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A dingbat is an ornament, character or spacer used in typesetting
Typesetting

Typesetting involves the presentation of textual material in graphic form on paper or some other Recording medium. Before the advent of desktop publishing, typesetting of printed material was produced in print shops by compositors or typesetters working by hand, and later with machines....
, sometimes more formally known as a "printer's ornament" or "printer's character".

The term continued to be used in the computer
Computer

A computer is a machine that manipulates Data according to a list of Code .The first devices that resemble modern computers date to the mid-20th century , although the computer concept and various machines similar to computers existed earlier....
 industry to describe fonts
Typeface

In typography, a typeface is a set of one or more fonts, in one or more sizes, designed with stylistic unity, each comprising a coordinated set of glyphs....
 that had symbols and shapes in the positions designated for alphabetical or numeric characters.

An example (something like ITC Zapf dingbats series 100):



Some web browser
Web browser

A Web browser is a application software which enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music, games and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network....
s may not render the above correctly, showing instead boxes or question marks.

The advent of Unicode
Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate Character expressed in most of the world's writing systems....
 and the universal character set
Universal Character Set

The Universal Character Set , defined by the International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission 10646 International Organization for Standardization, is a standard set of character s upon which many character encodings are based....
 it provides allowed commonly-used dingbats to be given their own character codes
Code point

In character encoding terminology a code point is any of the numerical values that make up the codespace. For example, ASCII comprises 128 code points in the range 0Hexadecimal to 7Fhex, Extended ASCII comprises 256 code points in the range 0Hexadecimal to FFhex, and Unicode comprises 1,114,112 code...
, from 2700 to 27BF.






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A dingbat is an ornament, character or spacer used in typesetting
Typesetting

Typesetting involves the presentation of textual material in graphic form on paper or some other Recording medium. Before the advent of desktop publishing, typesetting of printed material was produced in print shops by compositors or typesetters working by hand, and later with machines....
, sometimes more formally known as a "printer's ornament" or "printer's character".

The term continued to be used in the computer
Computer

A computer is a machine that manipulates Data according to a list of Code .The first devices that resemble modern computers date to the mid-20th century , although the computer concept and various machines similar to computers existed earlier....
 industry to describe fonts
Typeface

In typography, a typeface is a set of one or more fonts, in one or more sizes, designed with stylistic unity, each comprising a coordinated set of glyphs....
 that had symbols and shapes in the positions designated for alphabetical or numeric characters.

An example (something like ITC Zapf dingbats series 100):

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Tick (checkmark)

A tick is a mark used to indicate the concept "yes", for example "yes; this has been verified" or, "yes; that is the correct answer". Its opposite is the x mark, although the x mark can also be positive ....
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Cross pattée

A cross patt?e is a type of cross that has arms which are narrow at the center, and broader at the perimeter. The name comes from the fact that the shape of each arm of the cross was thought to resemble a paw ....
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Star of David

The Star of David or Shield of David is a generally recognized symbol of Jewish identity and Judaism.It is named after King David of History of ancient Israel and Judah; and its earliest known communal usage began in the Middle Ages, alongside the more ancient symbol of the Menorah ....
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Star (symbol)

The star , as an ideograph, most commonly represents the astronomy star for which it is named....
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Starburst (symbol)

A starburst is a symbol consisting of a star surrounded by rays emanating from it. In Unicode, the starburst character is U+273A.This can also refer to the "combining cyrillic millions" character: . The Unicode is U+0489....
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Some web browser
Web browser

A Web browser is a application software which enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music, games and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network....
s may not render the above correctly, showing instead boxes or question marks.

The advent of Unicode
Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate Character expressed in most of the world's writing systems....
 and the universal character set
Universal Character Set

The Universal Character Set , defined by the International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission 10646 International Organization for Standardization, is a standard set of character s upon which many character encodings are based....
 it provides allowed commonly-used dingbats to be given their own character codes
Code point

In character encoding terminology a code point is any of the numerical values that make up the codespace. For example, ASCII comprises 128 code points in the range 0Hexadecimal to 7Fhex, Extended ASCII comprises 256 code points in the range 0Hexadecimal to FFhex, and Unicode comprises 1,114,112 code...
, from 2700 to 27BF. Although fonts claiming Unicode coverage will contain glyph
Glyph

A glyph is an element of writing. Two or more glyphs representing the same symbol, whether interchangeable or context-dependent, are called allographs; the abstract unit they are variants of is called a grapheme or character ....
s for dingbats in addition to alphabetic characters, fonts that have dingbats in place of alphabetic characters continue to be popular, primarily for ease of input
Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate Character expressed in most of the world's writing systems....
.

Unicode dingbats



Typefaces

For more examples of dingbat typefaces, see Wingdings
Wingdings

Wingdings are a series of dingbat typefaces which render letters as a variety of symbols. They were originally developed in 1990 by Microsoft by combining glyphs from Lucida Icons, Arrows, and Stars licensed from Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes....
 and Webdings
Webdings

Webdings is a TrueType dingbat typeface developed in 1997 and included in all versions of Microsoft Windows since that time. Most of the glyphs have no Unicode character equivalents....
. Another famous dingbat typeface, Zapf Dingbats
Zapf Dingbats

Zapf Dingbats is one of the more common dingbat typefaces. It was designed by the typographer Hermann Zapf in 1978 and licensed by International Typeface Corporation....
, was designed by the typographer Hermann Zapf
Hermann Zapf

Hermann Zapf is a German typeface designer who lives in Darmstadt, Germany. He is married to calligrapher and typeface designer Gudrun Zapf von Hesse....
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See also

  • Miscellaneous Symbols
    Miscellaneous Symbols

    The Miscellaneous Symbols plane of Unicode contains various glyphs representing things from a variety of categories: Astrological, Astronomical, Chess, Dice, Ideological symbols, Musical notation, Political symbols, Recycling, Religious symbols, Trigrams, Warning signs and Weather....
  • Simlish
    Simlish

    Simlish is a Artistic language featured in Maxis' Sim series of games. It debuted in SimCopter, and has been especially prominent in The Sims and The Sims 2 and The Sims 3....


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