Jump to content

Dingbat: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous edit
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
m update ref dates
Dazmax (talk | contribs)
41 edits
Mention "pi font" term since that redirects here and isn't explained elsewhere.
 
(86 intermediate revisions by 48 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Short description|Typographic symbol class}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}
{{About|the typesetter's ornament}}
{{About|the typesetter's ornament}}
{{Contains emoticon}}
{{Contains special characters|emoticon}}


[[File:DingbatPoem.jpg|thumb|right|Poem typeset with generous use of decorative dingbats around the edges 1880s. Dingbats are not part of the text.]]
[[File:DingbatPoem.jpg|thumb|right|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 (art)|ornament]], character, or spacer used in [[typesetting]], often employed for the creation of box frames (similar to [[box-drawing character]]s). The term continues to be used in the [[computer]] industry to describe [[Typeface|fonts]] that have symbols and shapes in the positions designated for alphabetical or numeric characters.
In typography, a '''dingbat''' (sometimes more formally known as a '''printer's ornament''' or '''printer's character''') is an [[ornament (art)|ornament]], specifically, a [[glyph]] used in [[typesetting]], often employed to create box frames (similar to [[box-drawing character]]s), or as a [[dinkus]] (section divider). Some of the dingbat symbols have been used as [[signature mark]]s or used in [[bookbinding]] to order sections.{{cn|date=October 2020}}


In the computer industry, a '''dingbat font''' or '''pi font'''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/us/en/products/type/Pi%20Font%20Info.pdf |title=A Word About Symbol or “Pi” Fonts |publisher=[[Adobe Inc.]] |orig-date=2002-11-21<!--pdf creation date--> |access-date=2024-09-27}}</ref> is a [[computer font]] that has symbols and shapes located at the [[code point]]s normally designated for alphabetical or numeric characters. This practice was necessitated by the limited number of code points available in 20th century [[operating system]]s. Modern computer fonts containing dingbats are based on [[Unicode]] encoding, which has unique code points for dingbat glyphs.
Examples of characters included in Unicode ([[ITC Zapf Dingbats]] series 100 and others):

==Examples==
Examples of characters included in [[Unicode]] ([[ITC Zapf Dingbats]] series 100 and others):


{| class="Unicode" style="font-size:larger;"
{| class="Unicode" style="font-size:larger;"
Line 20: Line 25:
|[[❀]]||[[❁]]||❂||❃||[[❄]]||[[❅]]||[[❆]]||❇||❈||❉||❊||❋||●||❍||■||❏
|[[❀]]||[[❁]]||❂||❃||[[❄]]||[[❅]]||[[❆]]||❇||❈||❉||❊||❋||●||❍||■||❏
|-
|-
|[[☺]]||☻||[[♥]]||[[♦]]||[[♣]]||[[♠]]||•||◘||[[○]]||❐||❑||❒||[[▲]]||▼||[[◆]]||❖
|[[☺]]||[[☻]]||[[♥]]||[[♦]]||[[♣]]||[[♠]]||•||◘||[[○]]||❐||❑||❒||[[▲]]||▼||[[◆]]||❖
|-
|-
|[[◗]]||[[❘]]||❙||❚||[[❛]]||[[❜]]||[[❝]]||[[❞]]||&nbsp;
|[[◗]]||[[❘]]||❙||❚||[[❛]]||[[❜]]||[[❝]]||[[❞]]||&nbsp;
|}
|}
{{anchor|Unicode|Dingbats Unicode block}} {{anchor|Dingbats in Unicode}} <!-- Emoji article and Template:Unicode chart Dingbats both link to this section. Do not modify this section's anchor without updating those articles. -->


==Dingbats Unicode block==
The advent of [[Unicode]] and the [[universal character set]] it provides allowed commonly used dingbats to be given their own [[Code point|character codes]]. Although [[fonts]] claiming Unicode coverage will contain [[glyph]]s for dingbats ''in addition to'' alphabetic characters, fonts that have dingbats ''in place of'' alphabetic characters continue to be popular, primarily for ease of [[Unicode#Input methods|input]]. Such fonts are also sometimes known as ''pi fonts''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.adobe.com/type/browser/pdfs/PiFontInfo.pdf|title=Fonts by Adobe|work=adobe.com}}</ref>
{{Main|Dingbats (Unicode block)}}
[[Unicode]] provides [[code point]]s for many commonly used dingbats, as listed below. Prior to widespread adoption of Unicode in the early 2010s, "dingbat fonts" were created that allocated dingbat glyphs to codepoints in code positions otherwise allocated to "normal" character sets.


Some of the dingbat symbols have been used as [[signature mark]]s, used in [[bookbinding]] to order sections.

=={{anchor|Unicode}}Dingbats Unicode block==
<!-- Emoji article and Template:Unicode chart Dingbats both link to this section. Do not modify this section's anchor without updating those articles. -->
{{Infobox Unicode block
{{Infobox Unicode block
|blockname = Dingbats
|blockname = Dingbats
Line 42: Line 46:
|7_0 = 1
|7_0 = 1
|sources = ITC Zapf Dingbats series 100
|sources = ITC Zapf Dingbats series 100
|note = <ref name="UCD">{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org|title=Unicode character database|work=The Unicode Standard|accessdate=2016-07-09}}</ref><ref name="UEnumerated">{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html|title=Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard|work=The Unicode Standard|accessdate=2016-07-09}}</ref>
|note = <ref name="UCD">{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/ucd/|title=Unicode character database|work=The Unicode Standard|access-date=2023-07-26}}</ref><ref name="UEnumerated">{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html|title=Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard|work=The Unicode Standard|access-date=2023-07-26}}</ref>
}}
}}


