What Is a Wingdings Font Generator?

Quick answer: Wingdings is a symbol font where each keyboard key shows a picture instead of a letter, such as ✌ for A and ♋ for a. A Wingdings font generator swaps your letters for the matching Unicode symbols, so the message keeps its look when pasted into chats, posts, or games, and a translator turns Wingdings back into words.

Microsoft shipped Wingdings with Windows 3.1 in 1992, designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, as a set of handy pictograms for documents. Typing in it produces strings of hands, zodiac signs, shapes and office icons, which is why Wingdings became the internet’s favourite pretend secret code.

Real Wingdings only works when the reader has the font installed, and the text keeps its formatting. Unicode solved that: in 2014, version 7.0 added most Wingdings and Webdings pictures as ordinary characters. This generator uses those characters, so ✌👌👍 survive copy and paste. A safe mode replaces the rarest symbols, which some phones cannot draw, with close lookalikes. The page also covers Undertale fans looking for a Gaster font generator: W.D. Gaster speaks in Wingdings, and the message maker renders his dialogue box as an image.

For strange letters that stay almost readable, try the weird text generator instead of full symbols.

• 74 Mapped keys
• 15 Safe-mode swaps
• 2 Translation directions

How Do You Type in Wingdings?

1. Type normal text: Remember that capitals and lowercase give different symbols.
2. Choose exact or safe: Exact matches the real font; safe works on every phone.
3. Copy the symbols: Paste them into Discord, a chat, a post, or a game.
4. Decode replies: Paste Wingdings into the translator to read it.

Make Gaster’s lines even eerier by adding glitch text effects to the English version.

What Does Each Letter Look Like in Wingdings?

Keys	Wingdings symbols	Theme
A to I	✌ 👌 👍 👎 ☜ ☞ ☝ ☟ 🖐	Hand gestures
J to N	☺ 😐 ☹ 💣 ☠	Faces, bomb, skull
O to Z	⚐ 🏱 ✈ ☼ 💧 ❄ 🕆 ✞ 🕈 ✠ ✡ ☪	Flags, weather, religious symbols
a to i	♋ ♌ ♍ ♎ ♏ ♐ ♑ ♒ ♓	Zodiac signs
j to z	🙰 🙵 ● 🔾 ■ □ 🞐 ❑ ❒ ⬧ ⧫ ◆ ❖ ⬥ ⌧ ⮹ ⌘	Ornaments and shapes
0 to 9	📁 📂 📄 🗏 🗐 🗄 ⌛ 🖮 🖰 🖲	Office and computer icons

These are the closest Unicode equivalents of the original font; a few shapes differ slightly from the Windows drawing.

Prefer colourful pictures? The emoji text generator turns words into emoji sentences.

What Is the Gaster Font?

In Undertale, released by Toby Fox in 2015, the mysterious royal scientist W.D. Gaster speaks in Wingdings, and his name is a nod to the Wingdings and Gaster fonts themselves. Fans write messages in the same symbols for fan art, theories, and Discord roleplay. The Gaster styles add the dialogue asterisk and famous lines, and the message maker draws a white-bordered black box like the in-game text window.

What Can You Do with Wingdings Text?

• Secret notes: messages friends must decode, optionally ciphered first.
• Undertale fandom: Gaster quotes, fan art captions, and roleplay.
• Puzzles and escape rooms: clues that need the chart to solve.
• Usernames and bios: a cryptic touch in Discord or game profiles.
• Classroom fun: code-breaking activities with a printed key.
• Decoding: reading Wingdings someone sent you.

Hide part of a puzzle completely with invisible text characters.

Symbol Font Glossary

Dingbat font

A typeface made of pictures and ornaments instead of letters.

Webdings

A later Microsoft symbol font with web-themed icons.

Unicode 7.0

The 2014 release that added most Wingdings pictures as real characters.

ROT13

A simple cipher that shifts each letter 13 places.

