Convert text to Wingdings symbols across all 4 font variants: Wingdings 1, 2, 3, and Webdings. Bidirectional — decode symbols back to text. Includes a complete 360+ character reference grid you can browse and click to copy. Supports Undertale Gaster messages.
Enter any text in the input box. The tool instantly converts each letter to its Wingdings symbol equivalent using Unicode mapping. Select your font variant from the dropdown — each variant maps letters to a completely different set of pictograms.
Wingdings 1 (1990 original) — hands, faces, religious symbols, weather, and objects. Wingdings 2 — writing tools, pointing hands, checkboxes, and circled numbers. Wingdings 3 — arrows and directional symbols. Webdings — transport, buildings, and internet symbols. All four are shown side by side for comparison.
Switch to Decode mode and paste any Wingdings symbols to convert them back to letters. Browse the full character reference grid showing every symbol with its letter mapping and Unicode code point. Click any symbol to copy it directly.
Wingdings is a series of dingbat fonts created by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes and first released by Microsoft in 1990. Instead of rendering the standard Latin alphabet, Wingdings maps each keyboard character to a pictographic symbol — hand gestures, astronomical symbols, religious icons, arrows, weather symbols, and decorative ornaments. It was created to give users access to a wide range of symbols for word processor documents before Unicode made such symbols universally available.
Wingdings (original, 1990): the classic set with hand gestures (pointing, thumbs up/down), smileys, religious symbols (cross, star of David, crescent), weather (sun, snowflake), and miscellaneous objects (scissors, envelope, airplane). Wingdings 2: focused on stationery and office symbols — writing tools, more hand variations, checkboxes, ballot marks, and circled numbers. Wingdings 3: primarily arrows and directional indicators of all styles. Webdings (1997): created specifically for web use, contains buildings, vehicles, internet symbols, and nature images.
In the video game Undertale (2015) by Toby Fox, the mysterious character W. D. Gaster communicates in Wingdings font. His text appears as Wingdings symbols throughout the game, creating an in-game cipher that players decoded by mapping the Wingdings character set back to standard letters. This made Wingdings newly popular online for creating Gaster-style coded messages. This tool fully supports encoding and decoding Gaster-style Wingdings text.
Wingdings symbols require the Wingdings font to be installed and rendered by the operating system. When you copy Wingdings symbols as text, the receiving application must also have the Wingdings font to display them. If it does not, the symbols appear as empty boxes or question marks. However, this tool uses Unicode-mapped versions of Wingdings symbols (added to Unicode 7.0 and later), which render as actual emoji/symbol characters on modern systems without needing the font installed.
Yes — the Wingdings font maps is a simple substitution cipher where each letter is replaced by a pictogram. It is a monoalphabetic substitution with 26 symbols (one per letter), which means it can be decoded trivially by anyone with the character map. It provides the same level of security as a Caesar cipher — which is to say, essentially none as a cryptographic cipher, but perfectly effective as a fun visual code for puzzles, games, and playful secret messages.
Many Wingdings symbols were added to the Unicode standard starting with version 7.0. They appear in several Unicode blocks including Miscellaneous Symbols, Dingbats, Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows, and the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block. However, not all Wingdings symbols have direct Unicode equivalents — some remain as font-specific characters that only display correctly with the Wingdings font installed. This tool uses Unicode equivalents where available.
