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A small selection of the Hymag archive
Credit: Matt Benson
Scent creates the most acute kind of nostalgia and it is heavy in this former cannon factory in the south east London, close to the river. Inside I find Hymag, the world’s biggest collection of magazines according to the Guinness World Records, with over 150,000 magazines.
Hymag is open to visitors for a fee: to students, academics, magazine fanatics and brands, who use it, among other things, to research their own histories. (A representative of the House of Dior, for instance, is a regular visitor.) Hymag is in the process of digitalisation, to reach a wider audience and preserve the material which will, without intervention, eventually degrade.
Why the Wingdings font exists
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It seems as bizarre as it is ubiquitous.
What is Wingdings thinking? Why would someone want to write a comma using a mailbox? Why would anyone think we want to compose in peace signs and crosses and heart shapes? The below is just a brief example of Wingdings weirdness:
Wingdings and friends. (Vox)
But Wingdings is much more than just a quirky font. It was and remains a phenomenon. In the early 90s, it was one of the first times people realized fonts could break through to the mainstream. One of the creators of Wingdings, Charles Bigelow, of the legendary design studio Bigelow & Holmes, told me Wingdings marked one of the first times a font became part of the popular culture.
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Q&A
Your screenshot shows the first character to be from a Hiragino font; why don t I see that on my system?
You might not have the Hiragino fonts on your system. In that case, some other font (perhaps Zapf Dingbats) will be used to render the ‘pointing hand’ character.
I select one character in the sample text, and two rows in the table are highlighted; what gives?
You have selected a Unicode composed character that is represented internally using multiple consecutive codes, each shown as a line in the table.