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{{Short description|Purposeful written mark}} {{about|the typographical term|other uses|Glyph (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} [[File:A-small glyphs.svg|thumb|Various glyphs representing lower case letter {{angbr|a}} in various typefaces and as single- and double-storey; they are [[allograph]]s of the same [[grapheme]]|class=skin-invert-image]] {{wiktionary|glyph}} {{Orthography notation}} A '''glyph''' ({{IPAc-en|Ι‘|l|Ιͺ|f}} {{respell|GLIF}}) is any kind of purposeful mark. In [[typography]], a glyph is "the specific shape, design, or representation of a character".<ref>{{cite web |title=Confusing (and Frequently Misused) Type Terminology, Part 1 |work=fonts.com |publisher=Monotype Imaging |url=https://www.fonts.com/aboutfonts/articles/situationaltypography/confusingtypeterms.htm |first=Ilene |last=Strizver |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111225024213/https://www.fonts.com/aboutfonts/articles/situationaltypography/confusingtypeterms.htm |archive-date=25 December 2011}}</ref> 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){{efn|For example, the [[ampersand]] {{gpm|&}} began as two letters ({{angbr|e}} and {{angbr|t}}, the Latin word {{lang|la|et}}) that over the centuries became combined into a single unit known as a [[Typographic ligature|ligature]]}} can be represented by a glyph.
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