What are glyphs?

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A glyph is a shape in a font that is used to represent a character code on screen - or on paper, if printed. One common example of a glyph is an actual letter. The symbols and shapes in other typefaces such as Zapf Dingbats are also glyphs, though. Letters are actually only shapes, but we see them as letters because that's how we associate them.

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