Wingding Fonts


Some fonts are "wing dings", also known as "dingbats", which are little pictures instead of actual alphabets.   A font must be installed on a computer in order to use it.

Here is the "alphabet" typed out with a wing ding font called "wing dings":

This font is called "ionic symbols":

This font is called "sugar coma":

I have seen a wing ding font called "animals" where each keyboard key produced a little animal, and also a dinosaur font which produced various dinosaurs.  However, these fonts are not installed on my computer, so I cannot show them to you. Your computer may have different wing dings fonts, but they are easy to insert into your documents.  Here's how:

In the formatting toolbar, choose a wing ding font, and type the alphabet to see which letter produces which picture.  Choose a picture by typing the alphabet letter which produces it.  You can change the size of the wing ding by highlighting it and choosing a size from the formatting toolbar. 

You can download different wingding fonts from the internet.  Most fonts are downloaded as a zip file.  If you put the unzipped file into your Windows/fonts folder, they will automatically be installed on your computer the next time you reboot.  One place for high-quality freeware and shareware Truetype fonts, dingbats and clip-art fonts is Kemosabe's Font Source.