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Dingbat fonts – Who uses these anyways?

September 4, 2006 by in Random with 3 Comments

dingbat sex fontSeriously, can anyone chime in with whether or not they use dingbat fonts on a semi-regular basis? What is the real reason why these come preloaded on computers? And why do I feel guilty whenever to try to convince myself to delete them from the hardrive?

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  • http://www.alifelessordinary.com/ Thomas J. Brown

    I use them from time to time. Obviously, I don’t use them to write out words, I just use individual letters as icons and stuff. Some of them are useful, but most of them are crap. I do wonder why they come pre-loaded on computers, given their utter uselessness to most people.

  • Jerry

    Never understood them until I started doing graphics stuff. But for the common man? Useless…

  • http://www.digg.com Smoking

    Dingbats that come pre-installed are used in the OS and its applications :)

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