Webdings

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Short description: Typeface for dingbats (decorational symbols and glyphs)
Webdings
Webdings.svg
CategorySymbol
Designer(s)Vincent Connare
Sue Lightfoot
Ian Patterson
Geraldine Wade
FoundryMicrosoft

Webdings is a TrueType dingbat typeface developed in 1997. It was initially distributed with Internet Explorer 4.0, then as part of Core fonts for the Web, and is included in all versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 98. All of the pictographic Webding glyphs that are not unifiable with existing Unicode characters were added to the Unicode Standard when version 7.0 was released in June 2014.[1]

Symbol types

Webdings Encoding
Language(s)Dingbat ornaments
DefinitionsUTC L2/12-368
Classificationmsttcore pi font
Other related encoding(s)Marlett, Wingdings, Zapf Dingbats, Bookshelf Symbol 7

There are some "categories" of symbols in Webdings; groups of similar symbols. Symbol trends like this in the font include weather icons, land with different structures built on top, vehicles and ICT. Symbols which are the Webdings equivalent of characters not available on an English keyboard also exist in the font (for example, the dove and Earth symbols).

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.

Connare also designed the lightning bolt symbol to resemble the one on the cover of the David Bowie album Aladdin Sane.[2]

Following the controversy over possible anti-Semitic messages in the Wingdings font, Connare intentionally rendered the Webdings character sequence "NYC" as an eye, a heart, and a city skyline, referring to the I Love New York logo.[3][2]

