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Glyph

This article is about the typographical term. For other uses, see Glyph (disambiguation).

Various glyphs representing the lower case letter "a"; they are allographs of the grapheme ⟨a⟩
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A glyph (/ɡlɪf/ GLIF) is any kind of purposeful mark. In typography, a glyph is "the specific shape, design, or representation of a character".[1] It is a particular graphical representation, in a particular typeface, of an element of written language. A grapheme, or part of a grapheme (such as a diacritic), or sometimes several graphemes in combination (a composed glyph)[a] can be represented by a glyph.

  1. ^ Ilene Strizver. "Confusing (and Frequently Misused) Type Terminology, Part 1". fonts.com. Monotype Imaging. Archived from the original on 25 December 2011.


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