Dingbat

In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, a glyph (roughly, character) or spacer used in typesetting, often employed to create box frames (similar to box-drawing characters) or as a dinkus (section divider).

Poem typeset with generous use of decorative dingbats around the edges (1880s). Dingbats are not part of the text.

In the computer industry, a Dingbat font is a font that has symbols and shapes in the positions designated for alphabetical or numeric characters [many other fonts include dingbat glyphs, but in dedicated slots].

Examples

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

 
 

Encoding

The advent of Unicode provides allowed commonly used dingbats to be given their own code points (unique binary code). Although Unicode fonts (Unicode compliant font) may contain glyphs for dingbats in addition to alphabetic characters, non-compliant 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.[1]

Some of the dingbat symbols have been used as signature marks, used in bookbinding to order sections.

Dingbats Unicode block

Dingbats
RangeU+2700..U+27BF
(192 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCommon
Assigned192 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Source standardsITC Zapf Dingbats series 100
Unicode version history
1.0.0160 (+160)
3.2174 (+14)
5.2175 (+1)
6.0191 (+16)
7.0192 (+1)
Note: [2][3]

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. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Zapf Dingbats.[4]

Compact table

Dingbats[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+270x
U+271x
U+272x
U+273x
U+274x
U+275x
U+276x
U+277x
U+278x
U+279x
U+27Ax
U+27Bx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 13.0

Emoji

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.[5][6]

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. [7]

Emoji variation sequences
U+270227082709270C270D270F271227142716271D
default presentationtexttexttexttexttext[8]texttexttexttexttext
base code point
base+VS15 (text)✂︎✈︎✉︎✌︎✍︎✏︎✒︎✔︎✖︎✝︎
base+VS16 (emoji)✂️✈️✉️✌️✍️✏️✒️✔️✖️✝️
U+27212733273427442747275327572763276427A1
default presentationtexttexttexttexttextemojiemojitexttexttext
base code point
base+VS15 (text)✡︎✳︎✴︎❄︎❇︎❓︎❗︎❣︎❤︎➡︎
base+VS16 (emoji)✡️✳️✴️❄️❇️❓️❗️❣️❤️➡️

Emoji modifiers

The Dingbats block has four emoji that represent hands. They can be modified using U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF to provide for a range of human skin color using the Fitzpatrick scale:[6]

Human emoji
U+270A270B270C270D
emoji✌️✍️
FITZ-1-2✊🏻✋🏻✌️🏻✍️🏻
FITZ-3✊🏼✋🏼✌️🏼✍️🏼
FITZ-4✊🏽✋🏽✌️🏽✍️🏽
FITZ-5✊🏾✋🏾✌️🏾✍️🏾
FITZ-6✊🏿✋🏿✌️🏿✍️🏿

Additional human emoji can be found in other Unicode blocks: Emoticons, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs and Transport and Map Symbols.

