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 following antisemitic and/or Jewish ...

Phil Edwards was a senior producer for the Vox video team. Wingdings is the font made entirely out of symbols. But why? It seems as bizarre as it is ubiquitous. What is Wingdings thinking? Why ...

One of the time-honored rituals of bored term paper writers everywhere has been highlighting a block of text, selecting Wingdings from the fonts menu, and watching in amazement as the various ...

Bon Iver doesn’t have a monopoly on completely unintelligible song titles! Every so often, Four Tet mastermind Kieran Hebden releases a few tracks with a bunch of wingdings for titles under the ...

This time every year, 9/11 conspiracy theorists circulate a rumor about Microsoft’s Wingdings predicting the horror. It’s true to say that the font does contain some bizarre links to the ...

Internet sleuths are speculating that a new single titled using only wingdings is Four Tet's Kieran Hebden in disguise -- and they may be right.

A mysterious font like an emoji installed in Windows "WingdingsThere are a lot of people who have noticed that they have never used it, although they have seen them. Wingdings are not used much ...

Four Tet has released a surprise new EP under his cryptic Wingdings alias, sharing four new tracks each with unpronounceable titles.

Smart Automobile will undergo a massive overhaul by rebadging its entire model range using the obscure and long-forgotten Wingdings alphabet. The electric carmaker jointly owned by Mercedes-Benz ...

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 ...