meaning of glyph

1. A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.
2. glyph 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.
3. glyptic art in the form of a symbolic figure carved or incised in relief

Related Words

glyph | glyphic | glyphograph | glyphographic | glyphography |

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