Before Apple’s LaserWriter Plus printer came along, the only exposure the general public would have had to the word “dingbat” was Archie Bunker’s use of it to insult his wife, Edith in the ...

Before the advent of desktop publishing, a dingbat was simply a decorative printer’s ornament used to end an article in a magazine or a chapter in a book, or as a typographical embellishment on a page ...