Wingdings Translator

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   Type your message

   Enter text in the left box. The translator looks up each character in the selected Wingdings table and shows the matching Unicode symbol.

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   Pick a variant

   Use the variant menu to switch between Wingdings, Wingdings 2, Wingdings 3 and Webdings. The same letter can look completely different in each font. Turn on Gaster mode if you want the message uppercased before it is translated.

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   Copy or decode

   Copy the symbols into a document, chat or design. To go the other way, paste symbols into the right box and choose the variant they came from.

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   Watch for ambiguous symbols

   A few Wingdings 2 symbols stand for two letters. The decoder returns the first letter and shows a hover hint such as “Could also be T”.

Wingdings is a dingbat font: a typeface whose character slots contain pictures instead of ordinary letters. Microsoft shipped it with Windows and Office in the 1990s, and it became famous for turning ordinary text into hands, clocks, folders and zodiac signs.

Wingdings 2, Wingdings 3 and Webdings are separate fonts with different picture sets. They share the idea of mapping printable ASCII to symbols, but their tables are not interchangeable.

A Wingdings character is not a picture file; it is a font glyph. This translator outputs Unicode characters that look like the glyphs, so they can be copied as text. The exact shape depends on the font installed on the reader's device.

The variation selector U+FE0E asks for a text-style glyph and helps avoid colorful emoji on phones. Some symbols still render as emoji on platforms that prefer emoji presentation, which is a platform limitation rather than a translation error.

Because the mapping is published and reversible, Wingdings offers no security. It is a visual substitution, not encryption. Anyone with the table can read it.

That does not make it less fun. Wingdings is useful for puzzles, retro design, Undertale fan projects and messages that need to look unusual without leaving the text layer.

Undertale players may recognize the all-caps Wingdings often associated with W. D. Gaster. The Gaster mode switch on this page uppercases your message before looking up each character, so lowercase input comes out in the capital-letter Wingdings style used by that character.

Microsoft introduced Wingdings in the early 1990s as a companion to its Windows and Office fonts. The picture set grew out of the Lucida icon designs by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, then expanded into the separate Wingdings 2, Wingdings 3 and Webdings families.

The fonts were never meant to be decoded as a cipher. Their purpose was to put useful pictograms — folders, clocks, envelopes, arrows — at ordinary keyboard positions so that documents could include simple icons without image files.

• Using the wrong variant to decode

  A symbol copied from Wingdings 2 will not decode correctly with the Wingdings 1 table. Select the variant that produced the text.

• Expecting identical Microsoft Word glyphs

  The translator outputs Unicode lookalikes, not the original Wingdings font. Shapes may differ slightly from a Word document that uses the actual font.

• Assuming every symbol is unique

  Wingdings 2 uses the same glyph for S/T and for W/X. Decoding has to choose one; the hover hint explains the alternative.