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A Short History Of The Wingdings Font [video]
Published March 15, 2016 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: desktop publishing, dtp, font, history, printing, type, typesetting, video, Wingdings, Wingdings Font, writing
A Short History Of Wingdings
Published August 28, 2015 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Bigelow & Holmes, Charles Bigelow, dingbats, font, Fontophile, Lucida, tech history, type, typeface, typesetting, Wingdings, Zapf
It seems as bizarre as it is ubiquitous. What is Wingdings thinking? Why would someone want to write a comma using a mailbox? Why would anyone think we want to compose in peace signs and crosses and heart shapes? But Wingdings is much more than just a quirky font. It was —and remains — a phenomenon.