A glyph is a graphical representation (among countless possible) a typographical sign, ie a character (character glyph) or an accent (accent glyph). A particular character can be created by adding an accent to a glyph glyph character. Computer software have access to this glyph drawing through a font : the outline of the glyph is most often defined by a set of points or Bezier curves.

Glyph "a" police Caliban

Archaeology

In archeology , glyph has a meaning closer to its etymology: it designates a line engraved intaglio, a carving. For the signs etched into the rock, it is called petroglyphs.

See also

Glyph "a" police CaslonItalic

• Character
• Hieroglyph

External Links

• (In) Unicode Technical Report # 17 chapter "Characters vs. Glyphs"

Coded character sets
Multibyte	Unicode ISO / IEC 10646 , Table of Unicode characters , UTF-8 , UTF-16 , UTF-32 , UTF-EBCDIC , CESU-8 , BOCU-1 Other ISO / IEC 2022 , Big5 , ISCII , GB 18030 , GBK , Shift-JIS , Chinese Character Encoding
8-bit	ISO / IEC 8859 ISO / IEC 8859-1 (Latin-1), ISO / IEC 8859-3 (Latin-3), ISO / IEC 8859-15 (Latin-9) Windows code pages Windows-1252 (Latin-1), Windows-1258 (Vietnamese) Code pages MacOS MacRoman DOS code pages Cp437 (Latin-US), CP850 (Latin-1), CP852 (Latin-2) Different code pages DEC-MCS , KOI8-R (Russian), KOI8-U (Ukrainian), StandardEncoding (PostScript) Not based on ISO 646 VISCII , EBCDIC , EBCDIC 297 , EBCDIC 8859
Other	7-bit ASCII , ISO 646 Less than 7 bits Morse , Wabun Code , Baudot code , RADIX-50 , sixbit
Related Articles	Character coding , computer keyboard , digital font , Glyph, Portal: Writing

Terms of typography
Page	Pagination Front - back Margin Column Recess
Paragraph	Widows and orphans Leading River Justification
Character	Ligation Approach Kerning Shift Tiny Small Caps CamelCase Lettrine Eye Corps Baseline Centerline Height capital Panse : Jamb and stem Diacritics Contreforme Oldstyle Exponent and index Dingbat Glyph
Iron	Wheelbase Linale Italic Oblique Grease
Classifications	Thibaudeau classification Elzevir Didone Egyptian Antiques Vox-atypical classification Classics: Humane Garalde Reale Modern Didone slab serif Linale Calligraphic: Incise Script Manuaire Fraktur Other Uncial Gothic
Punctuation	Quote Prime Dash Hyphen
Layout	Calligraphy Character " Etaoin Shrdlu " False text Foundry typographical cast of characters Fonte Pangramme Typesetting Police
Units typographical	Item point pica Cadratin
Digital typography	Character Encoding Format Cast Police Matrix

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