In 1992, mere days after Windows 3.1 was released, it was revealed that typing the letters NYC in Wingdings—Microsoft’s all-symbols font—produced the following antisemitic and/or Jewish ...

One of the time-honored rituals of bored term paper writers everywhere has been highlighting a block of text, selecting Wingdings from the fonts menu, and watching in amazement as the various letters, ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

A mysterious font like an emoji installed in Windows "WingdingsThere are a lot of people who have noticed that they have never used it, although they have seen them. Wingdings are not used much, but ...

Concerns about disturbing symbolic messages in a graphical font, which Microsoft believed it had assuaged nearly a decade ago, are resurfacing in the wake of terrorist attacks on New York. Now the ...

This time every year, 9/11 conspiracy theorists circulate a rumor about Microsoft’s Wingdings predicting the horror. It’s true to say that the font does contain some bizarre links to the attack. For ...