Montgomery County says it made a small mistake in some mailings that went out this week regarding the 2024 Revenue Neutral Notices.

 

 According to a Facebook post, some of the mailings were sent in the Wingdings font, making them unreadable.

 

People often wonder why the Wingdings font even exists, and why there are more than one of them. Wingdings came into existence in the early days of the internet. It used to be a lot more difficult to use and manipulate images online. There were few ways to get images, the files were often too large for hard drives, and they were of poor quality. It was also very difficult to get them to work well with text. Fonts like Wingdings gave people high-quality, scalable images that didn't use all of the hard drive space.

 

Wingdings also became fodder for some of the internet's first conspiracy theories, that the font contained hidden messages. On a positive note, they were also the forerunner of today's emojis.

 

But, they aren't really meant for reading. For those who received the Wingdings notices, contact the County Clerk's office at 620-330-1200 to get a corrected notice.