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Dingbats block:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+2701..2704, 2706..2709, 270C..2727, 2729..274B, 274D, 274F..2752, 2756, 2758..275E, 2761..2767, 2776..2794, 2798..27AF, 27B1..27BE160(to be determined)
L2/11-438[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3]N4182Edberg, Peter (22 December 2011), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
L2/15-050R[lower-alpha 4][lower-alpha 3]Davis, Mark; et al. (29 January 2015), Additional variation selectors for emoji
L2/15-301[lower-alpha 5][lower-alpha 3]Pournader, Roozbeh (1 November 2015), A proposal for 278 standardized variation sequences for emoji
3.2U+2768..277514L2/00-420Patel, Sairus (21 November 2000), Proposal for additional 14 Dingbats
L2/00-436Patel, Sairus (18 December 2000), Proposal to complete the Dingbats block in Unicode/ISO-IEC 10646
L2/01-087N2321Patel, Sairus (31 January 2001), Proposal to complete the Dingbats block in Unicode/ISO-IEC 10646
L2/01-012RMoore, Lisa (21 May 2001), "Dingbats", Minutes UTC #86 in Mountain View, Jan 2001
L2/01-344N2353 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (9 September 2001), "7.8 Proposal to complete the Dingbats block in 10646", Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001
5.2U+27571N3353 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (10 October 2007), "M51.32", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-259Suignard, Michel (2 August 2007), Japanese TV Symbols
L2/07-391N3341Suignard, Michel (18 September 2007), Japanese TV Symbols
L2/08-077R2N3397Suignard, Michel (11 March 2008), Japanese TV symbols
L2/08-128Iancu, Laurențiu (22 March 2008), Names and allocation of some Japanese TV symbols from N3397
L2/08-158Pentzlin, Karl (16 April 2008), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols"
L2/08-188N3468Sekiguchi, Masahiro (22 April 2008), Collected comments on Japanese TV Symbols (WG2 N3397)
L2/08-077R3N3469Suignard, Michel (23 April 2008), Japanese TV symbols
L2/08-215Pentzlin, Karl (7 May 2008), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols"
L2/08-289Pentzlin, Karl (5 August 2008), Proposal to rename and reassign some Japanese TV Symbols from L2/08-077R3
L2/08-292Stötzner, Andreas (6 August 2008), Improvement suggestions for n3469
L2/08-307Scherer, Markus (8 August 2008), Feedback on the Japanese TV Symbols Proposal (L2/08-077R3)
L2/08-318N3453 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (13 August 2008), "M52.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
L2/08-161R2Moore, Lisa (5 November 2008), "Consensus 115-C17", UTC #115 Minutes, Approve 186 Japanese TV symbols for encoding in a future version of the standard.
L2/09-064Scherer, Markus (29 January 2009), Request to change some ARIB/AMD6 character names and a code point
L2/09-234N3603 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (8 July 2009), "M54.03b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
L2/11-438[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3]N4182Edberg, Peter (22 December 2011), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
6.0U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF[lower-alpha 3]14L2/09-025R2N3582[lower-alpha 6]Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (5 April 2009), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols
L2/09-026RN3583Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (6 February 2009), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
L2/09-027R2N3681Scherer, Markus (17 September 2009), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
L2/09-114N3607Towards an encoding of symbol characters used as emoji, 6 April 2009
L2/09-412N3722Suignard, Michel (26 October 2009), "Ireland T2", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4078 (PDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
N3703 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (13 April 2010), "M55.9h", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30
L2/09-335RMoore, Lisa (10 November 2009), "Consensus 121-C10", UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes
L2/10-088N3776DoCoMo Input on Emoji, 8 March 2010
L2/10-089N3777KDDI Input on Emoji, 8 March 2010
L2/10-137N3828Suignard, Michel (22 April 2010), "JP.G11b, JP.T5, JP.T12", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4123 (FPDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
L2/10-132Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (27 April 2010), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
L2/10-138N3829Constable, Peter; et al. (27 April 2010), "10", Emoji Ad-Hoc Meeting Report
L2/16-361Pournader, Roozbeh; Felt, Doug (7 November 2016), Add text and emoji standardized variation sequences for 96 symbols
U+275F..27602L2/09-021N3565Proposal to encode two heavy low quotes for German in the UCS Dingbats block, 15 January 2009
L2/09-003RMoore, Lisa (12 February 2009), "D.7", UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes
L2/09-234N3603 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (8 July 2009), "M54.13b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
7.0U+27001L2/11-052RSuignard, Michel (15 February 2011), Wingdings and Webdings symbols - Preliminary study
L2/11-149Suignard, Michel (9 May 2011), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings symbols
L2/11-196N4022Suignard, Michel (21 May 2011), Revised Wingdings proposal
L2/11-247N4115Suignard, Michel (8 June 2011), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
L2/11-344N4143Suignard, Michel (28 September 2011), Updated proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
N4103"10.2.1 Wingdings/Webdings additions", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 3 January 2012
L2/12-130N4239Suignard, Michel (8 May 2012), "E4.", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4201 (PDAM text for Amendment 1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 3rd edition)
N4363Suignard, Michel (13 October 2012), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
L2/12-368N4384Suignard, Michel (6 November 2012), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
L2/12-086N4223Requests regarding the Wingdings/Webdings characters in ISO/IEC 10646 PDAM 1.2, 27 December 2012
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429
  3. Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents
  4. See also L2/13-207, L2/14-054, L2/14-063, L2/15-051A, L2/15-051B
  5. See also L2/15-198 and L2/15-275
  6. Japanese translation of N3582 is available as N3621

Ornamental Dingbats Unicode block

Ornamental Dingbats
RangeU+1F650..U+1F67F
(48 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsLeaf ornaments, ornamental punctuation
Assigned48 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Source standardsdingbat fonts Webdings, Wingdings, and Wingdings 2
Unicode version history
7.048 (+48)
Note: [2][3]

The Ornamental Dingbats block (U+1F650–U+1F67F) was added to the Unicode 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 fonts Webdings, Wingdings, and Wingdings 2.[9]

