Two people made Wingdings happen: Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes (proprietors of the firm and husband-and-wife team). As designers of the font Lucida, they crafted pioneering type uniquely suited ...

When Microsoft bought the rights in the 1980s, the font was renamed Wingdings, an amalgam of Windows and Dingbats. The name also conveyed a certain lighthearted spirit, since “wingding” is an ...

In 1992, mere days after Windows 3.1 was released, it was revealed that typing the letters NYC in Wingdings—Microsoft’s all-symbols font—produced the. Skip to content Gizmodo. Search .

Q. To keep my documents away from prying eyes at the office, I saved some of them in the Wingdings font that turns each letter into some kind of graphic symbol like an asterisk, arrow or a Greek ...

The Wingdings font contains 220 pictures that correspond to upper and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols on the keyboard. The set of graphics was intended to provide common symbols.

Wingdings is the font made entirely out of symbols. But why does it exist? As a means of writing sentences, Wingdings fails — but that was never its purpose. It was created to be used as a ...