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Poem typeset with generous use of decorative dingbats around the edges (1880s). Dingbats are not part of the text.
In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, specifically, 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 or used in bookbinding to order sections.[citation needed]
In the computer industry, a dingbat font is a computer font that has symbols and shapes located at the code points normally designated for alphabetical or numeric characters. This practice was necessitated by the limited number of code points available in 20th century operating systems. Modern computer fonts containing dingbats are based on Unicode encoding, which has unique code points for dingbat glyphs.
or other symbols instead of the intended characters. In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character)...
ITC 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...
Ornamental Dingbats is a Unicode block containing ornamental leaves, punctuation, and ampersands, quilt squares, and checkerboard patterns. It is a subset...
Dingbat Land is a 1949 short animated film produced by Terrytoons and distributed by 20th Century Fox starring Gandy Goose and Sourpuss. This short is...
Wingdings is a series of dingbat fonts that render letters as a variety of symbols. They were originally developed in 1990 by Microsoft by combining glyphs...
The Dingbat Family (also The Family Upstairs) is a comic strip by American cartoonist George Herriman that ran from June 20, 1910, to January 4, 1916...
The Dingbats of Danger Street are a fictional comic book gang of kids published by DC Comics. The Dingbats debuted in 1st Issue Special #6 (September 1975)...
The No 7 Mk 1 Dingbat mine is a British anti-personnel blast mine. The mine has a steel body, with a flexible pressure pad on the top surface. Under the...
Dialing for Dingbats is a 1989 romantic comedy directed by Peter Slodczyk and distributed by Troma Entertainment. The distribution company describes the...
Webdings is a TrueType dingbat typeface developed in 1997. It was initially distributed with Internet Explorer 4.0, then as part of Core fonts for the...
was named Miscellaneous Dingbats (not to be confused with current "Dingbats" block, which was then renamed to "Zapf Dingbats"). The following Unicode-related...
"Zapp Dingbat" is the fifth episode in the seventh season of the American animated television series Futurama, and the 119th episode of the series overall...
See also ◌́ Acute (accent) Apostrophe, Grave, Circumflex ❦ ❧ Aldus leaf Dingbat, Dinkus, Hedera, Index Fleuron ≈ Almost equal to Tilde, Double hyphen Approximation...
"Dingbat the Singing Cat" is a 1940s pop song by Freddy Martin and His Orchestra, adapted from Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf". Adapted and arranged...
Code page 437, the character set of the original IBM PC Unicode symbols Dingbat "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26...
List: /apple, mapping to F8FF. Athens (slab serif) Cairo was a bitmap dingbat font, most famous for the dogcow at the z character position. Chicago (sans-serif)...
The Watkinson Dingbat was a 1930s British ultralight monoplane designed by E.T. Watkinson and C.W. Taylor. The Dingbat, otherwise known as the Taylor Watkinson...
often treats her dismissively and uses disparaging language, calling her "dingbat". Their one child, Gloria (Sally Struthers), is generally kind and good-natured...
characters. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Form and Chart Components. Dingbat Block Elements (Unicode block) Geometric Shapes (Unicode block) Symbols...
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