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Glyph

Glyph

Sponsored by Blaze Type . Typeface in use: Apoc , designed by Matthieu Salvaggio with Tomorrow Type, 2018.

The terms ‘glyph’ and ‘character’ are often mixed up, but there is a linguistic difference between them: a glyph is a specific representation of a character. For example, the character A can be represented by both glyphs A and a.

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