As someone who is not a logo designer or someone with the skill to even draw good stickmen, I am one of the few who takes a spin through the Webdings on my computer from time to time to find some shapes that can help me in my design.

While the scope of these are limited, there are a few favorites in there.

One day, while chatting with one of our part time programmers, I said, I wonder how many ASCII Characters we could pull up through code.  After all, if you know that ASCII code, you can create the image in HTML.

I was amazed to find that even if I put the code (for instance ∆) into Google, it would do a search on that character (this may not display properly for those who are struggling through Mac ownership) ∆

So I decided to have my programmer write out a script that would produce all of the Webdings and ASCII characters available on my computer.  And it came up with this page:

http://www.hannush.com/characterlist.php

Remember, all computers will see a different amount of these images actually displaying.  These characters have to be available on the computer or it has no way of showing it.  So this experiment will be limited on a Mac and may be limited on some really old PC’s.  Even on Vista, I am missing quite a few.  But its facinating to see what you can produce on a computer screen from a web page.

Try not to use these symbols in Internet websites.  Your success will be limited only to the audience who has these fonts installed.  But it’s very cool to try these out and maybe find a few universal images  you might be able to use.

Happy hunting.