In the computer industry, a Dingbat font is a font that has symbols and shapes in the positions designated for alphabetical or numeric characters (many other fonts include dingbat glyphs, but in dedicated slots).

What does dingbat mean in computers?

In general, a dingbat is a character, spacer, or ornament used in typesetting. In computing, dingbat is a term used to describe certain fonts that have shapes and symbols in place of what would normally be letters and numbers. One common example is the Zapf Dingbat.

What is a dingbat image?

Actually, they do. You probably know that dingbats are fonts that consist of little pictures, bullets and shapes that display in place of characters, numbers and punctuation. In the world of printing, a dingbat was known as a printer’s ornament and was used for things like ending a chapter or a section in a book.