glyph definition character 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 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