Webdings

Webdings Encoding
Language(s)	Dingbat ornaments
Definitions	UTC L2/12-368
Classification	msttcore pi font
Other related encoding(s)	Wingdings, Zapf Dingbats, Bookshelf Symbol 7

Webdings
Category	Symbol
Designer(s)	Vincent Connare; Sue Lightfoot; Ian Patterson; Geraldine Wade
Foundry	Microsoft

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 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

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
0_	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
1_	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
2_	SP 0020 32	🕷 1F577 33	🕸 1F578 34	🕲 1F572 35	🕶 1F576 36	🏆 1F3C6 37	🎖 1F396 38	🖇 1F587 39	🗨 1F5E8 40	🗩 1F5E9 41	🗰 1F5F0 42	🗱 1F5F1 43	🌶 1F336 44	🎗 1F397 45	🙾 1F67E 46	🙼 1F67C 47
3_	🗕 1F5D5 48	🗖 1F5D6 49	🗗 1F5D7 50	⏴ 23F4 51	⏵ 23F5 52	⏶ 23F6 53	⏷ 23F7 54	⏪ 23EA 55	⏩ 23E9 56	⏮ 23EE 57	⏭ 23ED 58	⏸ 23F8 59	⏹ 23F9 60	⏺ 23FA 61	🗚 1F5DA 62	🗳 1F5F3 63
4_	🛠 1F6E0 64	🏗 1F3D7 65	🏘 1F3D8 66	🏙 1F3D9 67	🏚 1F3DA 68	🏜 1F3DC 69	🏭 1F3ED 70	🏛 1F3DB 71	🏠 1F3E0 72	🏖 1F3D6 73	🏝 1F3DD 74	🛣 1F6E3 75	🔍 1F50D 76	🏔 1F3D4 77	👁 1F441 78	👂 1F442 79
5_	🏞 1F3DE 80	🏕 1F3D5 81	🛤 1F6E4 82	🏟 1F3DF 83	🛲 1F6F3 84	🕬 1F56C 85	🕫 1F56B 86	🕨 1F568 87	🔈 1F508 88	🎔 1F394 89	🎕 1F395 90	🗬 1F5EC 91	🙽 1F67D 92	🗭 1F5ED 93	🗪 1F5EA 94	🗫 1F5EB 95
6_	⮔ 2B94 96	✔ 2714 97	🚲 1F6B2 98	⬜ 2B1C 99	🛡 1F6E1 100	📦 1F4E6 101	🛱 1F6F1 102	⬛ 2B1B 103	🚑 1F691 104	🛈 1F6C8 105	🛩 1F6E9 106	🛰 1F6F0 107	🟈 1F7C8 108	🕴 1F574 109	⬤ 2B24 110	🛥 1F6E5 111
7_	🚔 1F694 112	🗘 1F5D8 113	🗙 1F5D9 114	❓ 2753 115	🛲 1F6F2 116	🚇 1F687 117	🚍 1F68D 118	⛳ 26F3 119	⦸ 29B8 120	⊖ 2296 121	🚭 1F6AD 122	🗮 1F5EE 123	⏐ 23D0 124	🗯 1F5EF 125	🗲 1F5F2 126	127
8_	🚹 1F6B9 128	🚺 1F6BA 129	🛉 1F6C9 130	🛊 1F6CA 131	🚼 1F6BC 132	👽 1F47D 133	🏋 1F3CB 134	⛷ 26F7 135	🏂 1F3C2 136	🏌 1F3CC 137	🏊 1F3CA 138	🏄 1F3C4 139	🏍 1F3CD 140	🏎 1F3CE 141	🚘 1F698 142	🗠 1F5E0 143
9_	🛢 1F6E2 144	💰 1F4E0 145	🏷 1F3F7 146	💳 1F4E3 147	👪 1F46A 148	🗡 1F5E1 149	🗢 1F5E2 150	🗣 1F5E3 151	✯ 272F 152	🖄 1F584 153	🖅 1F585 154	🖃 1F583 155	🖆 1F586 156	🖹 1F5B9 157	🖺 1F5BA 158	🖻 1F5BB 159
A_	🕵 1F575 160	🕰 1F570 161	🖽 1F5BD 162	🖾 1F5BE 163	📋 1F4CB 164	🗒 1F5D2 165	🗓 1F5D3 166	🕮 1F56E 167	📚 1F4DA 168	🗞 1F5DE 169	🗟 1F5DF 170	🗃 1F5C3 171	🗂 1F5C2 172	🖼 1F5BC 173	🎭 1F3AD 174	🎜 1F39C 175
B_	🎘 1F398 176	🎙 1F399 177	🎧 1F3A7 178	💿 1F4BF 179	🎞 1F39E 180	📷 1F4F7 181	🎟 1F39F 182	🎬 1F3AC 183	📽 1F4FD 184	📹 1F4F9 185	📾 1F4FE 186	📻 1F4FB 187	🎚 1F39A 188	🎛 1F39B 189	📺 1F4FA 190	💻 1F4BB 191
C_	🖥 1F5A5 192	🖦 1F5A6 193	🖧 1F5A7 194	🕹 1F379 195	🎮 1F3AE 196	🕻 1F3AE 197	🕼 1F57B 198	📟 1F57C 199	🖁 1F581 200	🖀 1F580 201	🖨 1F5A8 202	🖩 1F5A9 203	🖿 1F5BF 204	🖪 1F5AA 205	🗜 1F5DC 206	🔒 1F512 207
D_	🔓 1F513 208	🗝 1F5DD 209	📥 1F4E5 210	📤 1F4E4 211	🕳 1F573 212	🌣 1F323 213	🌤 1F324 214	🌥 1F325 215	🌦 1F326 216	☁ 2601 217	🌨 1F328 218	🌧 1F327 219	🌩 1F329 220	🌪 1F32A 221	🌬 1F32C 222	🌫 1F32B 223
E_	🌜 1F31C 224	🌡 1F321 225	🛋 1F6CB 226	🛏 1F6CF 227	🍽 1F37D 228	🍸 1F378 229	🛎 1F6CE 230	🛍 1F6CD 231	Ⓟ 24C5 232	♿ 267F 233	🛆 1F6C6 234	🖈 1F588 235	🎓 1F393 236	🗤 1F5E4 237	🗥 1F5E5 238	🗦 1F5E6 239
F_	🗧 1F5E7 240	🛪 1F6EA 241	🐿 1F43F 242	🐦 1F426 243	🐟 1F41F 244	🐕 1F415 245	🐈 1F408 246	🙬 1F66C 247	🙮 1F66E 248	🙭 1F66D 249	🙯 1F66F 250	🗺 1F5FA 251	🌍 1F30D 252	🌏 1F30F 253	🌎 1F30E 254	🕊 1F54A 255
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F

References

↑ "Unicode 7.0.0". Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
1 2 3 Veix, Joe (30 March 2016). "The secret history of the 'Man in Business Suit Levitating' emoji". Newsweek. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
↑ MS Denies Wingding Thing, Again|Wired Magazine

External links

Webdings font information (Microsoft typography)
Webdings info page (Microsoft typography)
Downloadable version of Webdings for Windows (Core fonts for the Web)

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[1] "Unicode 7.0.0". Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 2014-06-27.

[veix-2] 1 2 3 Veix, Joe (30 March 2016). "The secret history of the 'Man in Business Suit Levitating' emoji". Newsweek. Retrieved 2 December 2016.

[wingdings-3] MS Denies Wingding Thing, Again|Wired Magazine

Webdings

Symbol Types

Character set

See also

References

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