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What (who) is glyph - definition
ELEMENT OF WRITING
Glyphs; Glpyhs; Glyph (archaeology); Glyph (typography)
glyph
<character> An image used in the visual representation of
characters; roughly speaking, how a character looks. A
font is a set of glyphs.
In the simple case, for a given font (typeface and size),
each character corresponds to a single glyph but this is not
always the case, especially in a language with a large
alphabet where one character may correspond to several glyphs
or several characters to one glyph (a character encoding).
Usually used in reference to outline fonts, in particular
TrueType.
(1998-05-31)
glyph
[gl?f]
¦ noun
1. a pictograph or sculptured symbol; a hieroglyph.
2. Architecture an ornamental carved groove or channel, as on a Greek frieze.
3. Computing a small graphic symbol.
Derivatives
glyphic adjective
Origin
C18: from Fr. glyphe, from Gk gluphe 'carving'.
Glyph
·noun A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. ·see Triglyph.
II. Glyph ·add. ·noun A carved figure or character, incised or in relief; a carved pictograph; hence, a pictograph representing a form originally adopted for sculpture, whether carved or painted.
Wikipedia
Glyph
A glyph () 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, 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) can be represented by a glyph.
