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. 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.
Wingdings is a TrueType dingbat font included in all versions of Micr...
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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. 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.
Wingdings is a TrueType dingbat font included in all versions of Microsoft Windows starting with version 3.1.
The Wingdings trademark is owned by Microsoft, and the glyph order was patented. This font contains many largely recognized shapes and gestures as well as some recognized world symbols, such as the Star of David and the symbols of the Zodiac. The font is not mapped to Unicode, although many of its symbols are available in that system.
Wingdings 2 is a TrueType font distributed, for example, with Microsoft Office. The font was developed in 1990 by Type Solutions, Inc. Now the copyright holder is...
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