Atbash

An ancient cipher that swaps A with Z, B with Y, and so on.

Braille

A tactile writing system shown here with Unicode dot patterns.

Wingdings Tools on This Page

Two-way translator

Encode and decode in one box.

Keyboard chart

74 keys with code points.

Gaster maker

Undertale-style dialogue image.

Safe mode

Swaps rare symbols for common ones.

Cipher styles

ROT13, Atbash, and Caesar combos.

Other symbol fonts

Braille, zodiac, chess, and cards.

Got a message full of strange symbols?

Paste it into the translator and read it in plain English.

⇄ Decode Wingdings 

Wingdings Not Showing Correctly?

Problem	Cause	Fix
Some symbols are boxes	Rare Unicode 7 pictures missing from the font	Tick safe symbols
Hands look like colour emoji	Phones draw 👍 and 💣 as emoji	Expected: meaning is unchanged
Decoder leaves symbols	Text was not Wingdings, or used other icons	Check against the keyboard chart
Message too long for a name	Symbols count as two characters	Shorten the text
Word ends up in the wrong case	Capitals and lowercase map differently	Match the case you intended

For readable styled letters, use the main font generator.

Tips for Wingdings Messages

Pick one case

All capitals give the hands; all lowercase gives zodiac and shapes.

Add a cipher

ROT13 first makes the puzzle harder for friends who know Wingdings.

Share the key

Point puzzle solvers to the keyboard chart.

Use images for art

The Gaster maker keeps the look identical on every screen.

Wingdings Font Generator FAQ

What is Wingdings?

A Microsoft symbol font from 1992 in which each key shows a picture, such as hands, zodiac signs, and office icons.

What is the fastest way to write a message in Wingdings?

Enter your words above and copy the first card; whole paragraphs go through the translator.

How do I translate Wingdings back to English?

Paste the symbols into the translator and choose Wingdings → text.

Why do capital and small letters look different?

Wingdings gives every key its own picture: capitals are hands and objects, lowercase letters are zodiac signs and shapes.

What is the Gaster font?

Fans use the name for Wingdings because W.D. Gaster from Undertale speaks in it.

How do I write like Gaster from Undertale?

Use the Gaster Dialogue style, or make a dialogue box image in the Gaster message maker.

What does “dark darker yet darker” mean?

It is a famous Gaster line from Undertale; a style on this page prints it in Wingdings.

My Wingdings message shows empty rectangles. Why?

A few rare pictures added in Unicode 7.0 are missing from older fonts; safe mode swaps them for common symbols.

Is this exactly the same as the Windows font?

It uses the closest Unicode equivalents; nearly all match, and a few shapes differ slightly.

Can I paste Wingdings into Discord?

Yes. Messages and nicknames show the symbols, and many count as two characters.

Does Wingdings have numbers?

Yes. Digits become office and computer icons from 📁 to 🖲.

What is Webdings?

A later Microsoft symbol font with web and media icons, separate from Wingdings.

How can I make a Wingdings message harder to read?

Use ROT13 then Wingdings or Atbash then Wingdings in the Secret Messages group.

What is the Wingdings keyboard chart?

It lays out all 74 keys beside their pictures and code points, and each tile copies on tap.

Can I use Wingdings in Word?

Word has the real Wingdings font; the Unicode version here works anywhere, including places without fonts.

Is Braille included?

Yes. The Braille style maps a to z onto Unicode Braille dot patterns.

Can I print a Wingdings key for a classroom puzzle?

Open the keyboard chart and print the page, or screenshot it.

Do Wingdings symbols work on iPhone?

Most do; enable safe symbols for the best coverage on older iPhones.

Will the Gaster image look the same everywhere?

Yes. It is a PNG, so the symbols are fixed in the picture.

Is my secret message stored?

No. Encoding and decoding happen on your device only.

Why does the translator leave some characters alone?

Spaces and punctuation without a Wingdings symbol stay as typed so the message stays readable.

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