
<p>In typography, a glyph is a specific shape or design used to represent a character. Meaning, a glyph can represent a single character in a multitude of ways depending on how its is designed to look.</p>



<p>For example: If you have 9 different designs for the letter &#8216;a&#8217;, you have 9 glyphs.</p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img decoding="async" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/A-small_glyphs.svg/220px-A-small_glyphs.svg.png" alt="Glyph - Wikipedia"/><figcaption>Source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph">Wikipedia</a></figcaption></figure></div>



<p>A collection of glyphs in the same design family is considered a typeface. A collection of organised glyphs can be used to spell words.</p>




