Phil Edwards was a senior producer for the Vox video team. Wingdings is the font made entirely out of symbols. But why? It seems as bizarre as it is ubiquitous. What is Wingdings thinking?

In 1992, mere days after Windows 3.1 was released, it was revealed that typing the letters NYC in Wingdings—Microsoft’s all-symbols font—produced the following antisemitic and/or Jewish ...

One of the time-honored rituals of bored term paper writers everywhere has been highlighting a block of text, selecting Wingdings from the fonts menu, and watching in amazement as the various ...

This time every year, 9/11 conspiracy theorists circulate a rumor about Microsoft’s Wingdings predicting the horror. It’s true to say that the font does contain some bizarre links to the attack.

Kuresman said Microsoft did consider altering the Wingdings font in the early 1990s, after concerns over the perceived anti-Semitic message first surfaced. However, the company decided that ...

MIBSL was born in the late '90s, while Microsoft was working on Internet Explorer 4.0. The browser featured a new symbol font called Webdings, a sort of web-optimized version of Wingdings.

Wingdings is the font made entirely out of symbols. But why does it exist? As a means of writing sentences, Wingdings fails — but that was never its purpose. It was created to be used as a ...