Wingdings Converter

One menu chooses the direction, and the result appears as you type.

1. Open the Mode menu and choose Text to Wingdings to write a message, or Wingdings to text to read one.
2. Type or paste into the Input box. When you are decoding, paste the symbols exactly as you received them.
3. Read the result in the output box, which is headed Wingdings.
4. Press Copy or Download .txt. To check a round trip, press Use as input, switch the mode to Wingdings to text, and your original words come back.

As an example, Hello World becomes ☟♏●●□ 🕈□❒●♎: the capital H gives a pointing hand, the lowercase e gives the Scorpio sign, and the space in the middle is left alone.

Decoding handles mixed input: a sentence that contains both symbols and plain words returns the words untouched and the symbols decoded. Any character the table does not know, including the invisible selector characters that some apps attach to emoji-style symbols, is passed through unchanged, so a stray mark in the output usually means the pasted text contained something extra.

Wingdings is a symbol font created for Microsoft by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. It has no letters. Each key on the keyboard shows a picture instead: zodiac signs, hands, arrows, envelopes, folders and shapes. In a word processor you can type a sentence, change the font to Wingdings, and watch it become pictures. Change it back and the words return, because the underlying text never changed.

That only works in programs that apply fonts. On the web, in chat and in usernames the font is not available, so this converter uses the Unicode symbols that correspond to each picture. Unicode now includes equivalents for most Wingdings shapes, which is why the result displays without the font.

• 67 characters are mapped: the 26 lowercase letters, the 26 capitals, the 10 digits, and the marks ! ? . , and &.
• Case matters. Lowercase a gives ♋ while capital A gives ✌, as in the real font.
• Everything else passes through. Spaces, other punctuation, accented letters and emoji are left unchanged in both directions.
• Decoding is an exact lookup. A symbol that is not in the table stays as it is.

The table below samples the mapping so you can see the logic. The lowercase run from a to i is the zodiac, and the capitals start with hands.

Wingdings text is mostly play. It suits puzzles, escape-room clues and role play, and fans of the game Undertale use it for the character W. D. Gaster, whose speech appears in the font. It is not encryption. Every letter always becomes the same symbol, so anyone with a converter can read it at once.

• Some symbols may show as boxes. A few shapes, such as 🙰 for j, 🕆 for U and several of the digit symbols, sit in rarely supported Unicode blocks. Older devices and some fonts will not draw them.
• Approximate matches. The shapes are the nearest Unicode characters, so your device may draw them a little differently from the original font.
• Text set in the font needs no conversion. If a document looks like pictures only because the font was switched to Wingdings, change the font back. The words are still there.

For other substitution codes, see the Caesar cipher tool, the Morse code translator and the binary code translator. To look up the code point of a symbol you have pasted, use the Unicode text converter.