Originally released as Mac Shareware in 1993, the Poptics family of fonts proved popular enough that Windows shareware versions soon followed. The early versions each contained 52 picture characters and an extremely limited set of alphanumeric and punctuation characters.

Poptics Delux, the new Open Type version (no longer shareware), has a complete character set (although still all caps), improved spacing, a bit of general cleaning up, and something extra for Open Type aware applications.

The original picture characters are available by choosing Ornaments in Open Type aware applications or by installing the included Pics fonts for use in non Open Type aware applications—because you never know when you might need a fountain pen (Poptics Delux One), a matryoshka (Poptics Delux Two) or a pig in sunglasses (Poptics Delux Three).