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 ...

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

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, ...

From the classic Calibri to the quirky Wingdings, computer users have over half a million fonts to choose from. Now, a study has revealed what your font choice says about you. Experts from Adobe asked ...

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 ...