Webdings is a symbol font, consisting entirely of images of graphical elements that can be used in web pages. Each image takes the place of a single letter in the alphabet, or other keyboard character, so you can insert it just like letters in any normal typeface, and you can scale it up or down to whatever size you want. You can also apply color or other effects to it, just as you can to the letters of any typeface.
Webdings includes most of the common icons used for page navigation on the web, along with a variety of more playful images, which can be combined to make patterns.
Webdings was designed in 1997 as a way for web designers to incorporate graphic images into their web pages without the need to import large image files, which could slow down the rendering of the page. It was a collaboration between Microsoft type designer Vincent Connare and Monotype type designers Sue Lightfoot, Ian Patterson, and Geraldine Wade.
As with everything from Adobe Fonts, you can use these fonts for:
Design Projects
Create images or vector artwork, including logos
Website Publishing
Create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website
PDFs
Embed fonts in PDFs for viewing and printing
Video and Broadcast
Use fonts to create in-house or commercial video content
How to Use
You may encounter slight variations in the name of this font, depending on where you use it. Here’s what to look for.
Desktop
In application font menus, this font will display:
{{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_family_name}} {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_subfamily_name}}Web
To use this font on your website, use the following CSS:
font-family: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.family.css_font_stack.replace('"', '').replace('",', ', ')}};
font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.font.web.weight}};
Glyph Support & Stylistic Filters
Fonts in the Adobe Fonts library include support for many different languages, OpenType features, and typographic styles.