The '''Dingbats''' block (U+2700–U+27BF) was added to the [[Unicode]] Standard in June 1993, with the release of version 1.1.
The '''Dingbats''' block (U+2700–U+27BF) (under the original block name "Zapf Dingbats", so named for type designer [[Hermann Zapf]]) was added to the [[Unicode]] Standard in October 1991, with the release of version 1.0.
This code block contains decorative character variants, and other marks of emphasis and non-textual symbolism. Most of its characters were taken from [[Zapf Dingbats]].
This code block contains decorative character variants, and other marks of emphasis and non-textual symbolism. Most of its characters were taken from [[Zapf Dingbats]]. The block name was changed from "Zapf Dingbats" to "Dingbats" in June 1993, with the release of 1.1.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/CodeCharts2.pdf |work=The Unicode Standard |version=version 1.0 |title=3.8: Block-by-Block Charts |publisher=[[Unicode Consortium]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.1.0/appE.pdf |work=The Unicode Standard |version=version 1.1 |title=Appendix E Block Names |publisher=[[Unicode Consortium]]}}</ref>

{{Unicode chart Dingbats}}

==Ornamental Dingbats Unicode block==
{{main|Ornamental Dingbats}}
{{Infobox Unicode block
|blockname = Ornamental Dingbats
|rangestart = 1F650
|rangeend = 1F67F
|script1 = [[Script (Unicode)#Special script property values|Common]]
|symbols = Leaf ornaments, ornamental punctuation
|7_0 = 48
|sources = dingbat fonts [[Webdings]], [[Wingdings]], and [[Wingdings#Wingdings 2|Wingdings 2]]
|note =<ref name="UCD" /><ref name="UEnumerated" />
}}

The '''Ornamental Dingbats''' block ({{nobr|U+1F650–U+1F67F}}) was added to the [[Unicode]] Standard in June 2014 with the release of version 7.0.
This code block contains ornamental leaves, punctuation, and ampersands, quilt squares, and checkerboard patterns.
It is a subset of dingbat fonts [[Webdings]], [[Wingdings]], and [[Wingdings#Wingdings 2|Wingdings 2]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4115.pdf|title=N4115: Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols|access-date=2 July 2014|archive-date=15 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4115.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{{Unicode chart Ornamental Dingbats}}


===Character table===
==Character table==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
|-
Line 527: Line 552:
|Medium left curly bracket ornament
|Medium left curly bracket ornament
|-
|-
|U+2776
|{{anchor|1}} U+2776
|❶
|❶
|Dingbat negative circled digit one
|Dingbat negative circled digit one
|-
|-
|U+2777
|{{anchor|2}} U+2777
|❷
|❷
|Dingbat negative circled digit two
|Dingbat negative circled digit two
|-
|-
|U+2778
|{{anchor|3}} U+2778
|❸
|❸
|Dingbat negative circled digit three
|Dingbat negative circled digit three
|-
|-
|U+2779
|{{anchor|4}} U+2779
|❹
|❹
|Dingbat negative circled digit four
|Dingbat negative circled digit four
|-
|-
|U+277A
|{{anchor|5}} U+277A
|❺
|❺
|Dingbat negative circled digit five
|Dingbat negative circled digit five
|-
|-
|U+277B
|{{anchor|6}} U+277B
|❻
|❻
|Dingbat negative circled digit six
|Dingbat negative circled digit six
|-
|-
|U+277C
|{{anchor|7}} U+277C
|❼
|❼
|Dingbat negative circled digit seven
|Dingbat negative circled digit seven
|-
|-
|U+277D
|{{anchor|8}} U+277D
|❽
|❽
|Dingbat negative circled digit eight
|Dingbat negative circled digit eight
|-
|-
|U+277E
|{{anchor|9}} U+277E
|❾
|❾
|Dingbat negative circled digit nine
|Dingbat negative circled digit nine
|-
|-
|U+277F
|{{anchor|10}} U+277F
|❿
|❿
|Dingbat negative circled digit ten
|Dingbat negative circled digit ten
|-
|-
|U+2780
|{{anchor|1+}} U+2780
|➀
|➀
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit one
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit one
|-
|-
|U+2781
|{{anchor|2+}} U+2781
|➁
|➁
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit two
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit two
|-
|-
|U+2782
|{{anchor|3+}} U+2782
|➂
|➂
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit three
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit three
|-
|-
|U+2783
|{{anchor|4+}} U+2783
|➃
|➃
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit four
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit four
|-
|-
|U+2784
|{{anchor|5+}} U+2784
|➄
|➄
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit five
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit five
|-
|-
|U+2785
|{{anchor|6+}} U+2785
|➅
|➅
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit six
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit six
|-
|-
|U+2786
|{{anchor|7+}} U+2786
|➆
|➆
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit seven
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit seven
|-
|-
|U+2787
|{{anchor|8+}} U+2787
|➇
|➇
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit eight
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit eight
|-
|-
|U+2788
|{{anchor|9+}} U+2788
|➈
|➈
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit nine
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit nine
|-
|-
|U+2789
|{{anchor|10+}} U+2789
|➉
|➉
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit ten
|Dingbat circled sans-serif digit ten
|-
|-
|U+278A
|{{anchor|1-}} U+278A
|➊
|➊
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit one
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit one
|-
|-
|U+278B
|{{anchor|2-}} U+278B
|➋
|➋
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit two
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit two
|-
|-
|U+278C
|{{anchor|3-}} U+278C
|➌
|➌
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit three
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit three
|-
|-
|U+278D
|{{anchor|4-}} U+278D
|➍
|➍
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit four
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit four
|-
|-
|U+278E
|{{anchor|5-}} U+278E
|➎
|➎
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit five
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit five
|-
|-
|U+278F
|{{anchor|6-}} U+278F
|➏
|➏
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit six
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit six
|-
|-
|U+2790
|{{anchor|7-}} U+2790
|➐
|➐
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit seven
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit seven
|-
|-
|U+2791
|{{anchor|8-}} U+2791
|➑
|➑
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit eight
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit eight
|-
|-
|U+2792
|{{anchor|9-}} U+2792
|➒
|➒
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit nine
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit nine
|-
|-
|U+2793
|{{anchor|10-}} U+2793
|➓
|➓
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit ten
|Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit ten
Line 824: Line 849:
|}
|}


===Compact table===
==Dingbat fonts==
* [[Webdings]], a TrueType dingbat font designed at [[Microsoft]] and published in 1997
{{Unicode chart Dingbats}}
* [[Wingdings]], a TrueType dingbat font assembled by Microsoft in 1990, using glyphs from Lucida Arrows, Lucida Icons, and Lucida Stars, three fonts they licensed from [[Charles Bigelow (type designer)|Charles Bigelow]] and [[Kris Holmes]]

