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In typography, adingbat (sometimes more formally known as aprinter's ornament orprinter's character) is anornament, specifically, aglyph used intypesetting, often employed to create box frames (similar tobox-drawing characters), or as adinkus (section divider). Some of the dingbat symbols have been used assignature marks or used inbookbinding to order sections.^{[citation needed]}

In the computer industry, adingbat font orpi font^[1] is acomputer font that has symbols and shapes located at thecode points normally designated for alphabetical or numeric characters. This practice was necessitated by the limited number of code points available in 20th centuryoperating systems. Modern computer fonts containing dingbats are based onUnicode encoding, which has unique code points for dingbat glyphs.

Examples of characters included inUnicode (ITC Zapf Dingbats series 100 and others):

Unicode providescode points for many commonly used dingbats, as listed below. Prior to widespread adoption of Unicode in the early 2010s, "dingbat fonts" were created that allocated dingbat glyphs to codepoints in code positions otherwise allocated to "normal" character sets.

TheDingbats block (U+2700–U+27BF) (under the original block name "Zapf Dingbats", so named for type designerHermann Zapf) was added to theUnicode Standard in October 1991, with the release of version 1.0.This code block contains decorative character variants, and other marks of emphasis and non-textual symbolism. Most of its characters were taken fromZapf Dingbats. The block name was changed from "Zapf Dingbats" to "Dingbats" in June 1993, with the release of 1.1.^[4][5]

TheOrnamental Dingbats block (U+1F650–U+1F67F) was added to theUnicode Standard in June 2014 with the release of version 7.0.This code block contains ornamental leaves, punctuation, and ampersands, quilt squares, and checkerboard patterns.It is a subset of dingbat fontsWebdings,Wingdings, andWingdings 2.^[6]

• Webdings, a TrueType dingbat font designed atMicrosoft and published in 1997
• Wingdings, a TrueType dingbat font assembled by Microsoft in 1990, using glyphs from Lucida Arrows, Lucida Icons, and Lucida Stars, three fonts they licensed fromCharles Bigelow andKris Holmes
• Zapf Dingbats, a dingbat font designed byHermann Zapf in 1978, and licensed byInternational Typeface Corporation

• Arrows in Unicode blocks
• Asterism (typography), a triangle of asterisks
• Fleuron (typography), known as a class of horticultural dingbats
• Punctuation
• Text semigraphics, a method for emulatingraster graphics usingtext mode video hardware
• Unicode symbols

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• Retinart: A history of often-seen typographic marks
• Dingbat Depot: a large, well-known archive of free dingbat fonts.

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