Wingdings Translator

About Wingdings

Wingdings is a dingbat font Microsoft shipped with Windows in 1992, built from the Lucida Icons, Arrows, and Stars typefaces. Instead of letters, each key prints a small picture, so typing a word produces a row of symbols — which is why it became a playground for hidden messages and internet lore. It is written with the ordinary keyboard, and a converter simply maps each character to the Wingdings glyph it stands for.

Strictly, Wingdings is a one-to-one cipher rather than a language: it swaps each letter for a fixed picture and swaps back exactly. Because the symbols were later given proper Unicode code points, the output here is made of real characters, so it copies and pastes anywhere and renders as the familiar dingbats when shown in the Wingdings font. The most famous Wingdings curiosity is the 1990s urban legend around certain letter combinations, which kept the font in pop culture long after its everyday use faded.