* [[Zapf Dingbats]], a dingbat font designed by [[Hermann Zapf]] in 1978, and licensed by [[International Typeface Corporation]]
===Emoji===
The Dingbats block contains 33 [[emoji]]:
U+2702, U+2705, U+2708–U+270D, U+270F, U+2712, U+2714, U+2716, U+271D, U+2721, U+2728, U+2733–U+2734, U+2744, U+2747, U+274C, U+274E, U+2753–U+2755, U+2757, U+2763–U+2764, U+2795–U+2797, U+27A1, U+27B0 and U+27BF.<ref name="UTR51">{{cite web|url=https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/|title=UTR #51: Unicode Emoji|publisher=Unicode Consortium|date=2020-02-11}}</ref><ref name="EmojiData">{{cite web|url=https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/emoji-data.txt|title=UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51|publisher=Unicode Consortium|date=2020-01-28}}</ref>

The block has 40 [[Variant form (Unicode)|standardized variants]] defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the
following twenty base characters: U+2702, U+2708–U+2709, U+270C–U+270D, U+270F, U+2712, U+2714, U+2716, U+271D, U+2721, U+2733–U+2734, U+2744, U+2747, U+2753, U+2757, U+2763–U+2764 and U+27A1.
<ref>{{cite web|url=https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/emoji-variation-sequences.txt|title=UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences | publisher=The Unicode Consortium}}</ref>

{|border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" class="wikitable nounderlines" style="border-collapse:collapse;background:#FFFFFF;font-size:large;text-align:center"
|+style="font-size:small" | Emoji variation sequences
|-style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small"
| style="text-align:right" | U+ || 2702 || 2708 || 2709 || 270C || 270D || 270F || 2712 || 2714 || 2716 || 271D
|-style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small"
| style="text-align:left" | default&nbsp;presentation || text || text || text || text || text<ref>[[Google Chrome]] on Android uses the emoji presentation by default, despite this standard.</ref> || text || text || text || text || text
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small;text-align:left" | base&nbsp;code&nbsp;point || ✂ || ✈ || ✉ || ✌ || ✍ || ✏ || ✒ || ✔ || ✖ || ✝
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small;text-align:left" | base+VS15 (text) || ✂︎ || ✈︎ || ✉︎ || ✌︎ || ✍︎ || ✏︎ || ✒︎ || ✔︎ || ✖︎ || ✝︎
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small;text-align:left" | base+VS16 (emoji) || ✂️ || ✈️ || ✉️ || ✌️ || ✍️ || ✏️ || ✒️ || ✔️ || ✖️ || ✝️
|-
| colspan="11" |
|-style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small"
| style="text-align:right" | U+ || 2721 || 2733 || 2734 || 2744 || 2747 || 2753 || 2757 || 2763 || 2764 || 27A1
|-style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small"
| style="text-align:left" | default&nbsp;presentation || text || text || text || text || text || emoji || emoji || text || text || text
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small;text-align:left" | base&nbsp;code&nbsp;point || ✡ || ✳ || ✴ || ❄ || ❇ || ❓ || ❗ || ❣ || ❤ || ➡
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small;text-align:left" | base+VS15 (text) || ✡︎ || ✳︎ || ✴︎ || ❄︎ || ❇︎ || ❓︎ || ❗︎ || ❣︎ || ❤︎ || ➡︎
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small;text-align:left" | base+VS16 (emoji) || ✡️ || ✳️ || ✴️ || ❄️ || ❇️ || ❓️ || ❗️ || ❣️ || ❤️ || ➡️
|}

===={{anchor|Skin tones}}Emoji modifiers====
{{main|Emoji modifiers}}
The Dingbats block has four emoji that represent hands.
They can be modified using U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF to provide for a range of [[human skin color]] using the [[Fitzpatrick scale]]:<ref name="EmojiData" />
{|border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" class="wikitable nounderlines" style="border-collapse:collapse;background:#FFFFFF;font-size:large;text-align:center"
|+style="font-size:small" | Human emoji
|-style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small"
| style="text-align:right" | U+ || 270A || 270B || 270C || 270D
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small;text-align:left" | emoji || ✊ || ✋ || ✌️ || ✍️
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small;text-align:left" | FITZ-1-2 || ✊🏻 || ✋🏻 || ✌️🏻 || ✍️🏻
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small;text-align:left" | FITZ-3 || ✊🏼 || ✋🏼 || ✌️🏼 || ✍️🏼
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small;text-align:left" | FITZ-4 || ✊🏽 || ✋🏽 || ✌️🏽 || ✍️🏽
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small;text-align:left" | FITZ-5 || ✊🏾 || ✋🏾 || ✌️🏾 || ✍️🏾
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small;text-align:left" | FITZ-6 || ✊🏿 || ✋🏿 || ✌️🏿 || ✍️🏿
|}

Additional human emoji can be found in other Unicode blocks: [[Emoticons (Unicode block)#Skin tones|Emoticons]], [[Miscellaneous Symbols#Skin tones|Miscellaneous Symbols]], [[Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs#Skin tones|Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs]], [[Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs#Skin tones|Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs]] and [[Transport and Map Symbols#Skin tones|Transport and Map Symbols]].

