NYC in Wingdings and Webdings BORED? Play our free word games – INTERACTIVE HANGMAN For many years the Microsoft Windows operating system has been distributed with a font called Wingdings, amongst many others, as standard. This font differs from most others in that its character set is not composed of letters and numbers, but small images (icons). More recently another font called Webdings has also been added to the Microsoft Windows package. This too is comprised wholly of small graphical icons in place of the letters. When you type NYC ( New York City and display the result in the Wingdings font, you see the following: The skull and cross-bones, the star of Judaism, and the thumbs-up have collectively been interpreted as the anti-semitic message: Death to Jews, OK. Things get even more interesting when you display NYC in the Webdings font. Here is the result: An eye, a heart, and a Manhatten skyline: I love New York. This rather interesting result may not be the coincidence that it seems. Some believe that Microsoft's font designers responsible for Webdings were well aware of what NYC spelled out in Wingdings, and purposely assigned the above symbols to the characters N, Y, and C in the new font they were creating. Do you know anyone else who would enjoy this? Email this page to a friend. Also: Sign up for our free web site updates here.
The I Love New York logo was designed by Milton Glaser in 1977. For other uses, see I Love New York (disambiguation). I Love New York (stylized I ❤ NY) is both a logo and a song that are the basis of an advertising campaign and have been used since 1977 to promote tourism in New York City,[1] and later to promote New York State as well. The trademarked logo, owned by New York State Empire State Development,[2] appears in souvenir shops and brochures throughout the state, some licensed, many not. The song is the state song of New York. Contents 1 Logo 2 New York State song 3 Imitations 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Logo[edit] Nick Walker's Love Vandal at 17th and 6th Avenue in Manhattan The logo consists of the capital letter I, followed by a red heart symbol (❤ below which are the capital letters N and Y, set in a rounded slab serif typeface called American Typewriter.[3] In 1977, William S. Doyle, Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Department of Commerce hired advertising agency Wells Rich Greene to develop a marketing campaign for New York State. Doyle also recruited Milton Glaser, a productive graphic designer to work on the campaign, and created the design based on Wells Rich Greene's advertising campaign. Glaser expected the campaign to last only a couple months and did the work pro bono.[3] The innovative pop-style icon became a major success and has continued to be sold for years. In the popular mind (though this was not the original intention) the logo has become closely associated with New York City, and the placement of the logo on plain white T-shirts readily sold in the city has widely circulated the appearance of the image, making it a commonly recognized symbol. Glaser's original concept sketch and presentation boards were donated by Doyle to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.[4] The image became.
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