 1F8AB	🡐 1F850	🡒 1F852	🡑 1F851	🡓 1F853	🡔 1F854	🡕 1F855	🡗 1F857	🡖 1F856	🡘 1F858	🡙 1F859
7x	▲ 25B2	▼ 25BC	△ 25B3	▽ 25BD	◀ 25C0	▶ 25B6	◁ 25C1	▷ 25B7	◣ 25E3	◢ 25E2	◤ 25E4	◥ 25E5	🞀 1F780	🞂 1F782	🞁 1F781
8x	🞃 1F783	⯅ 2BC5	⯆ 2BC6	⯇ 2BC7	⯈ 2BC8	⮜ 2B9C	⮞ 2B9E	⮝ 2B9D	⮟ 2B9F	🠐 1F810	🠒 1F812	🠑 1F811	🠓 1F813	🠔 1F814	🠖 1F816	🠕 1F815
9x	🠗 1F817	🠘 1F818	🠚 1F81A	🠙 1F819	🠛 1F81B	🠜 1F81C	🠞 1F81E	🠝 1F81D	🠟 1F81F	🠀 1F800	🠂 1F802	🠁 1F801	🠃 1F803	🠄 1F804	🠆 1F806	🠅 1F805
Ax	🠇 1F807	🠈 1F808	🠊 1F80A	🠉 1F809	🠋 1F80B	🠠 1F820	🠢 1F822	🠤 1F824	🠦 1F826	🠨 1F828	🠪 1F82A	🠬 1F82C	🢜 1F89C	🢝 1F89D	🢞 1F89E	🢟 1F89F
Bx	🠮 1F82E	🠰 1F830	🠲 1F832	🠴 1F834	🠶 1F836	🠸 1F838	🠺 1F83A	🠹 1F839	🠻 1F83B	🢘 1F898	🢚 1F89A	🢙 1F899	🢛 1F89B	🠼 1F83C	🠾 1F83E	🠽 1F83D
Cx	🠿 1F83F	🡀 1F840	🡂 1F842	🡁 1F841	🡃 1F843	🡄 1F844	🡆 1F846	🡅 1F845	🡇 1F847	⮨ 2BA8	⮩ 2BA9	⮪ 2BAA	⮫ 2BAB	⮬ 2BAC	⮭ 2BAD	⮮ 2BAE
Dx	⮯ 2BAF	🡠 1F860	🡢 1F862	🡡 1F861	🡣 1F863	🡤 1F864	🡥 1F865	🡧 1F867	🡦 1F866	🡰 1F870	🡲 1F872	🡱 1F871	🡳 1F873	🡴 1F874	🡵 1F875	🡷 1F877
Ex	🡶 1F876	🢀 1F880	🢂 1F882	🢁 1F881	🢃 1F883	🢄 1F884	🢅 1F885	🢇 1F887	🢆 1F886	🢐 1F890	🢒 1F892	🢑 1F891	🢓 1F893	🢔 1F894	🢖 1F896	🢕 1F895
Fx	🢗 1F897

Controversy

In 1992, only days after the release of Windows 3.1, it was discovered that "NYC" (New York City) in Wingdings was rendered as a skull and crossbones symbol, Star of David, and thumbs up gesture. This was often said to be an antisemitic message referencing New York's large Jewish community.^[7] Microsoft strongly denied this was intentional, and insisted that the final arrangement of the glyphs in the font was largely random. "NYC" in the later-released Webdings font was intentionally rendered as eye, heart, and city skyline, referring to the I Love New York logo.^[8]

After September 11, 2001, an email was circulated claiming that "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.^[7] This is a hoax; the flight numbers of the airplanes that hit the towers were AA11 and UA175; the tail numbers were N334AA and N612UA.^[9]

In popular culture

In the indie video game Undertale made by Toby Fox, a hidden character known as W. D. Gaster uses the Wingdings typeface to speak.^[10] In specific, Gaster uses it to speak during his Lab Entry #17, and on older versions of the Deltarune website.^[11] In a Saturday Night Live sketch in April 2024, Ryan Gosling plays Stephen Wingdings, son of Wingdings' fictitious creator — Jonathan Wingdings — a dad who was always "hard to read."^[12]^[13]

References

^ Bigelow, Charles (November 2005). "Notes on Lucida® designs". Archived from the original on 2023-12-12.
^ Unicode 7.0.0 Pictographic symbols (including many emoji), geometric symbols, arrows, and ornaments originating from the Wingdings and Webdings sets
^ Wingdings and Webdings Symbols (Unicode document 11-052) by Michel Suignard, 2011-02-15, the study of the repertoire and possibilities of unification
^ ^a ^b Fonts supplied with Windows 3.1.
^ ^a ^b ^c Wingdings font family
^ US patent D341848S, issued 1993-11-30
^ ^a ^b "Does Microsoft's Wingdings font includes hidden anti-Semitic and 9/11-referential messages?". Snopes.com. 11 December 2005. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
^ Glasner, Joanna (2001-09-22). "MS Denies Wingding Thing, Again". Archived from the original on 2014-05-01.
^ Christensen, Brett M. (9 February 2017). "Q33 NY Wingdings Hoax – Elevens and the Wrath of the Eagle". Hoax-Slayer. Archived from the original on 1 July 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
^ Creswell, Jacob (2021-08-14). "Undertale: Who Is W. D. Gaster?". CBR. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
^ "Deltarune.com on the Internet Archive".
^ Papyrus 2 - SNL. Retrieved 2024-04-17 – via www.youtube.com.
^ "Wingding Creator". Wingding Creator. Retrieved 2023-10-18.

[7] The character 255 (FF) represents the Windows icon, which as a corporate logo has no Unicode point. Similar Unicode characters include U+1FA9F 🪟︎ WINDOW. Compare the status of the Apple logo in Mac OS Roman and Mac OS Symbol.

[1] Bigelow, Charles (November 2005). "Notes on Lucida® designs". Archived from the original on 2023-12-12.

[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, the study of the repertoire and possibilities of unification

[microsoft1-4] Fonts supplied with Windows 3.1.

[microsoftdocs-5] Wingdings font family

[6] US patent D341848S, issued 1993-11-30

[Snopes-8] "Does Microsoft's Wingdings font includes hidden anti-Semitic and 9/11-referential messages?". Snopes.com. 11 December 2005. Retrieved 23 October 2014.

[wingdings-9] Glasner, Joanna (2001-09-22). "MS Denies Wingding Thing, Again". Archived from the original on 2014-05-01.

[10] Christensen, Brett M. (9 February 2017). "Q33 NY Wingdings Hoax – Elevens and the Wrath of the Eagle". Hoax-Slayer. Archived from the original on 1 July 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2018.

[11] Creswell, Jacob (2021-08-14). "Undertale: Who Is W. D. Gaster?". CBR. Retrieved 2023-10-18.

[12] "Deltarune.com on the Internet Archive".

[13] Papyrus 2 - SNL. Retrieved 2024-04-17 – via www.youtube.com.

[14] "Wingding Creator". Wingding Creator. Retrieved 2023-10-18.

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