===History===
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Dingbats block:

{| class="wikitable collapsible"
|-
! [[Unicode#Versions|Version]] !! {{nobr|Final code points<ref group=lower-alpha name=final/>}} !! Count !! [[International Committee for Information Technology Standards|L2]]&nbsp;ID !! [[ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2|WG2]]&nbsp;ID !! Document
|-
| rowspan="4" | 1.0.0 || rowspan="4" width="180" | U+2701..2704, 2706..2709, 270C..2727, 2729..274B, 274D, 274F..2752, 2756, 2758..275E, 2761..2767, 2776..2794, 2798..27AF, 27B1..27BE || rowspan="4" | 160 || || || (to be determined)
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11438-emoji-var.pdf L2/11-438]<ref group=lower-alpha name=also10458/><ref group=lower-alpha name=emojidocs/>}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4182.pdf N4182] || {{Citation|title=Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)|date=2011-12-22|first=Peter|last=Edberg}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15050r-emoji-var-sel.pdf L2/15-050R]<ref group=lower-alpha name=also13207/><ref group=lower-alpha name=emojidocs/>}} || || {{Citation|title=Additional variation selectors for emoji|date=2015-01-29|first1=Mark|last1=Davis|authorlink1=Mark Davis (Unicode)|display-authors=etal}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15301-emoji-sequences.pdf L2/15-301]<ref group=lower-alpha name=also15198/><ref group=lower-alpha name=emojidocs/>}} || || {{Citation|title=A proposal for 278 standardized variation sequences for emoji|date=2015-11-01|first=Roozbeh|last=Pournader}}
|-
| rowspan="5" | 3.2 || rowspan="5" width="180" | U+2768..2775 || rowspan="5" | 14 || {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2000/00420-DingbatsProposal.pdf L2/00-420]}} || || {{Citation|title=Proposal for additional 14 Dingbats|date=2000-11-21|first=Sairus|last=Patel}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2000/00436-Dingbats.pdf L2/00-436]}} || || {{Citation|title=Proposal to complete the Dingbats block in Unicode/ISO-IEC 10646|date=2000-12-18|first=Sairus|last=Patel}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01087-Dingbats.pdf L2/01-087]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2321.pdf N2321] || {{Citation|title=Proposal to complete the Dingbats block in Unicode/ISO-IEC 10646|date=2001-01-31|first=Sairus|last=Patel}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01012.htm L2/01-012R]}} || || {{Citation|title=Minutes UTC #86 in Mountain View, Jan 2001|date=2001-05-21|first=Lisa|last=Moore|section=Dingbats}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01344-n2353.pdf L2/01-344]}} || {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2353.pdf N2353 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2353.doc doc]) || {{Citation|title=Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001|date=2001-09-09|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|section=7.8 Proposal to complete the Dingbats block in 10646}}
|-
| rowspan="17" | 5.2 || rowspan="17" width="180" | U+2757 || rowspan="17" | 1 || || {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3353.pdf N3353 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3353.doc doc]) || {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27|date=2007-10-10|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|section=M51.32}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07259-japanese-tv.pdf L2/07-259]}} || || {{Citation|title=Japanese TV Symbols|date=2007-08-02|first=Michel|last=Suignard}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07391-n3341.pdf L2/07-391]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3341.pdf N3341] || {{Citation|title=Japanese TV Symbols|date=2007-09-18|first=Michel|last=Suignard}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08077r2-japanese-tv.pdf L2/08-077R2]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3397.pdf N3397] || {{Citation|title=Japanese TV symbols|date=2008-03-11|first=Michel|last=Suignard}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08128-Iancu-notes-2008-03-22.txt L2/08-128]}} || || {{Citation|title=Names and allocation of some Japanese TV symbols from N3397|date=2008-03-22|first=Laurențiu|last=Iancu}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08158-tv-symbol-cmt.txt L2/08-158]}} || || {{Citation|title=Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols"|date=2008-04-16|first=Karl|last=Pentzlin}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08188-n3468.pdf L2/08-188]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3468.pdf N3468] || {{Citation|title=Collected comments on Japanese TV Symbols (WG2 N3397)|date=2008-04-22|first=Masahiro|last=Sekiguchi}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08077r3-n3469.pdf L2/08-077R3]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3469.pdf N3469] || {{Citation|title=Japanese TV symbols|date=2008-04-23|first=Michel|last=Suignard}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08215-tv-sym.html L2/08-215]}} || || {{Citation|title=Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols"|date=2008-05-07|first=Karl|last=Pentzlin}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08289-tv-sym.pdf L2/08-289]}} || || {{Citation|title=Proposal to rename and reassign some Japanese TV Symbols from L2/08-077R3|date=2008-08-05|first=Karl|last=Pentzlin}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08292-symbols.pdf L2/08-292]}} || || {{Citation|title=Improvement suggestions for n3469|date=2008-08-06|first=Andreas|last=Stötzner}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08307-jtv-feedback.html L2/08-307]}} || || {{Citation|title=Feedback on the Japanese TV Symbols Proposal (L2/08-077R3)|date=2008-08-08|first=Markus|last=Scherer}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08318-n3453.pdf L2/08-318]}} || {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3453.pdf N3453 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3453.doc doc]) || {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52|date=2008-08-13|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|section=M52.14}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08161.htm L2/08-161R2]}} || || {{Citation|title=UTC #115 Minutes|date=2008-11-05|first=Lisa|last=Moore|section=Consensus 115-C17|quote=Approve 186 Japanese TV symbols for encoding in a future version of the standard.}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09064-arib-names.txt L2/09-064]}} || || {{Citation|title=Request to change some ARIB/AMD6 character names and a code point|date=2009-01-29|first=Markus|last=Scherer}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09234-n3603-wg2-54-min.pdf L2/09-234]}} || {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3603.pdf N3603 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3603.doc doc]) || {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54|date=2009-07-08|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|section=M54.03b}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11438-emoji-var.pdf L2/11-438]<ref group=lower-alpha name=also10458/><ref group=lower-alpha name=emojidocs/>}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4182.pdf N4182] || {{Citation|title=Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)|date=2011-12-22|first=Peter|last=Edberg}}
|-
