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  2. Wingdings - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  3. Ornamental Dingbats - Wikipedia

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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 .

  4. Dingbat - Wikipedia

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    Poem typeset with generous use of decorative dingbats around the edges (1880s). Dingbats are not part of the text. In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, specifically, a glyph used in typesetting, often employed to create box frames (similar to box-drawing characters), or as a dinkus (section divider).

  5. Interrobang - Wikipedia

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    Lucida Grande, the default font for many UI elements of legacy versions of Apple's OS X operating system, includes the interrobang, and Microsoft provides several versions of the interrobang in the Wingdings 2 character set (on the right bracket and tilde keys on US keyboard layouts), included with Microsoft Office. [14]

  6. Check mark - Wikipedia

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    The check or check mark (American English), checkmark (Philippine English), tickmark (Indian English) or tick (Australian, New Zealand and British English) [1] is a mark ( , , etc.) used in many countries, including the English-speaking world, to indicate the concept "yes" (e.g. "yes; this has been verified", "yes; that is the correct answer ...

  7. Fleuron (typography) - Wikipedia

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    Thirty forms of fleuron have code points in Unicode.The Dingbats and Miscellaneous Symbols blocks have three fleurons that the standard calls "floral hearts" (also called "aldus leaf", "ivy leaf", "hedera" and "vine leaf"); [7] twenty-four fleurons (from the pre-Unicode Wingdings and Wingdings 2 fonts) in the Ornamental Dingbats block and three more fleurons used in archaic languages are also ...

  8. Webdings - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    Depending on local conventions, underscores (underlines) may be used on manuscripts (and historically on typescripts) to indicate the special typefaces to be used: [2] [3] single dashed underline for stet, 'let it stand', proof-reading mark cancelled. single straight underline for italic type; single wavy underline for bold type