Concept

Glyph

Overview

A glyph ( GLIF) is any kind of purposeful mark. In typography, a glyph is "the specific shape, design, or representation of a character". It is a particular graphical representation, in a particular typeface (or computer font), of an element of written language. That "element" is called a grapheme – the conceptual abstraction of some letter, number or symbol, which is independent of the glyph designed to represent it in a particular font.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Glyph

• Gerhard Dorn

Related ideas

• French language
• Grapheme
• Latin alphabet
• Writing system
• Portuguese language
• Turkish language
• ß

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