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A dingbat, sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character, is an ornament, character, or spacer used in typesetting, often employed for the creation of box frames. The term continues to be used in the computer industry to describe fonts that have symbols and shapes in the positions designated for alphabetical or numeric characters. Examples of characters included in Unicode (ITC Zapf Dingbats series 100 and others): The advent of Unicode and the universal character set it provides allowed commonly used dingbats to be given their own character codes. Although fonts claiming Unicode coverage will contain glyphs for dingbats ''in addition to'' alphabetic characters, fonts that have dingbats ''in place of'' alphabetic characters continue to be popular, primarily for ease of input. Such fonts are also sometimes known as ''pi fonts''.〔https://www.adobe.com/type/browser/pdfs/PiFontInfo.pdf〕 Some of the dingbat symbols have been used as signature marks, used in bookbinding to order sections. == Unicode == The Dingbats block (U+2700–U+27BF) was added to the Unicode Standard in June 1993, with the release of version 1.1. This code block contains decorative character variants, and other marks of emphasis and non-textual symbolism. Most of its characters were taken from Zapf Dingbats. The block has thirty standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following fifteen base characters: U+2702, U+2708-U+2709, U+270C, U+270F, U+2712, U+2714, U+2716, U+2733-U+2734, U+2744, U+2747, U+2757, U+2764 and U+27A1.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Unicode Character Database: Standardized Variants )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Unicode Character Database: Standardized Variation Sequences )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dingbat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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