Editing Wingdings (section)

{{short description|Fonts for dingbats (decorational glyphs and symbols)}}
{{not to be confused with|Webdings}}
{{Contains special characters|emoticon}}
{{Infobox character encoding
|name = Wingdings series
|alias = 
|image = 
|caption = 
|definitions = [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12368-n4384.pdf UTC L2/12-368]
|lang = [[Dingbat]] ornaments
|otherrelated = [[Webdings]], [[Zapf Dingbats]], [[Bookshelf Symbol 7]]
|classification = [[Pi font]]s
}}

'''Wingdings''' is a series of [[dingbat]] [[typeface|font]]s that render letters as a variety of symbols. They were originally developed in 1990 by [[Microsoft]] by combining [[glyph]]s from [[Lucida (font)|Lucida]] Icons, Arrows, and Stars licensed from [[Charles Bigelow (type designer)|Charles Bigelow]] and [[Kris Holmes]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.tug.org/store/lucida/designnotes.html |title=Notes on Lucida&reg; designs |last=Bigelow |first=Charles |date=November 2005 |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20231212193419/https://tug.org/store/lucida/designnotes.html |archive-date=2023-12-12 }}</ref> Certain versions of the font's copyright string include attribution to Type Solutions, Inc., the maker of a tool used to [[font hinting|hint]] the font.

None of the characters were mapped to [[Unicode]] at the time; however, Unicode approved the addition of many symbols in the Wingdings and [[Webdings]] fonts in Unicode 7.0.<ref>[https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode7.0.0/#Database_Changes Unicode 7.0.0] Pictographic symbols (including many emoji), geometric symbols, arrows, and ornaments originating from the Wingdings and Webdings sets</ref><ref>[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11052r-wingding.pdf Wingdings and Webdings Symbols] (Unicode document 11-052) by Michel Suignard, 2011-02-15, the study of the repertoire and possibilities of unification</ref>