When Microsoft bought the rights in the 1980s, the font was renamed Wingdings, an amalgam of Windows and Dingbats. The name also conveyed a certain lighthearted spirit, since “wingding” is an ...

Hermann Zapf, the German font designer who died Sunday, believed his famous Zapf Dingbats font should be used sparingly. Though Zapf Dingbats, which broke big when Apple integrated it into 1986 ...