After deciding to incorporate Webdings in the browser, the Internet Explorer team and Connare's manager, Simon Daniels, drew up a list of symbols to design, mostly stuff that might look good on a website in 1997. Connare went down the list, selecting the ones he was interested in. One option immediately stood out. "I had a Specials Japanese import LP, and | saw one of the keywords was ‘jump’ so thought it would be good to make a jumping, pogoing man," he said. "The style of the 2 Tone guy was black on white, and it was graphic, so it was easy to make something like it into a font."
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