| rowspan="16" | 6.0 || rowspan="13" width="180" | U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF<ref group=lower-alpha name=emojidocs/> || rowspan="13" | 14 || {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09025r2-emoji.pdf L2/09-025R2]}} || {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3582.pdf N3582]<ref group=lower-alpha name=n3621/>}} || {{Citation|title=Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols|date=2009-03-05|first1=Markus|last1=Scherer|first2=Mark|last2=Davis|first3=Kat|last3=Momoi|first4=Darick|last4=Tong|first5=Yasuo|last5=Kida|first6=Peter|last6=Edberg}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09026r-emoji-proposed.pdf L2/09-026R]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3583.pdf N3583] || {{Citation|title=Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding|date=2009-02-06|first1=Markus|last1=Scherer|first2=Mark|last2=Davis|first3=Kat|last3=Momoi|first4=Darick|last4=Tong|first5=Yasuo|last5=Kida|first6=Peter|last6=Edberg}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09027r2-emoji-backgrnd.pdf L2/09-027R2]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3681.pdf N3681] || {{Citation|title=Emoji Symbols: Background Data|date=2009-09-17|first=Markus|last=Scherer}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09114-n3607-emoji.pdf L2/09-114]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3607.pdf N3607] || {{Citation|title=Towards an encoding of symbol characters used as emoji|date=2009-04-06}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09412-n3722.pdf L2/09-412]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3722.pdf N3722] || {{Citation|title=Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4078 (PDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)|date=2009-10-26|first=Michel|last=Suignard|section=Ireland T2}}
|-
| || {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3703.pdf N3703 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3703.doc doc]) || {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30|date=2010-04-13|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|section=M55.9h}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09335.htm L2/09-335R]}} || || {{Citation|title=UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes|date=2009-11-10|first=Lisa|last=Moore|section=Consensus 121-C10}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10088-n3776.pdf L2/10-088]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3776.pdf N3776] || {{Citation|title=DoCoMo Input on Emoji|date=2010-03-08}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10089-n3777.pdf L2/10-089]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3777.pdf N3777] || {{Citation|title=KDDI Input on Emoji|date=2010-03-08}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10137-n3828.pdf L2/10-137]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3828.pdf N3828] || {{Citation|title=Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4123 (FPDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)|date=2010-04-22|first=Michel|last=Suignard|section=JP.G11b, JP.T5, JP.T12}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10132-emojidata.pdf L2/10-132]}} || || {{Citation|title=Emoji Symbols: Background Data|date=2010-04-27|first1=Markus|last1=Scherer|first2=Mark|last2=Davis|first3=Kat|last3=Momoi|first4=Darick|last4=Tong|first5=Yasuo|last5=Kida|first6=Peter|last6=Edberg}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10138-n3829.pdf L2/10-138]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3829.pdf N3829] || {{Citation|title=Emoji Ad-Hoc Meeting Report|date=2010-04-27|first1=Peter|last1=Constable|display-authors=etal|section=10}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16361-vs-for-96-symbols.pdf L2/16-361]}} || || {{Citation|title=Add text and emoji standardized variation sequences for 96 symbols|date=2016-11-07|first1=Roozbeh|last1=Pournader|first2=Doug|last2=Felt}}
|-
| rowspan="3" width="180" | U+275F..2760 || rowspan="3" | 2 || {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09021-heavy-quotes.pdf L2/09-021]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3565.pdf N3565] || {{Citation|title=Proposal to encode two heavy low quotes for German in the UCS Dingbats block|date=2009-01-15}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09003.htm L2/09-003R]}} || || {{Citation|title=UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes|date=2009-02-12|first=Lisa|last=Moore|section=D.7}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09234-n3603-wg2-54-min.pdf L2/09-234]}} || {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3603.pdf N3603 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3603.doc doc]) || {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54|date=2009-07-08|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|section=M54.13b}}
|-
| rowspan="10" | 7.0 || rowspan="10" width="180" | U+2700 || rowspan="10" | 1 || {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11052r-wingding.pdf L2/11-052R]}} || || {{Citation|title=Wingdings and Webdings symbols - Preliminary study|date=2011-02-15|first=Michel|last=Suignard}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11149-webdings.pdf L2/11-149]}} || || {{Citation|title=Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings symbols|date=2011-05-09|first=Michel|last=Suignard}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11196-n4022-wingdings.pdf L2/11-196]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4022.pdf N4022] || {{Citation|title=Revised Wingdings proposal|date=2011-05-21|first=Michel|last=Suignard}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11247-n4115-wingdings.pdf L2/11-247]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4115.pdf N4115] || {{Citation|title=Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols|date=2011-06-08|first=Michel|last=Suignard}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11344-wingdings.pdf L2/11-344]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4143.pdf N4143] || {{Citation|title=Updated proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols|date=2011-09-28|first=Michel|last=Suignard}}
|-
| || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4103.pdf N4103] || {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58|date=2012-01-03|section=10.2.1 Wingdings/Webdings additions}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12130-n4239.pdf L2/12-130]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4239.pdf N4239] || {{Citation|title=Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4201 (PDAM text for Amendment 1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 3rd edition)|date=2012-05-08|first=Michel|last=Suignard|section=E4.}}
|-
| || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4363.pdf N4363] || {{Citation|title=Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols|date=2012-10-13|first=Michel|last=Suignard}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12368-n4384.pdf L2/12-368]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4384.pdf N4384] || {{Citation|title=Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols|date=2012-11-06|first=Michel|last=Suignard}}
|-
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12086-n4223.pdf L2/12-086]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4223.pdf N4223] || {{Citation|title=Requests regarding the Wingdings/Webdings characters in ISO/IEC 10646 PDAM 1.2|date=2012-12-27}}
|- class="sortbottom"
| colspan="6" | {{reflist|group=lower-alpha|refs=
<ref name=final>Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names</ref>
<ref name=also10458>See also [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10458-emoji-var.pdf L2/10-458], [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11414-emoji-var-seq.pdf L2/11-414], [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11415-unified-emoji-ref.pdf L2/11-415], and [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11429-emoji-var-seq-list.pdf L2/11-429]</ref>
<ref name=emojidocs>Refer to the [[Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs#History|history section]] of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents</ref>
<ref name=also13207>See also [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13207-emoji.html L2/13-207], [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14054-emoji-style.pdf L2/14-054], [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14063-emoji-sheet.pdf L2/14-063], [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15051-A-text-vs.txt L2/15-051A], [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15051-B-text-style.html L2/15-051B]</ref>
<ref name=also15198>See also [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15198-varseq-text-emoji.pdf L2/15-198] and [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15275-more-var-seqs-for-text-vs-emoji.pdf L2/15-275]</ref>
<ref name=n3621>Japanese translation of N3582 is available as [http://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3621.pdf N3621]</ref>}}
|}

