Zapf Dingbats

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Zapf Dingbats is one of the more common dingbat typefaces, which first gained wide distribution as one of 35 PostScript fonts built into Apple's LaserWriter Plus. It was designed by the typographer Hermann Zapf and licensed by International Typeface Corporation. Its glyph set is included in Unicode and it is one of the "Basic 14" typefaces guaranteed to be available for PDF files.

David Carson, radical editor of experimental music magazine Ray Gun, lent the font a degree of notoriety in 1994 when he printed an interview with Bryan Ferry in the magazine entirely in the symbols-only font – the double-page spread was of course, quite illegible.

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