Wingdings - doing my head in (part 1)

Okay. Have you ever noticed, in fonts, there’s a whole section with windings?

Never in my 25 years of using Office (Word… maybe a little shorter… but it seems like I’ve been using it half my life anyways) have I ever felt the urge to use a wingding.

But, I was watching Colbert and the subject came up. And I thought: yeah… what the hell are they?

So I scrolled through them and thought some more: buggered if I know.
Some sort of modern hyro.. heirocl… hieroglyph… or something?

So I googled and this is what popped up:
“Wingdings is a series of dingbat fonts that render letters as a variety of symbols.”

And I continued thinking: Oh, that certainly clears that up then!

So, uh, does anyone know what that means? Does anybody know why you’d ever use them? Does anybody actually ever use them?

Cheers. I think.

@shavixmir said
Okay. Have you ever noticed, in fonts, there’s a whole section with windings?

Never in my 25 years of using Office (Word… maybe a little shorter… but it seems like I’ve been using it half my life anyways) have I ever felt the urge to use a wingding.

But, I was watching Colbert and the subject came up. And I thought: yeah… what the hell are they?

So I scrolled throu ...[text shortened]... Does anybody know why you’d ever use them? Does anybody actually ever use them?

Cheers. I think.

@athousandyoung said
It's just a list of symbols like a smiley face or star of David e.g. this airplane - ✈ They aren't used for writing as a font.

@shavixmir

@wajoma said
Have you ever considered you're a wingdingbat for watching colbert.

Long ago in the 1980s we used the Wingdings fonts to display text which needed to be meaningless. Like the combination of symbols used to display profanity even now.

@kewpie said
Long ago in the 1980s we used the Wingdings fonts to display text which needed to be meaningless. Like the combination of symbols used to display profanity even now.

@shavixmir said
Okay. Have you ever noticed, in fonts, there’s a whole section with windings?

Never in my 25 years of using Office (Word… maybe a little shorter… but it seems like I’ve been using it half my life anyways) have I ever felt the urge to use a wingding.

But, I was watching Colbert and the subject came up. And I thought: yeah… what the hell are they?

So I scrolled throu ...[text shortened]... Does anybody know why you’d ever use them? Does anybody actually ever use them?

Cheers. I think.

@mott-the-hoople said
evidence of a sad life

@shavixmir said
So why would you use them?
Like an emoji or something?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbat

In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, a glyph used in typesetting, often employed to create box frames (similar to box-drawing characters) or as a dinkus (section divider). Some of the dingbat symbols have been used as signature marks, used in bookbinding to order sections.

@shavixmir said

So I scrolled through them and thought some more: buggered if I know.
Some sort of modern hyro.. heirocl… hieroglyph… or something?

Ha Ha shavpoo sucks. 😄

@wajoma said
I get it now, this was shag doodys attempt at humour, this bit here where he pretends he doesn't know how to spell hieroglyph, then pretends he doesn't know how to use spell check, then pretends he doesn't know how to use google or a dictionary is supposed to be self deprecating humour but falls flat because he spends the whole rest of his time deprecating everyone else.

Ho ...[text shortened]... they are, are 1.2 times better than this and are a more honest indication off where your mind is at.