Webdings font sample showing the Webdings encoding

Character set

Webdings
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
 SP  ๐Ÿ•ท
1F577
๐Ÿ•ธ
1F578
๐Ÿ•ฒ
1F572
๐Ÿ•ถ
1F576
๐Ÿ†︎
1F3C6
๐ŸŽ–
1F396
๐Ÿ–‡
1F587
๐Ÿ—จ
1F5E8
๐Ÿ—ฉ
1F5E9
๐Ÿ—ฐ
1F5F0
๐Ÿ—ฑ
1F5F1
๐ŸŒถ
1F336
๐ŸŽ—
1F397
๐Ÿ™พ
1F67E
๐Ÿ™ผ
1F67C
๐Ÿ—•
1F5D5
๐Ÿ—–
1F5D6
๐Ÿ——
1F5D7
โด
23F4
โต
23F5
โถ
23F6
โท
23F7
โช︎
23EA
โฉ︎
23E9
โฎ
23EE
โญ
23ED
โธ
23F8
โน
23F9
โบ
23FA
๐Ÿ—š
1F5DA
๐Ÿ—ณ
1F5F3
๐Ÿ› 
1F6E0
๐Ÿ—
1F3D7
๐Ÿ˜
1F3D8
๐Ÿ™
1F3D9
๐Ÿš
1F3DA
๐Ÿœ
1F3DC
๐Ÿญ︎
1F3ED
๐Ÿ›
1F3DB
๐Ÿ ︎
1F3E0
๐Ÿ–
1F3D6
๐Ÿ
1F3DD
๐Ÿ›ฃ
1F6E3
๐Ÿ”︎
1F50D
๐Ÿ”
1F3D4
๐Ÿ‘
1F441
๐Ÿ‘‚︎
1F442
๐Ÿž
1F3DE
๐Ÿ•
1F3D5
๐Ÿ›ค
1F6E4
๐ŸŸ
1F3DF
๐Ÿ›ณ
1F6F3
๐Ÿ•ฌ
1F56C
๐Ÿ•ซ
1F56B
๐Ÿ•จ
1F568
๐Ÿ”ˆ︎
1F508
๐ŸŽ”
1F394
๐ŸŽ•
1F395
๐Ÿ—ฌ
1F5EC
๐Ÿ™ฝ
1F67D
๐Ÿ—ญ
1F5ED
๐Ÿ—ช
1F5EA
๐Ÿ—ซ
1F5EB
โฎ”
2B94
โœ”
2714
๐Ÿšฒ︎
1F6B2
โฌœ︎
2B1C
๐Ÿ›ก
1F6E1
๐Ÿ“ฆ︎
1F4E6
๐Ÿ›ฑ
1F6F1
โฌ›︎
2B1B
๐Ÿš‘︎
1F691
๐Ÿ›ˆ
1F6C8
๐Ÿ›ฉ
1F6E9
๐Ÿ›ฐ
1F6F0
๐ŸŸˆ
1F7C8
๐Ÿ•ด︎
1F574
โฌค
2B24
๐Ÿ›ฅ
1F6E5
๐Ÿš”︎
1F694
๐Ÿ—˜
1F5D8
๐Ÿ—™
1F5D9
โ“︎
2753
๐Ÿ›ฒ
1F6F2
๐Ÿš‡︎
1F687
๐Ÿš︎
1F68D
โ›ณ︎
26F3
โฆธ
29B8
โŠ–
2296
๐Ÿšญ︎
1F6AD
๐Ÿ—ฎ
1F5EE
โ
23D0
๐Ÿ—ฏ
1F5EF
๐Ÿ—ฒ
1F5F2
๐Ÿšน︎
1F6B9
๐Ÿšบ︎
1F6BA
๐Ÿ›‰
1F6C9
๐Ÿ›Š
1F6CA
๐Ÿšผ︎
1F6BC
๐Ÿ‘ฝ︎
1F47D
๐Ÿ‹︎
1F3CB
โ›ท
26F7
๐Ÿ‚︎
1F3C2
๐ŸŒ︎
1F3CC
๐ŸŠ︎
1F3CA
๐Ÿ„︎
1F3C4
๐Ÿ
1F3CD
๐ŸŽ
1F3CE
๐Ÿš˜︎
1F698
๐Ÿ— 
1F5E0
๐Ÿ›ข
1F6E2
๐Ÿ’ฐ︎
1F4B0
๐Ÿท
1F3F7
๐Ÿ’ณ︎
1F4B3
๐Ÿ‘ช︎
1F46A
๐Ÿ—ก
1F5E1
๐Ÿ—ข
1F5E2
๐Ÿ—ฃ
1F5E3
โœฏ
272F
๐Ÿ–„
1F584
๐Ÿ–…
1F585
๐Ÿ–ƒ
1F583
๐Ÿ–†
1F586
๐Ÿ–น
1F5B9
๐Ÿ–บ
1F5BA
๐Ÿ–ป
1F5BB
๐Ÿ•ต︎
1F575
๐Ÿ•ฐ
1F570
๐Ÿ–ฝ
1F5BD
๐Ÿ–พ
1F5BE
๐Ÿ“‹︎
1F4CB
๐Ÿ—’
1F5D2
๐Ÿ—“
1F5D3
๐Ÿ•ฎ
1F56E
๐Ÿ“š︎
1F4DA
๐Ÿ—ž
1F5DE
๐Ÿ—Ÿ
1F5DF
๐Ÿ—ƒ
1F5C3
๐Ÿ—‚
1F5C2
๐Ÿ–ผ
1F5BC
๐ŸŽญ︎
1F3AD
๐ŸŽœ
1F39C
๐ŸŽ˜
1F398
๐ŸŽ™
1F399
๐ŸŽง︎
1F3A7
๐Ÿ’ฟ︎
1F4BF
๐ŸŽž
1F39E
๐Ÿ“ท︎
1F4F7
๐ŸŽŸ
1F39F
๐ŸŽฌ︎
1F3AC
๐Ÿ“ฝ
1F4FD
๐Ÿ“น︎
1F4F9
๐Ÿ“พ
1F4FE
๐Ÿ“ป︎
1F4FB
๐ŸŽš
1F39A
๐ŸŽ›
1F39B
๐Ÿ“บ︎
1F4FA
๐Ÿ’ป︎
1F4BB
๐Ÿ–ฅ
1F5A5
๐Ÿ–ฆ
1F5A6
๐Ÿ–ง
1F5A7
๐Ÿ•น
1F579
๐ŸŽฎ︎
1F3AE
๐Ÿ•ป
1F57B
๐Ÿ•ผ
1F57C
๐Ÿ“Ÿ︎
1F4DF
๐Ÿ–
1F581
๐Ÿ–€
1F580
๐Ÿ–จ
1F5A8
๐Ÿ–ฉ
1F5A9
๐Ÿ–ฟ
1F5BF
๐Ÿ–ช
1F5AA
๐Ÿ—œ
1F5DC
๐Ÿ”’︎
1F512
๐Ÿ”“︎
1F513
๐Ÿ—
1F5DD
๐Ÿ“ฅ︎
1F4E5
๐Ÿ“ค︎
1F4E4
๐Ÿ•ณ
1F573
๐ŸŒฃ
1F323
๐ŸŒค
