There are so many more dingbats in the world! The full ITC Zapf Dingbats font has 360 different characters, but itself is only a subset of more than 1,200 symbols that Hermann Zapf originally created. The font that Medium uses for its website renders some dingbats extra large, in color: ✅ ✊ ✋ ✨ ❌ ❎ ❓ ❔ ❕ ❗(yes, some of those are in white, which really isn’t helpful to us). Some specific fonts display specific dingbats in quirky ways. The asterism above, the fleurons, whatever this is: ❣ - all are available to us without any special fonts, they are an inherent part of whatever font we are using. That means we can use them in our text just by typing them.

The good thing is that many Zapf Dingbats have been incorporated into Unicode, probably due to the sheer geeky magnificence of their name.

It contains tens of thousands of symbols, to accommodate all the world’s writing systems, and for the most part, we really don’t care.

Unicode is the standardized computer symbol set. These are actually the oldest dingbats-they were used to indicate paragraph breaks in Latin and Greek texts-and they are still widely used in the print world. And these are examples of fleurons: ❧ ❦ ☙ ❁ - stylized leaves or flowers.

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