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Fonts Personified: Ever wondered what Wingdings would look like?
The short film also raises some serious issues though, like who the heck comes up with the names for these fonts? And has anybody ever used wingdings for anything? Why exactly is that font taking up space in Windows?
[via Gizmodo]
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Subscribe to commentsTrevorJul 22nd 2008 2:52PM
Actually, when I took a Media Presentation course in high school, we were taught to use wingding fonts for custom bullet points on Word documents and PowerPoints. Still, it is a really pointless font.
aJul 22nd 2008 3:03PM
Century Gothic was pretty cute :)
minibarJul 22nd 2008 7:04PM
When I worked in the software industry there were a number of programmers i knew who used windings (typically the same people who create highly personalized mappings for their keyboards), although more recently when I pursued a degree in computer science at the same university as many of those programmers, I don't recall any of my peers, professors or teaching assistants ever using windings. Trends like this tend to recycle, though.
MattJul 22nd 2008 8:04PM
I use WingDings sometimes in my tech documents because of the arrows it provides. Allows me to create simple diagrams in Word without the big leap to a Visio diagram, or the dreadful Word drawing tools. Just for a quick fix.
ioJul 22nd 2008 7:22PM
Sheer genius.
kevjohnJul 23rd 2008 1:59PM
This was full of narrow stereotypes and has about the same comedic depth as a Benny Hill sketch.
In other words, it's hilarious! Open mailbox indeed.
Anthony MorrealeJul 29th 2008 7:49AM
the wingdings part was seriously hilarious, when he starts spouting off random characters... some of the personifications were so good!
"Which one of you am I about to make... SANS Serif!"