One of the many new official emoji being added as part of Unicode 7 is a raised middle finger—like all the new emoji, it’s simply being added because it’s part of the Wingdings font.

The now-defunct Emoji Tracker. emojitracker.com. As it turns out, there's a pretty strange history behind the icon involving ska music, Peter Tosh and the guy who created Comic Sans.

One of the many new official emoji being added as part of Unicode 7 is a raised middle finger — like all the new emoji, it’s simply being added because it’s part of the Wingdings font.

IF you have used a smart phone or any social media, it is likely you have come across the humble emoji. Used to express feelings when words cannot, there are over 3,600 emojis for you to choose fro… ...

Most of the new emoji characters derive from characters in long-standing and widespread use in Wingdings and Webdings fonts. Additions to emoji characters include, for example: The 250 characters ...

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 ...

Before emoji ruled the world, the Wingdings font was the quickest, easiest way to supplement text with small, simple images. But where did Wingdings come from and how did the font even get that name?

The Museum of Modern Art has acquired 176 emoji designed by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999, calling them ... wingdings, and, now, emoji–those illustrated symbols that add an extra layer of expression ...

Two people made Wingdings happen: Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes (proprietors of the firm and husband-and-wife team). As designers of the font Lucida, they crafted pioneering type uniquely suited ...