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Wingdings are a series of dingbat fonts which 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.〔(Notes on Lucida designs(by Charles Bigelow, November 2005) )〕 Certain versions of the font's copyright string include an attribution to Type Solutions, Inc., the maker of a tool used to hint the font. None of the fonts were mapped to Unicode at the time; however, Unicode approved the addition of many symbols in the Wingdings and Webdings fonts in Unicode 7.0. 〔(Unicode 7.0.0 ) Pictographic symbols (including many emoji), geometric symbols, arrows, and ornaments originating from the Wingdings and Webdings sets〕 ==Wingdings== Wingdings is a TrueType dingbat font included in all versions of Microsoft Windows from version 3.1 onwards.〔(Fonts supplied with Windows 3.1. )〕 The Wingdings trademark is owned by Microsoft,〔 and the design and glyph order was awarded U.S. Design Patent D341848 in 1993.〔(Typeface - Google Patent Search )〕〔(United States Patent: D341848 )〕 The patent expired in 2005. In many other countries, a Design Patent would be called a ''registered design''. It is registration of a design to deter imitation, rather than a claim of a novel invention. This font contains many largely recognized shapes and gestures as well as some recognized world symbols, such as the Star of David, the symbols of the zodiac, index or manicle signs and obscure ampersands. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wingdings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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