The unknown history of why the font "Wingdings" like a mysterious emoji exists

A mysterious font like an emoji installed in Windows "WingdingsThere are a lot of people who have noticed that they have never used it, although they have seen them. Wingdings are not used much, but why on earth are there? A movie of unknown history is released on YouTube.

Why the Wingdings font exists - YouTube


There are a lot of people who have seen the font "Wingdings" which thinks "When to use when?", Such as a mark combining a circle and a cross, a pointing mark, a hexagonal star, etc.


Actually, it is Wingdings font which is used less frequently ... ...


In fact, its history goes back to the time when the font was mainly handled only in the publishing and printing industry before the Internet appeared. Currently typing method is used, but there is a time when typing did not exist.


In other words, instead of typing letters, it is an era when you have arranged each character by hand.


Of course, this method required a lot of time to publish and print articles.


Also, since the decorative characters are different from normal characters, it takes more time and effort.


So, the printing company created Dingbat, so-called emoji font, to make printing easier.


Just a plain paper surface ......


Using Dingbat will quickly become gorgeous.


Even if you do not bother to make typography of decorative letters from 1 according to the article, it is used frequently as Dingbat can decorate efficiently by using it.


In the same period,Hermann TsapHe was active as a typeface designer.


Made by TsapZuffinoAlthough it was used in letterpress printing, its beauty attracted attention, and even now it is installed as a font on many computers.


Zap, which was, as it were, a bridge between the analog era and the digital era,Zapf DingbatsI also designed the original emoji.


And two designers, Charles Bigelow and Chris Holmes, are greatly influenced by Zap and are pictograms of the digital worldLucida Icons,Lucida ArrowsI made pictograms such as.


Dingbat "in the printing age was also brought into the digital generation as Microsoft purchased the rights of the icon created by two people and implemented it in Windows under the name" Wingdings ".


However, initially the significance of Wingdings was overlooked. Because typing in New York City's abbreviation "NYC" with Wingdings ... ...


It was transformed as a skull mark, a hexagon star, and a mark like a good mark, and in 1992 the New York Post protested that "This is also received in discrimination against Judaism."


Therefore, it is now changed to an emoji that can be taken as "I Love New York".


However, originally Wingdings's purpose is not to type like characters but to simplify the message as "Dingbat" to "save time."


It is Wingdings which was used less frequently now, but in reality it is a senior in pictograms and it was a successful person who made it possible to "communicate a message in a short time".