Ornamental Dingbats[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+1F65x 🙐 🙑 🙒 🙓 🙔 🙕 🙖 🙗 🙘 🙙 🙚 🙛 🙜 🙝 🙞 🙟
U+1F66x 🙠 🙡 🙢 🙣 🙤 🙥 🙦 🙧 🙨 🙩 🙪 🙫 🙬 🙭 🙮 🙯
U+1F67x 🙰 🙱 🙲 🙳 🙴 🙵 🙶 🙷 🙸 🙹 🙺 🙻 🙼 🙽 🙾 🙿
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 13.0

Character table

Code Result Description
U+2700 Black safety scissors
U+2701 Upper blade scissors
U+2702 Black scissors
U+2703 Lower blade scissors
U+2704 White scissors
U+2705 White heavy check mark
U+2706 Telephone location sign
U+2707 Tape drive
U+2708 Airplane
U+2709 Envelope
U+270A Raised fist
U+270B Raised hand
U+270C Victory hand
U+270D Writing hand
U+270E Lower right pencil
U+270F Pencil
U+2710 Upper right pencil
U+2711 White nib
U+2712 Black nib
U+2713 Check mark
U+2714 Heavy check mark
U+2715 Multiplication X
U+2716 Heavy multiplication X
U+2717 Ballot X
U+2718 Heavy ballot X
U+2719 Outlined Greek cross
U+271A Heavy Greek cross
U+271B Open center cross
U+271C Heavy open center cross
U+271D Latin cross
U+271E Shadowed white Latin cross
U+271F Outlined Latin cross
U+2720 Maltese cross
U+2721 Star of David
U+2722 Four teardrop-spoked asterisk
U+2723 Four balloon-spoked asterisk
U+2724 Heavy four balloon-spoked asterisk
U+2725 Four club-spoked asterisk
U+2726 Black four-pointed star
U+2727 White four-pointed star
U+2728 Sparkles
U+2729 Stress outlined white star
U+272A Circled white star
U+272B Open center black star
U+272C Black center white star
U+272D Outlined black star
U+272E Heavy outlined black star
U+272F Pinwheel star
U+2730 Shadowed white star
U+2731 Heavy asterisk
U+2732 Open center asterisk
U+2733 Eight spoked asterisk
U+2734 Eight pointed black star
U+2735 Eight pointed pinwheel star
U+2736 Six pointed black star
U+2737 Eight pointed rectilinear black star
U+2738 Heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star
U+2739 Twelve pointed black star
U+273A Sixteen pointed asterisk
U+273B Teardrop spoked asterisk
U+273C Open center teardrop spoked asterisk
U+273D Heavy teardrop spoked asterisk
U+273E Six petalled black and white florette
U+273F Black florette
U+2740 White florette
U+2741 Eight petalled outlined black florette
U+2742 Circled open center eight pointed star
U+2743 Heavy teardrop spoked pinwheel asterisk
U+2744 Snowflake
U+2745 Tight trifoliate snowflake
U+2746 Heavy chevron snowflake
U+2747 Sparkle
U+2748 Heavy sparkle
U+2749 Balloon spoked asterisk
U+274A Eight teardrop spoked propeller asterisk
U+274B Heavy eight teardrop spoked propeller asterisk
U+274C Cross mark
U+274D Shadowed white circle
U+274E Negative squared cross mark
U+274F Lower right drop-shadowed white square
U+2750 Upper right drop-shadowed white square
U+2751 Lower right shadowed white square
U+2752 Upper right shadowed white square
U+2753 Black question mark ornament
U+2754 White question mark ornament
U+2755 White exclamation mark ornament
U+2756 Black diamond minus white X
U+2757 Heavy exclamation mark symbol
U+2758 Light vertical bar
U+2759 Medium vertical bar
U+275A Heavy vertical bar
U+275B Heavy single turned comma quotation mark ornament
U+275C Heavy single comma quotation mark ornament
U+275D Heavy double turned comma quotation mark ornament
U+275E Heavy double comma quotation mark ornament
U+275F Heavy low single comma quotation mark ornament
U+2760 Heavy low double comma quotation mark ornament
U+2761 Curved stem paragraph sign ornament
U+2762 Heavy exclamation mark ornament
U+2763 Heavy heart exclamation mark ornament
U+2764 Heavy black heart
U+2765 Rotated heavy black heart bullet
U+2766 Floral heart
U+2767 Rotated floral heart bullet
U+2768 Medium left parenthesis ornament
U+2769 Medium right parenthesis ornament
U+276A Medium flattened left parenthesis ornament
U+276B Medium flattened right parenthesis ornament
U+276C Medium left-pointing angle bracket ornament
U+276D Medium right-pointing angle bracket ornament
U+276E Heavy left-pointing angle quotation mark ornament
U+276F Heavy right-pointing angle quotation mark ornament
U+2770 Heavy left-pointing angle bracket ornament
U+2771 Heavy right-pointing angle bracket ornament
U+2772 Light left tortoise shell bracket ornament
U+2773 Light right tortoise shell bracket ornament
U+2774 Medium left curly bracket ornament
