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Dingbats is a Unicode block containing dingbats (or typographical ornaments, like the FLORAL HEART character). Most of its characters were taken from Zapf Dingbats; it was the Unicode block to have imported characters from a specific typeface; Unicode later adopted a policy that excluded symbols with "no demonstrated need or strong desire to exchange in plain text", [3] and thus no further ...
1. ^ As of Unicode version 16.0 Template documentation [ view ] [ edit ] [ history ] [ purge ] {{ Unicode chart Ornamental Dingbats }} provides a list of Unicode code points in the Ornamental Dingbats block.
Ornamental Dingbats is a Unicode block containing ornamental leaves, punctuation, and ampersands, quilt squares, and checkerboard patterns. It is a subset of dingbat fonts Webdings , Wingdings , and Wingdings 2 .
Poem typeset with generous use of decorative dingbats around the edges (1880s). Dingbats are not part of the text. In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, specifically, a glyph used in typesetting, often employed to create box frames (similar to box-drawing characters), or as a dinkus (section divider).
Thirty forms of fleuron have code points in Unicode.The Dingbats and Miscellaneous Symbols blocks have three fleurons that the standard calls "floral hearts" (also called "aldus leaf", "ivy leaf", "hedera" and "vine leaf"); [7] twenty-four fleurons (from the pre-Unicode Wingdings and Wingdings 2 fonts) in the Ornamental Dingbats block and three more fleurons used in archaic languages are also ...
1. ^ As of Unicode version 16.0 Template documentation [ view ] [ edit ] [ history ] [ purge ] {{Unicode chart Dingbats}} provides a table listing the characters in the Dingbats block of Unicode. 33 characters in this block are considered emoji ; their cells can be highlighted using an optional parameter.
A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the format &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh; where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form.
Newspapers, magazines, and other works can use dinkuses as simple ornamentation of typography, for solely aesthetic reasons. [13] When a dinkus is used primarily for aesthetic purposes, it often takes the form of a fleuron, e.g. , or sometimes a dingbat. [14] While fleurons, dingbats, and dinkuses are usually distinct, their uses can overlap.