LinkedIn Pinpoint #847 Clue Walkthrough: Impact, Courier, Wingdings, Lucida Handwriting, Calibri or Aptos (in MS Office)
Pinpoint answer #847, the LinkedIn Pinpoint solution, and a clue-by-clue solve path
Answer at a glance
LinkedIn Pinpoint #847 answer:
The LinkedIn Pinpoint answer for puzzle #847 is “.” The answer to LinkedIn Pinpoint #847 is “Names of fonts.” Impact, Courier, Wingdings, Lucida Handwriting, and Calibri or Aptos are all typefaces found in familiar desktop and Microsoft Office workflows, even though they range from bold headlines and monospaced text to symbols, script, and everyday document copy.
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♧ 5 Clues
Why “Names of fonts” Connects All Five Clues
Impact and Courier make the strongest early pair because both are instantly recognizable typeface names, but they serve very different jobs: display headlines versus monospaced text. Wingdings then turns the pattern toward installed fonts rather than writing styles, while Lucida Handwriting and Microsoft Office’s Calibri-to-Aptos transition confirm that the clues are font names, not file formats or keyboard tools.
Quick wink: Five fonts walked into one document; Wingdings refused to say anything readable, while Impact insisted on making the headline.
Our Solve Experience for Pinpoint #847
Our first read: We start with Impact and Courier. Both are familiar font names, so typography becomes the leading category even though one is a heavy display face and the other is monospaced.
What changed our mind: We use Wingdings as the confirmation clue. Its glyphs are symbols rather than ordinary letters, but it is still installed and selected like a font, ruling out a narrower category such as readable body typefaces.
Our final check: We finish with Lucida Handwriting and Calibri or Aptos. The former imitates informal script, while Calibri and Aptos are associated with Microsoft Office defaults, confirming the broad answer “Names of fonts.”
Clue Evidence Table
| Clue | Connection evidence | Role in the solve |
|---|---|---|
| Impact | Impact is a bold, condensed sans-serif display typeface designed to command attention in headlines, posters, labels, and other short pieces of prominent text. | Early anchor |
| Courier | Courier is a monospaced typeface family: every character occupies the same horizontal width, a feature associated with typewriters, code, and tabular text. | Early anchor |
| Wingdings | Wingdings is a symbol typeface whose character positions display pictograms and icons instead of a conventional alphabet, while remaining selectable through a font menu. | Cross-check |
| Lucida Handwriting | Lucida Handwriting is a script-style typeface designed to resemble informal handwritten lettering, with connected forms and a softer appearance than standard body text. | Cross-check |
| Calibri or Aptos (in MS Office) | Calibri served for years as Microsoft Office’s default typeface, while Aptos later became the newer default across Microsoft 365 applications. | Final confirmation |
References Used for Factual Checks
The puzzle number, clue wording, and category are checked against the public LinkedIn game. The references below support factual claims in our independent clue explanations.
- Microsoft Typography — Impact font familyMicrosoft’s typeface record identifies Impact and explains its bold, condensed display design.
- Microsoft Typography — Windows 11 font listMicrosoft’s installed-font inventory lists Calibri and Wingdings as Windows font families.
- Microsoft Typography — AptosMicrosoft identifies Aptos as the new default Office font created to replace Calibri.
