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What (who) is typographic ornament - definition

TYPOGRAPHIC SYMBOL
Printer's ornament; Unicode Dingbats; ❇; ➿; ❖; ❙; ❚; ❍; ❏; ❐; ❑; ❒; ❣; Rotated floral heart bullet; Pi font; Typographic ornament; ❈; Dingbat font
  • Poem typeset with generous use of decorative dingbats around the edges (1880s). Dingbats are not part of the text.

Dingbat         
In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, specifically, a glyph used in typesetting, often employed to create box frames, (similar to box-drawing characters) or as a dinkus (section divider). Some of the dingbat symbols have been used as signature marks, used in bookbinding to order sections.
dingbat         
['d??bat]
¦ noun informal
1. N. Amer. & Austral./NZ a stupid or eccentric person.
2. (dingbats) Austral./NZ delusions or feelings of unease, particularly those induced by delirium tremens.
3. a typographical device other than a letter or numeral, used to signal divisions in text or to replace letters in a euphemistically presented vulgar word.
Origin
C19: origin uncertain; perh. based on ding2.
The Jewel Ornament of Liberation         
Draft:The Jewel Ornament of Liberation; Jewel Ornament of Liberation
The Jewel Ornament of Liberation or Ornament of Precious Liberation () is a key text in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism that is said to capture the essence of both the Kadampa and Kagyüpa lineages of Mahayana teachings. The text was written by Gampopa (1074-1153 C.

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Dingbat

In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, specifically, a glyph used in typesetting, often employed to create box frames (similar to box-drawing characters), or as a dinkus (section divider). Some of the dingbat symbols have been used as signature marks or used in bookbinding to order sections.

In the computer industry, a dingbat font was a computer font that has symbols and shapes that reused the code points designated for alphabetical or numeric characters. This practice was necessitated by the limited number of code points available in 20th century operating systems. Most modern fonts are based on Unicode, which has unique code points for dingbat glyphs.