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 ...

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Concerns about disturbing symbolic messages in a graphical font, which Microsoft believed it had assuaged nearly a decade ago, are resurfacing in the wake of terrorist attacks on New York. Now the ...

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. For ...

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 ...

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 letters, ...

A Japanese company called Solid Alliance has released a line of USB flash drives that come loaded up with whacky hieroglyphic messages. The meanings are somewhat obvious, friendship, love, etc.

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 unique tool ...