Webdings and wingdings

Introduction

Wingdings and webdings are Microsoft dingbat fonts.

• “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.[1] 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.” (Wikipedia)
• Webdings is a TrueType dingbat font developed in 1997 and included in all versions of Microsoft Windows since that time. (Wikipedia)

Web and wingdings don't have unicode compatible [[Character encoding|. However, there are equivalents, but difficult to find ....

Pictures

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Wingdings 1

Wingdings 2

Wingdings 3

Webdings (some older version)

Use cases

To use these fonts under Vista (approximately, I got a french system)

• Program Menu -> accessories -> System tools -> character tables
• Then select and copy/paste

Flash

• Use as clipart

3D modeling

• Use as models or model components, i.e. write 3D text with google sketchup
• Create mashups with Duplos for printing using the RapMan printer.