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Aug 25, 2015 · Wingdings came from somewhere. As a means of writing sentences, Wingdings fails — but that was never its purpose. It was created to be used as a unique tool for the pre-internet era.
You can think of wingdings as the predecessor to emoji. It was introduced by Microsoft in Windows 3.1 as a way to be able to include symbols in their word processor. Most of them are commonly understood symbols gleaned from icons they licensed.
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]
Mar 11, 2016 · But where did Wingdings come from and how did the font even get that name? Phil Edwards and Sarah Turbin solve the mystery in the new, three-minute Vox video “Why The Wingdings Font...
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Mar 14, 2016 · As a solution, Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes invented Wingdings to create a way to use images quickly and easily, that would harmonise with text. Originally, the husband and wife team made three separate fonts called Lucida Icons, Lucida Arrows, and Lucida Stars, but they soon combined them all together to build the batsh*t font that we know ...
The history of the Wingdings font is a surprising one and explained quite well in a recent video by Phil Edwards for the Vox YouTube channel. The font was made famous (if fonts can be considered...
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Sep 30, 2015 · It seems to be the 1990s pre-emoji language that never took off... or an anomaly that exists for no reason at all. Where did Webdings come from? How is it different from Wingdings and Zapf Dingbats? Why were these weird typefaces created in the first place? And are there hidden messages within them? I decided to find out.