==Ornamental Dingbats Unicode block==
{{main|Ornamental Dingbats}}
{{Infobox Unicode block
|blockname = Ornamental Dingbats
|rangestart = 1F650
|rangeend = 1F67F
|script1 = [[Script (Unicode)#Special script property values|Common]]
|symbols = Leaf ornaments, ornamental punctuation
|7_0 = 48
|sources = dingbat fonts [[Webdings]], [[Wingdings]], and [[Wingdings#Wingdings 2|Wingdings 2]]
|note = <ref name="UCD" /><ref name="UEnumerated" />
}}

The '''Ornamental Dingbats''' block ({{nobr|U+1F650–U+1F67F}}) was added to the [[Unicode]] Standard in June 2014 with the release of version 7.0.
This code block contains ornamental leaves, punctuation, and ampersands, quilt squares, and checkerboard patterns.
It is a subset of dingbat fonts [[Webdings]], [[Wingdings]], and [[Wingdings#Wingdings 2|Wingdings 2]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4115.pdf|title=N4115: Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols|accessdate=2 July 2014}}</ref>

{{Unicode chart Ornamental Dingbats}}


==See also==
==See also==
* [[Arrow (symbol)#UnicodeBlocks|Arrows in Unicode blocks]]
* [[Arrow (symbol)#UnicodeBlocks|Arrows in Unicode blocks]]
* [[Asterism (typography)]], a triangle of asterisks
* [[Fleuron (typography)]], known as a class of horticultural dingbats
* [[Fleuron (typography)]], known as a class of horticultural dingbats
* [[Punctuation]]
* [[Punctuation]]
* [[Text semigraphics]], a method for emulating [[raster graphics]] using [[text mode]] video hardware
* [[Text semigraphics]], a method for emulating [[raster graphics]] using [[text mode]] video hardware
* [[Unicode symbols]]
* [[Unicode symbols]]

==Dingbat fonts==
* [[Webdings]], a TrueType dingbat font designed at [[Microsoft]] and published in 1997
* [[Wingdings]], a TrueType dingbat font assembled by Microsoft in 1990, using glyphs from Lucida Arrows, Lucida Icons, and Lucida Stars, three fonts they licensed from [[Charles Bigelow (type designer)|Charles Bigelow]] and [[Kris Holmes]]
* [[Zapf Dingbats]], a dingbat font designed by [[Hermann Zapf]] in 1978, and licensed by [[International Typeface Corporation]]


==References==
==References==
Line 1,047: Line 873:


[[Category:Typography]]
[[Category:Typography]]
[[Category:Unicode blocks]]
[[Category:Emoji]]
[[Category:Emoji]]

Latest revision as of 21:57, 27 September 2024

This article is about the typesetter's ornament. For other uses, see Dingbat (disambiguation).
This article contains Unicode emoticons or emojis. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of the intended characters.
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 or pi font[1] 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.

Examples

[edit]

Examples of characters included in Unicode (ITC Zapf Dingbats series 100 and others):

  ✁ ✂ ✃ ✄ ✅ ✆ ✇ ✈ ✉ ☛ ☞ ✌ ✍ ✎ ✏
✐ ✑ ✒ ✓ ✔ ✕ ✖ ✗ ✘ ✙ ✚ ✛ ✜ ✝ ✞ ✟
✠ ✡ ✢ ✣ ✤ ✥ ✦ ✧ ★ ✩ ✪ ✫ ✬ ✭ ✮ ✯
✰ ✱ ✲ ✳ ✴ ✵ ✶ ✷ ✸ ✹ ✺ ✻ ✼ ✽ ✾ ✿
❀ ❁ ❂ ❃ ❄ ❅ ❆ ❇ ❈ ❉ ❊ ❋ ● ❍ ■ ❏
☺ ☻ ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ • ◘ ○ ❐ ❑ ❒ ▲ ▼ ◆ ❖
◗ ❘ ❙ ❚ ❛ ❜ ❝ ❞  

Dingbats Unicode block

[edit]
Main article: Dingbats (Unicode block)

Unicode provides code points for many commonly used dingbats, as listed below. Prior to widespread adoption of Unicode in the early 2010s, "dingbat fonts" were created that allocated dingbat glyphs to codepoints in code positions otherwise allocated to "normal" character sets.

Dingbats
RangeU+2700..U+27BF
(192 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCommon
Assigned192 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Source standardsITC Zapf Dingbats series 100
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)160 (+160)
3.2 (2002)174 (+14)
5.2 (2009)175 (+1)
6.0 (2010)191 (+16)
7.0 (2014)192 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [2][3]

The Dingbats block (U+2700–U+27BF) (under the original block name "Zapf Dingbats", so named for type designer Hermann Zapf) was added to the Unicode Standard in October 1991, with the release of version 1.0. This code block contains decorative character variants, and other marks of emphasis and non-textual symbolism. Most of its characters were taken from Zapf Dingbats. The block name was changed from "Zapf Dingbats" to "Dingbats" in June 1993, with the release of 1.1.[4][5]

Dingbats[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+270x ✀ ✁ ✂ ✃ ✄ ✅ ✆ ✇ ✈ ✉ ✊ ✋ ✌ ✍ ✎ ✏
U+271x ✐ ✑ ✒ ✓ ✔ ✕ ✖ ✗ ✘ ✙ ✚ ✛ ✜ ✝ ✞ ✟
U+272x ✠ ✡ ✢ ✣ ✤ ✥ ✦ ✧ ✨ ✩ ✪ ✫ ✬ ✭ ✮ ✯
U+273x ✰ ✱ ✲ ✳ ✴ ✵ ✶ ✷ ✸ ✹ ✺ ✻ ✼ ✽ ✾ ✿
U+274x ❀ ❁ ❂ ❃ ❄ ❅ ❆ ❇ ❈ ❉ ❊ ❋ ❌ ❍ ❎ ❏
U+275x ❐ ❑ ❒ ❓ ❔ ❕ ❖ ❗ ❘ ❙ ❚ ❛ ❜ ❝ ❞ ❟
U+276x ❠ ❡ ❢ ❣ ❤ ❥ ❦ ❧ ❨ ❩ ❪ ❫ ❬ ❭ ❮ ❯
U+277x ❰ ❱ ❲ ❳ ❴ ❵ ❶ ❷ ❸ ❹ ❺ ❻ ❼ ❽ ❾ ❿
U+278x ➀ ➁ ➂ ➃ ➄ ➅ ➆ ➇ ➈ ➉ ➊ ➋ ➌ ➍ ➎ ➏
U+279x ➐ ➑ ➒ ➓ ➔ ➕ ➖ ➗ ➘ ➙ ➚ ➛ ➜ ➝ ➞ ➟
U+27Ax ➠ ➡ ➢ ➣ ➤ ➥ ➦ ➧ ➨ ➩ ➪ ➫ ➬ ➭ ➮ ➯
U+27Bx ➰ ➱ ➲ ➳ ➴ ➵ ➶ ➷ ➸ ➹ ➺ ➻ ➼ ➽ ➾ ➿
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0

