Wingdings Translator

A symbol font Microsoft shipped in 1990: every letter maps to a picture, so typing text in the font produces a row of icons. It predates emoji by two decades and lives on as an internet curiosity.

It maps each letter to the modern Unicode symbol that matches its Wingdings glyph, so the result displays on any device with no font required, and you can translate symbol runs back into readable text.

Paste the symbols into the decode box and the letters come back. Each icon corresponds to exactly one keyboard character, so decoding is lossless.

It is a substitution cipher at best, fine for puzzles and jokes, useless for secrets since anyone with a chart (or this page) reads it instantly. For anything that matters, use real encryption, like our encrypt text tool.