# How I put the peace sign in my sig **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 10, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688 "2003-04-10T01:18:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/1 "2003-04-10T01:18:02Z")
Some of you have asked how I was able to get the peace sign (A) in my sig. I shall reveal the secret here, and, hereafter, I shall be able to direct other seekers to this thread for enlightenment. A week or so ago, someone mentioned in a thread (probably one of the **raisinbread** threads) that you could change the font face on your posts. If the reader’s machine has that font installed, then they will see the text in that font. If you type [FO**NT=Times New Roman]this text will appear in Times New Roman[/FO**NT]. As I read this, I remembered the “Wingdings” font that makes little pictures when you type each letter (My friends and I used to use this font to create secret codes when we were in high school). The peace sign is a Wingdings capital A. Try it, it’s fun! You may need to increase the size of the type to make your symbol legible. I used “size=6” to do that. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/2 "2003-04-10T02:51:25Z")
It would appear, from my computer anyway, that this is NOT a universal thing. All I see is a Capital A. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/3 "2003-04-10T02:53:07Z")
Doesn’t appear to work with the Opera browser, for some reason. If I use IE, I see the winding, but in Opera it’s just a capital A. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/4 "2003-04-10T06:09:33Z")
I’m also using Opera and see a big capital A. ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/5 "2003-04-10T07:21:14Z")
I can see it. Now if only there was a Wingding for a middle finger. That could sure come in handy from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/6 "2003-04-10T07:29:51Z")
Capital A. My guess is that only people with the Wingdings font installed can see it. Apparently an Opera problem, too. I’m Macintosh/Opera, no dings of any kind. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/7 "2003-04-10T07:31:46Z")
Yeah, if you don’t have Wingdings installed, you won’t see it. Some people get rid of those superfluous fonts in order to save disk space. Hmmm…I wonder why it won’t work in Opera. It does, however, work in Netscape. I have found, though, that other “Wingdings-type” fonts, such as Webdings and Wingdings 2 and 3, do not work in Netscape. So, there is certainly a browser issue. The smattering of alphabetical fonts I tried did work with Netscape. This trick works well in IE, though. For instance, if you happen to be using IE and have the “Animals 1” font, you’ll see a little triceratops ?..otherwise, you just see a big question mark. It sure would, **peepthis**. You’d have to keep it in the Pit, though. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/8 "2003-04-10T07:45:56Z")
You know, I think there is (or was) a very Wingdings-like font for Macintosh called Zapf Dingbats. I remember using it in high school. I think that the peace sign was on either the comma or the period there. We used to use it as a “secret” code. (Yep, that’s what we did in the computer lab in the days before the internet, children…) ---
**Author:** ![King\_Friday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@King\_Friday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Friday)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/9 "2003-04-10T08:04:31Z")
“A” ---
**Author:** ![King\_Friday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@King\_Friday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Friday)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/10 "2003-04-10T08:06:22Z")
oops…([“SIZE=6]A[/SIZE”]) without the " " ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/11 "2003-04-10T12:52:59Z")
I got it. And, damnit! I’m gonna use it! Muchos Nachos. ---
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/12 "2003-04-10T13:01:50Z")
this could also be seen as the V from Victory. try the real peace sign! ---
**Author:** ![Cyrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Cyrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyrin)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/13 "2003-04-10T13:28:43Z")
And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination… Hee hee! Time to fix my Sig! ---
**Author:** ![NutMagnet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@NutMagnet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NutMagnet)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/14 "2003-04-10T13:38:20Z")
… ] Ã With Webdings, you can have a talking erection in your sig! ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/15 "2003-04-10T13:42:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elfje \* > \*\*this could also be seen as the V from Victory. > try the real peace sign! \*\* Thats exactly what it will be seen as by a British Doper - we’ll see it as a Churchillian “V for Victory” which obviously has very different connotations to “peace”. so be warned 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ashkicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Ashkicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashkicker)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/16 "2003-04-10T14:31:37Z")
Hey cool it works. I guess that means I have wingdings.C ---
**Author:** ![Oicu812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Oicu812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oicu812)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/17 "2003-04-10T14:45:33Z")
Testing this out… k m N O ---
**Author:** ![Oicu812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Oicu812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oicu812)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/18 "2003-04-10T14:54:07Z")
IJTC O ---
**Author:** ![Oicu812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Oicu812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oicu812)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/19 "2003-04-10T14:57:31Z")
Does the Mac have the webdings font? O ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-put-the-peace-sign-in-my-sig/167688/20 "2003-04-10T14:59:03Z")
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