Ornamental Dingbats Unicode block

[edit]
Main article: Ornamental Dingbats
Ornamental Dingbats
RangeU+1F650..U+1F67F
(48 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsLeaf ornaments, ornamental punctuation
Assigned48 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Source standardsdingbat fonts Webdings, Wingdings, and Wingdings 2
Unicode version history
7.0 (2014)48 (+48)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [2][3]

The Ornamental Dingbats block (U+1F650–U+1F67F) was added to the Unicode Standard in June 2014 with the release of version 7.0. This code block contains ornamental leaves, punctuation, and ampersands, quilt squares, and checkerboard patterns. It is a subset of dingbat fonts Webdings, Wingdings, and Wingdings 2.[6]

Ornamental Dingbats[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1F65x 🙐 🙑 🙒 🙓 🙔 🙕 🙖 🙗 🙘 🙙 🙚 🙛 🙜 🙝 🙞 🙟
U+1F66x 🙠 🙡 🙢 🙣 🙤 🙥 🙦 🙧 🙨 🙩 🙪 🙫 🙬 🙭 🙮 🙯
U+1F67x 🙰 🙱 🙲 🙳 🙴 🙵 🙶 🙷 🙸 🙹 🙺 🙻 🙼 🙽 🙾 🙿
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0

Character table

[edit]
Code Result Description
U+2700 ✀ Black safety scissors
U+2701 ✁ Upper blade scissors
U+2702 ✂ Black scissors
U+2703 ✃ Lower blade scissors
U+2704 ✄ White scissors
U+2705 ✅ White heavy check mark
U+2706 ✆ Telephone location sign
U+2707 ✇ Tape drive
U+2708 ✈ Airplane
U+2709 ✉ Envelope
U+270A ✊ Raised fist
U+270B ✋ Raised hand
U+270C ✌ Victory hand
U+270D ✍ Writing hand
U+270E ✎ Lower right pencil
U+270F ✏ Pencil
U+2710 ✐ Upper right pencil
U+2711 ✑ White nib
U+2712 ✒ Black nib
U+2713 ✓ Check mark
U+2714 ✔ Heavy check mark
U+2715 ✕ Multiplication X
U+2716 ✖ Heavy multiplication X
U+2717 ✗ Ballot X
U+2718 ✘ Heavy ballot X
U+2719 ✙ Outlined Greek cross
U+271A ✚ Heavy Greek cross
U+271B ✛ Open center cross
U+271C ✜ Heavy open center cross
U+271D ✝ Latin cross
U+271E ✞ Shadowed white Latin cross
U+271F ✟ Outlined Latin cross
U+2720 ✠ Maltese cross
U+2721 ✡ Star of David
U+2722 ✢ Four teardrop-spoked asterisk
U+2723 ✣ Four balloon-spoked asterisk
U+2724 ✤ Heavy four balloon-spoked asterisk
U+2725 ✥ Four club-spoked asterisk
U+2726 ✦ Black four-pointed star
U+2727 ✧ White four-pointed star
U+2728 ✨ Sparkles
U+2729 ✩ Stress outlined white star
U+272A ✪ Circled white star
U+272B ✫ Open center black star
U+272C ✬ Black center white star
U+272D ✭ Outlined black star
U+272E ✮ Heavy outlined black star
U+272F ✯ Pinwheel star
U+2730 ✰ Shadowed white star
U+2731 ✱ Heavy asterisk
U+2732 ✲ Open center asterisk
U+2733 ✳ Eight spoked asterisk
U+2734 ✴ Eight pointed black star
U+2735 ✵ Eight pointed pinwheel star
U+2736 ✶ Six pointed black star
U+2737 ✷ Eight pointed rectilinear black star
U+2738 ✸ Heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star
U+2739 ✹ Twelve pointed black star
U+273A ✺ Sixteen pointed asterisk
U+273B ✻ Teardrop spoked asterisk
U+273C ✼ Open center teardrop spoked asterisk
U+273D ✽ Heavy teardrop spoked asterisk
U+273E ✾ Six petalled black and white florette
U+273F ✿ Black florette
U+2740 ❀ White florette
U+2741 ❁ Eight petalled outlined black florette
U+2742 ❂ Circled open center eight pointed star
U+2743 ❃ Heavy teardrop spoked pinwheel asterisk
U+2744 ❄ Snowflake
U+2745 ❅ Tight trifoliate snowflake
U+2746 ❆ Heavy chevron snowflake
U+2747 ❇ Sparkle
U+2748 ❈ Heavy sparkle
U+2749 ❉ Balloon spoked asterisk
U+274A ❊ Eight teardrop spoked propeller asterisk
U+274B ❋ Heavy eight teardrop spoked propeller asterisk
U+274C ❌ Cross mark
U+274D ❍ Shadowed white circle
U+274E ❎ Negative squared cross mark
U+274F ❏ Lower right drop-shadowed white square
U+2750 ❐ Upper right drop-shadowed white square
U+2751 ❑ Lower right shadowed white square
U+2752 ❒ Upper right shadowed white square
U+2753 ❓ Black question mark ornament
U+2754 ❔ White question mark ornament
U+2755 ❕ White exclamation mark ornament
U+2756 ❖ Black diamond minus white X
U+2757 ❗ Heavy exclamation mark symbol
U+2758 ❘ Light vertical bar
U+2759 ❙ Medium vertical bar
U+275A ❚ Heavy vertical bar
U+275B ❛ Heavy single turned comma quotation mark ornament
U+275C ❜ Heavy single comma quotation mark ornament
U+275D ❝ Heavy double turned comma quotation mark ornament
U+275E ❞ Heavy double comma quotation mark ornament
U+275F ❜ Heavy low single comma quotation mark ornament
U+2760 ❞ Heavy low double comma quotation mark ornament
U+2761 ❡ Curved stem paragraph sign ornament
U+2762 ❢ Heavy exclamation mark ornament
U+2763 ❣ Heavy heart exclamation mark ornament
U+2764 ❤ Heavy black heart
U+2765 ❥ Rotated heavy black heart bullet
U+2766 ❦ Floral heart
U+2767 ❧ Rotated floral heart bullet
U+2768 ❨ Medium left parenthesis ornament
U+2769 ❩ Medium right parenthesis ornament
U+276A ❪ Medium flattened left parenthesis ornament
U+276B ❫ Medium flattened right parenthesis ornament
