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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, used in bookbinding to order sections. In the computer industry, a Dingbat font was a computer font that has symbols and shapes that reused the code points designated for alphabetical or numeric characters. This practice was necessitated by the limited number of code points available in 20th century operating systems. Most modern fonts are based on Unicode, which has unique code points for dingbat glyphs.

typography glyph unicode

References

  1. "3.8: Block-by-Block Charts". The Unicode Standard. Unicode Consortium. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/CodeCharts2.pdf. 
  2. "Appendix E Block Names". The Unicode Standard. Unicode Consortium. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.1.0/appE.pdf. 
  3. "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 11 February 2020. https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/. 
  4. "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2021-08-26. https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-data.txt. 
  5. "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium. https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. 
  6. Google Chrome on Android uses the emoji presentation by default, despite this standard.
  7. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  8. See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429 https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10458-emoji-var.pdf
  9. Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents
  10. See also L2/15-198 and L2/15-275 https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15198-varseq-text-emoji.pdf
  11. Japanese translation of N3582 is available as N3621 http://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3621.pdf
  12. "N4115: Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols". http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4115.pdf. 
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