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Note: [1] [2] Ornamental Dingbats is a Unicode block containing ornamental leaves , punctuation , and ampersands , quilt squares , and checkerboard patterns . It is a subset of dingbat fonts Webdings , Wingdings , and Wingdings 2 .
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 ...
Note: [1] [2] Geometric Shapes Extended is a Unicode block containing Webdings / Wingdings symbols, mostly different weights of squares , crosses , and saltires , and different weights of variously spoked asterisks , stars , and various color squares and circles for emoji.
An unusual character in the font was the "man in business suit levitating", a humanized exclamation point. According to Vincent Connare, who designed the font, the character was intended as a nod to the logo of the British ska record label 2 Tone Records. [2] The character has since been adopted as an emoji: U+1F574 MAN IN BUSINESS SUIT LEVITATING.
The Infobox for Wingdings 2 contains the name and picture of Wingdings 1 instead. The Infobox for Wingdings 3 properly shows Wingdings 3, so I suspect the 2nd one is a mistake. I believe it should be changed to "Wingdings 2" and the picture to a render of "🛇⓪⑤🙙🙧⓪⑤🙙⑩ 📋" using the font glyphs.
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 ...
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", [3] and thus no further ...
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 and Wingdings 2 character sets.