Ornamental Dingbats is a
Unicode block containing
ornamental leaves,
punctuation, and
ampersand
The ampersand, also known as the and sign, is the logogram , representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the letters ''et''—Latin for "and".
Etymology
Traditionally in English, when spelling aloud, any letter that ...
s,
quilt squares, and
checkerboard patterns.
It is a subset of dingbat fonts
Webdings,
Wingdings, and
Wingdings 2
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 from Lucida Icons, Arrows, and Stars licensed from Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. Cert ...
.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Ornamental Dingbats block:
See also
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Dingbats (Unicode block)
References
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Unicode blocks