Oops! Look ma, no fonts!

Steve Rickaby srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk
Tue Feb 20 08:12:04 PST 2007


At 07:41 -0800 20/2/07, Steve Cavanaugh wrote:

>Wingdings 3 apparently comes with Windows XP and is almost exclusively
>arrows.

Windings of one sort or another have come with Windows for a long time, I think, but none of them are the same as, comparable with, or versions of, Zapf Dingbats, which is a completely different symbol font, work of Hermann Zapf, one of the 20th C's more eminent font designers.

<http://www.linotype.com/645/hermannzapf.html>

Wingdings was probably designed in a closet at Redmond.

-- 
Steve



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