Printer's ornament
| Dingbats | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+2700..U+27BF (192 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Assigned | 192 code points |
| Unused | 0 reserved code points |
| Source standards | ITC Zapf Dingbats series 100 |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0 | 160 (+160) |
| 3.2 | 174 (+14) |
| 5.2 | 175 (+1) |
| 6.0 | 191 (+16) |
| 7.0 | 192 (+1) |
| Note: | |
| Ornamental Dingbats | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+1F650..U+1F67F (48 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Symbol sets | Leaf ornaments, ornamental punctuation |
| Assigned | 48 code points |
| Unused | 0 reserved code points |
| Source standards | dingbat fonts Webdings, Wingdings, and Wingdings 2 |
| Unicode version history | |
| 7.0 | 48 (+48) |
| Note: | |
In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, character, or spacer used in typesetting, often employed for the creation of box frames. The term continues to be used in the computer industry to describe fonts that have symbols and shapes in the positions designated for alphabetical or numeric characters.
Examples of characters included in Unicode (ITC Zapf Dingbats series 100 and others):
The advent of Unicode and the universal character set it provides allowed commonly used dingbats to be given their own character codes. Although fonts claiming Unicode coverage will contain glyphs for dingbats in addition to alphabetic characters, fonts that have dingbats in place of alphabetic characters continue to be popular, primarily for ease of input. Such fonts are also sometimes known as pi fonts.
Some of the dingbat symbols have been used as signature marks, used in bookbinding to order sections.
The Dingbats block (U+2700–U+27BF) was added to the Unicode Standard in June 1993, with the release of version 1.1. This code block contains decorative character variants, and other marks of emphasis and non-textual symbolism. Most of its characters were taken from Zapf Dingbats.
The Dingbats block contains 33 emoji: U+2702, U+2705, U+2708–U+270D, U+270F, U+2712, U+2714, U+2716, U+271D, U+2721, U+2728, U+2733–U+2734, U+2744, U+2747, U+274C, U+274E, U+2753–U+2755, U+2757, U+2763–U+2764, U+2795–U+2797, U+27A1, U+27B0 and U+27BF.
The block has 40 standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following twenty base characters: U+2702, U+2708–U+2709, U+270C–U+270D, U+270F, U+2712, U+2714, U+2716, U+271D, U+2721, U+2733–U+2734, U+2744, U+2747, U+2753, U+2757, U+2763–U+2764 and U+27A1.
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