1F324
๐ŸŒฅ
1F325
๐ŸŒฆ
1F326
โ˜
2601
๐ŸŒจ
1F328
๐ŸŒง
1F327
๐ŸŒฉ
1F329
๐ŸŒช
1F32A
๐ŸŒฌ
1F32C
๐ŸŒซ
1F32B
๐ŸŒœ︎
1F31C
๐ŸŒก
1F321
๐Ÿ›‹
1F6CB
๐Ÿ›
1F6CF
๐Ÿฝ
1F37D
๐Ÿธ︎
1F378
๐Ÿ›Ž
1F6CE
๐Ÿ›
1F6CD
โ“…
24C5
โ™ฟ︎
267F
๐Ÿ›†
1F6C6
๐Ÿ–ˆ
1F588
๐ŸŽ“︎
1F393
๐Ÿ—ค
1F5E4
๐Ÿ—ฅ
1F5E5
๐Ÿ—ฆ
1F5E6
๐Ÿ—ง
1F5E7
๐Ÿ›ช
1F6EA
๐Ÿฟ
1F43F
๐Ÿฆ︎
1F426
๐ŸŸ︎
1F41F
๐Ÿ•︎
1F415
๐Ÿˆ︎
1F408
๐Ÿ™ฌ
1F66C
๐Ÿ™ฎ
1F66E
๐Ÿ™ญ
1F66D
๐Ÿ™ฏ
1F66F
๐Ÿ—บ
1F5FA
๐ŸŒ︎
1F30D
๐ŸŒ︎
1F30F
๐ŸŒŽ︎
1F30E
๐Ÿ•Š
1F54A

Vincent Connare

The man who created Webdings also created several other fonts including Comic Sans and Trebuchet MS. Webdings was created due to the demand of the new digital age; hence Connare was told to draft up a font that was "creative," "friendly" and "hand-drawn".[4] Jennifer Niederst, author of "Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference," talks about Connare's work with type, including Webdings. Niederst states in her book, "These fonts have generous character spacing, large x-heights, and open, rounded features that make them better for online reading," which further comments on the kind of fonts Connare was told to create.[5]

Opportunities

People such as Karl Pentzlin have proposed that dingbat typefaces, such as Webdings, be encoded to Apple devices or more handheld devices in general.[6] There are also organizations and individuals such as Michal Suignard who have created proposals for Webdings to be encoded in the "international character encoding standard Unicode".[7] Both of these proposal examples also include other dingbat typefaces such as Wingdings.

Webdings has also been used to help create artwork. In the case of Pat Boas, it has been stated that in Boas's work titled, โ€œAbstraction Machine,โ€ she "began by typing 'poison' in the font called 'Webdings,'..." which helped Boas to create a painting that challenged the audience to de-code its meaning.[8] Boas also notes how the artwork captures a dialogue between the Webdings typeface, which is based in logic, and the handpainted artwork, which is "sensuous".[8]

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