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A dingbat is an ornament or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a “printer’s ornament”. The term supposedly originated as onomatopoeia in old style metal-type print shops, where extra space around text or illustrations would be filled by “ding”ing an ornament into the space then “bat”ing tight to be ready for inking [citation needed].
The term continued to be used in the computer industry to describe fonts that had symbols and shapes in the positions designated for alphabetical or numeric characters.
An example (something like ITC Zapf dingbats series 100):
http://www.fontfreak.com/ding-e.htm
http://www.fontriver.com/dingbats/
http://www.urbanfonts.com/free-dingbats.htm
http://www.acidfonts.com/dingbats1.htm
http://simplythebest.net/fonts/dingbats.html
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