Before Apple’s LaserWriter Plus printer came along, the only exposure the general public would have had to the word “dingbat” was Archie Bunker’s use of it to insult his wife, Edith in the 1970s ...

Before Apple's LaserWriter Plus printer came along, the only exposure the general public would have had to the word "dingbat" was Archie Bunker’s use of it to insult his wife, Edith in the 1970s ...

If you’re an old school Apple fan, you may well remember the Cairo font. Cairo shipped with every version of macOS from 1984 through System 7.1. It was computer history’s first “dingbats” font in ...

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’s ...

If you need graphical elements, Tropicana–a TrueType dingbats font from Blue Vinyl, maker of Tiki Tooka–may awaken your inner beachcomber. Tropicana comprises 26 different depictions including fish, ...