Wingdings

Wingdings is a TrueType font that contains a set of graphical symbols instead of letters. The font comes with all editions of Microsoft Windows since version 3.1.

It was composed in 1990 by Microsoft of characters that have been licensed from Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. This had designed the icons for their Lucida font family. Contained in Scripture include ideograms known as the phone icon and the Star of David as well as arrows and the signs of the zodiac. Other variants appeared under the name Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3, and Webdings.

Although this character set is not available in Unicode, many symbols found it in the Unicode Dingbats block.

Internet Myths

Just days after the release of Windows 3.1 in 1992, turned out that the string "NYC " (New York City ) is shown in Wingdings by a skull, a Star of David and a hand with the thumb up. While critics saw it as an anti-Semitic message, Microsoft said that the allocation of the different icons to individual letters in the creation of the font is carried out largely by chance and an anti-Semitic connotation was therefore absolutely unintentional.

In the later published by Microsoft Webdings font, type "NYC " by an eye, a heart and the silhouette of a city shows what slang for " I love New York" is.

After the events of September 11, 2001 in New York, the Internet was rumored that one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center, the flight number Q33 NY had what ( representing here towers) in Wingdings an airplane, two leaves, a skull and the Star of David represents, however, none of the planes had the number Q33 NY.

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