Why certain symbols became Wingdings “We were influenced by images from similar historical and modern sources,” Bigelow says. The Lucida Icons spanned many eras.

The proud, noble heritage of Wingdings goes back to the earliest days of printing when text had to be set by hand, laboriously, one letter at a time. Printing anything was tedious, let alone ...

An update to Unicode Standard is now available, and introduces approximately 250 emoji pictographic symbols, including the long-awaited middle finger.

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 ...