Dingwings: Reverse Wingdings

Dingwings is a font you can only type with an emoji keyboard.

Instead of having letter/number codepoints mapped to symbolic glyphs (like Wingdings), it takes symbolic Unicode characters and maps them to English letters, numbers, and punctuation.

Click the buttons or type on your keyboard to add text to the output area. Hold down Shift to see capitals and punctuation.

Copy and paste the output into another text editor/word processor to see what the underlying characters are:

Note: Some of these Unicode symbols are so obscure that they won't show up in most fonts. If you want to try a font that includes all of them, try Symbola.

The page uses @font-face to implement the awful and stupid font dingwings.ttf. The rest is HTML/CSS/jQuery.

The font was cobbled together with FontForge. The letter/number glyphs came from Arial Unicode, which is probably not OK? I have a hard time caring about that.

Efforts have been made to find Unicode equivalents for all the original Wingdings glyphs. However, liberties have been taken where necessary.

I think it's funny.

Zoe Piel. I also do illustration, comics, and animation.