U+276C ❬ Medium left-pointing angle bracket ornament
U+276D ❭ Medium right-pointing angle bracket ornament
U+276E ❮ Heavy left-pointing angle quotation mark ornament
U+276F ❯ Heavy right-pointing angle quotation mark ornament
U+2770 ❰ Heavy left-pointing angle bracket ornament
U+2771 ❱ Heavy right-pointing angle bracket ornament
U+2772 ❲ Light left tortoise shell bracket ornament
U+2773 ❳ Light right tortoise shell bracket ornament
U+2774 ❴ Medium left curly bracket ornament
U+2775 ❵ Medium left curly bracket ornament
U+2776 ❶ Dingbat negative circled digit one
U+2777 ❷ Dingbat negative circled digit two
U+2778 ❸ Dingbat negative circled digit three
U+2779 ❹ Dingbat negative circled digit four
U+277A ❺ Dingbat negative circled digit five
U+277B ❻ Dingbat negative circled digit six
U+277C ❼ Dingbat negative circled digit seven
U+277D ❽ Dingbat negative circled digit eight
U+277E ❾ Dingbat negative circled digit nine
U+277F ❿ Dingbat negative circled digit ten
U+2780 ➀ Dingbat circled sans-serif digit one
U+2781 ➁ Dingbat circled sans-serif digit two
U+2782 ➂ Dingbat circled sans-serif digit three
U+2783 ➃ Dingbat circled sans-serif digit four
U+2784 ➄ Dingbat circled sans-serif digit five
U+2785 ➅ Dingbat circled sans-serif digit six
U+2786 ➆ Dingbat circled sans-serif digit seven
U+2787 ➇ Dingbat circled sans-serif digit eight
U+2788 ➈ Dingbat circled sans-serif digit nine
U+2789 ➉ Dingbat circled sans-serif digit ten
U+278A ➊ Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit one
U+278B ➋ Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit two
U+278C ➌ Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit three
U+278D ➍ Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit four
U+278E ➎ Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit five
U+278F ➏ Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit six
U+2790 ➐ Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit seven
U+2791 ➑ Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit eight
U+2792 ➒ Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit nine
U+2793 ➓ Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit ten
U+2794 ➔ Heavy wide-headed rightward arrow
U+2795 ➕ Heavy plus sign
U+2796 ➖ Heavy minus sign
U+2797 ➗ Heavy division sign
U+2798 ➘ Heavy south east arrow
U+2799 ➙ Heavy rightward arrow
U+279A ➚ Heavy north east arrow
U+279B ➛ Drafting point rightward arrow
U+279C ➜ Heavy round-tipped rightward arrow
U+279D ➝ Triangle-headed rightward arrow
U+279E ➞ Heavy triangle-headed rightward arrow
U+279F ➟ Dashed triangle-headed rightward arrow
U+27A0 ➠ Heavy dashed triangle-headed rightward arrow
U+27A1 ➡ Black rightward arrow
U+27A2 ➢ Three-D top-lighted rightward arrowhead
U+27A3 ➣ Three-D bottom-lighted rightward arrowhead
U+27A4 ➤ Black rightward arrowhead
U+27A5 ➥ Heavy black curved downward and rightward arrow
U+27A6 ➦ Heavy black curved upward and rightward arrow
U+27A7 ➧ Squat black rightward arrow
U+27A8 ➨ Heavy concave-pointed black rightward arrow
U+27A9 ➩ Right-shaded white rightward arrow
U+27AA ➪ Left-shaded white rightward arrow
U+27AB ➫ Back-tilted shadowed white rightward arrow
U+27AC ➬ Front-tilted shadowed white rightward arrow
U+27AD ➭ Heavy lower right-shadowed white rightward arrow
U+27AE ➮ Heavy upper right-shadowed white rightward arrow
U+27AF ➯ Notched lower right-shadowed white rightward arrow
U+27B0 ➰ Curly loop
U+27B1 ➱ Notched upper right-shadowed white rightward arrow
U+27B2 ➲ Circled heavy white rightward arrow
U+27B3 ➳ White-feathered rightward arrow
U+27B4 ➴ Black-feathered south east arrow
U+27B5 ➵ Black-feathered rightward arrow
U+27B6 ➶ Black-feathered north east arrow
U+27B7 ➷ Heavy black-feathered south east arrow
U+27B8 ➸ Heavy black-feathered rightward arrow
U+27B9 ➹ Heavy black-feathered north east arrow
U+27BA ➺ Teardrop-barbed rightward arrow
U+27BB ➻ Heavy teardrop-shanked rightward arrow
U+27BC ➼ Wedge-tailed rightward arrow
U+27BD ➽ Heavy wedge-tailed rightward arrow
U+27BE ➾ Open-outlined rightward arrow
U+27BF ➿ Double curly loop

Dingbat fonts

[edit]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "A Word About Symbol or "Pi" Fonts" (PDF). Adobe Inc. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  4. ^ "3.8: Block-by-Block Charts" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. version 1.0. Unicode Consortium.
  5. ^ "Appendix E Block Names" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. version 1.1. Unicode Consortium.
  6. ^ "N4115: Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 February 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Typographic ornaments.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Dingbat&oldid=1248140916"