U+2775 Medium left curly bracket ornament
U+2776 Dingbat negative circled digit one
U+2777 Dingbat negative circled digit two
U+2778 Dingbat negative circled digit three
U+2779 Dingbat negative circled digit four
U+277A Dingbat negative circled digit five
U+277B Dingbat negative circled digit six
U+277C Dingbat negative circled digit seven
U+277D Dingbat negative circled digit eight
U+277E Dingbat negative circled digit nine
U+277F Dingbat negative circled digit ten
U+2780 Dingbat circled sans-serif digit one
U+2781 Dingbat circled sans-serif digit two
U+2782 Dingbat circled sans-serif digit three
U+2783 Dingbat circled sans-serif digit four
U+2784 Dingbat circled sans-serif digit five
U+2785 Dingbat circled sans-serif digit six
U+2786 Dingbat circled sans-serif digit seven
U+2787 Dingbat circled sans-serif digit eight
U+2788 Dingbat circled sans-serif digit nine
U+2789 Dingbat circled sans-serif digit ten
U+278A Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit one
U+278B Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit two
U+278C Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit three
U+278D Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit four
U+278E Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit five
U+278F Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit six
U+2790 Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit seven
U+2791 Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit eight
U+2792 Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit nine
U+2793 Dingbat negative circled sans-serif digit ten
U+2794 Heavy wide-headed rightward arrow
U+2795 Heavy plus sign
U+2796 Heavy minus sign
U+2797 Heavy division sign
U+2798 Heavy south east arrow
U+2799 Heavy rightward arrow
U+279A Heavy north east arrow
U+279B Drafting point rightward arrow
U+279C Heavy round-tipped rightward arrow
U+279D Triangle-headed rightward arrow
U+279E Heavy triangle-headed rightward arrow
U+279F Dashed triangle-headed rightward arrow
U+27A0 Heavy dashed triangle-headed rightward arrow
U+27A1 Black rightward arrow
U+27A2 Three-D top-lighted rightward arrowhead
U+27A3 Three-D bottom-lighted rightward arrowhead
U+27A4 Black rightward arrowhead
U+27A5 Heavy black curved downward and rightward arrow
U+27A6 Heavy black curved upward and rightward arrow
U+27A7 Squat black rightward arrow
U+27A8 Heavy concave-pointed black rightward arrow
U+27A9 Right-shaded white rightward arrow
U+27AA Left-shaded white rightward arrow
U+27AB Back-tilted shadowed white rightward arrow
U+27AC Front-tilted shadowed white rightward arrow
U+27AD Heavy lower right-shadowed white rightward arrow
U+27AE Heavy upper right-shadowed white rightward arrow
U+27AF Notched lower right-shadowed white rightward arrow
U+27B0 Curly loop
U+27B1 Notched upper right-shadowed white rightward arrow
U+27B2 Circled heavy white rightward arrow
U+27B3 White-feathered rightward arrow
U+27B4 Black-feathered south east arrow
U+27B5 Black-feathered rightward arrow
U+27B6 Black-feathered north east arrow
U+27B7 Heavy black-feathered south east arrow
U+27B8 Heavy black-feathered rightward arrow
U+27B9 Heavy black-feathered north east arrow
U+27BA Teardrop-barbed rightward arrow
U+27BB Heavy teardrop-shanked rightward arrow
U+27BC Wedge-tailed rightward arrow
U+27BD Heavy wedge-tailed rightward arrow
U+27BE Open-outlined rightward arrow
U+27BF Double curly loop

See also

Dingbat fonts

References

  1. "Fonts by Adobe" (PDF). adobe.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 April 2015.
  2. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  3. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  4. "3.8: Block-by-Block Charts" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. version 1.0. Unicode Consortium.
  5. "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 11 February 2020.
  6. "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 28 January 2020.
  7. "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
  8. Google Chrome on Android uses the emoji presentation by default, despite this standard.
  9. "N4115: Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols" (PDF). Retrieved 2 July 2014.
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