Questions tagged [fonts]

I have known about the weird dingbat fonts since the first time I tried to change the font on MS word and stumbled upon them. Since then I never questioned them, I just thought hey cool. Now I have some questions. What is the purpose behind…

For most applications, when you type a key on your keyboard it often prints onto screen the letter corresponding to the keystroke. By "printing" I mean the set of pixels associated with the keystroke gets displayed on-screen. How does your…