What's the difference between font and glyph?

Font


Definition:

  • (n.) A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.
  • (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source.
  • (n.) A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • iOS 7 is the product of a major redesign – new, thin fonts and a brighter interface with more subtle animation.
  • (2) With no font preferences, every designer can do a picture-perfect layout on every screen, because they don't have to reflow the text accordingly, which is what websites should always do," he says.
  • (3) A pixação-inspired font, Adrenalina , can be downloaded for US$25 and, in 2012, the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art invited a group of pixadores to make an “artistic intervention”.
  • (4) Possible signings Ryan Bertrand, Virgil van Djik, José Fonte (Southampton).
  • (5) But the deeply idiosyncratic Octopuss font on the station sign is a reminder that ‘77 was also the year of Donna Summer’s I Feel Love and Saturday Night Fever: the end of the world may have been nigh, but one corner of Berlin was boogying the night away to uphold western civilisation.
  • (6) At least Farah has now put some distance in their relationship by moving to Font Romeu, his traditional summer camp in the south of France.
  • (7) Stuart, our guide from Wilderness Scotland, is easy-going and unassuming, and also a font of knowledge and a meticulous safety checker.
  • (8) These led to the following conclusions: to construct the best bibliographic searching system at the present time, 1) a concept of micro-to-mainframe links (MML) is needed for the computer hardware network; 2) multi-lingual font standards and an excellent common user-computer interface are needed for the computer software; 3) a short course and education of database management systems, and support of personal information processing for retrieved data are necessary for the practical use of the system.
  • (9) A series of 126 cases of orbitomaxillozygomatic fractures observed in the Maxillofacial Unit of Miulli Hospital, Acquaviva delle Fonte between January 1980 and December 1987 is examined.
  • (10) On the U6, a line once dotted with “ghost stations” closed during the GDR era, there are still some stops which look lost in time, such as Platz der Luftbrücke or Naturkundemuseum, their names spelled out in wobbly handcarved fonts.
  • (11) Fonts differ between lines, sometimes between stations on the same line, and in a couple of instances even between platforms at the same station.
  • (12) Southampton had lost Toby Alderweireld to an early injury but Florin Gardos seamlessly filled the gap alongside José Fonte.
  • (13) Sturridge raced down the right and attempted to lay the ball across to the unmarked Suárez but José Fonte stretched to poke the ball behind just as the Uruguayan prepared to pounce.
  • (14) The absence of Toby Alderweireld from central defence is an obvious worry as the Belgian has formed a solid partnership with José Fonte since arriving on loan from Atlético Madrid in September.
  • (15) After Ramsey's fancy flick was diverted by Jose Fonte, Wilshere burst on to the ball and eked out a chip so delicate it sailed over Boruc as if in slow motion.
  • (16) Suarez would have an empty net to sidefoot into had the ball reached him, Boruc having raced out to meet Sturridge, but the low pass is poked out of play by Fonte, sliding in brilliantly.
  • (17) Southampton 1-1 Sunderland (Fonte 88) Another late goal for the Saints.
  • (18) After Forster’s world-class, one-handed save from Giroud’s header, Arsenal sensed the decisive moment was close and it came after José Fonte appeared to have handled inside the area under pressure from Giroud.
  • (19) Spends much of each year training at altitude at Font Romeu in the French Pyrenees and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • (20) Possible signings José Fonte (Southampton), Nélson Semedo (Benfica).

Glyph


Definition:

  • (n.) A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two related peptides, carbobenzoxy-L-PheGly and carbobenzoxy-L-GlyPhe, are less potent in raising the bilayer to hexagonal phase transition temperature, with the latter peptide being the least effective of the three.
  • (2) A liquid chromatographic method for determining glyphosate (GLYPH) and its major metabolite aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) in various environmental substrates is described.
  • (3) I like you,” shouted one fan to Prince, in between tracks.“You’re not too bad yourself,” replied the singer, clad in a black fur gilet and cradling a guitar behind a microphone stand bearing his signature male-female glyph symbol.
  • (4) The mean recoveries for GLYPH in barley, canola, dry pea, flax, soybean, wheat, and white bean ranged from 90.0 to 98.1%, with coefficients of variation (CV) from 2.9 to 10.0% and limits of detection (LOD) from 0.07 to 0.14 ppm.
  • (5) He glances around the room, with its indecipherable glyph-strewn whiteboards.
  • (6) Precision for GLYPH determination was good with less than 14% coefficient of variation on mean recovery for all substrates.
  • (7) Mean recovery efficiencies for GLYPH as determined from fortified blank field samples were as follows: bottom sediment 84%, suspended sediment 66%, organic soils 79%, mineral soils 73%, alder leaf litter 81%, salmonberry leaf litter 84%, and artificial deposit collectors 87%.
  • (8) Carlson traces its roots back to the romanticism of lost cities in the jungle, the beautiful and enigmatic glyphs, and what some considered the mysterious fate of the Mayan people.
  • (9) A postcolumn liquid chromatographic method to determine the extractable residues of glyphosate (GLYPH) and its principal metabolite, (aminomethyl)phosphonic acid (AMPA), in various cereals and beans is described.
  • (10) The stone carvings show traditional Baktun glyphs - a 'baktun' representing a cycle of the Mayan calendar.
  • (11) The method was successfully used to quantitate GLYPH and AMPA in organic and mineral soils, stream sediments, and foliage of 2 hardwood brush species.
  • (12) It helps you draw levels for platform games using symbols (“glyphs”) for common elements: ladders, moving blocks, coins and so on.
  • (13) For fans of Richard D James, there was no mistaking the weird glyph that appeared above London’s Oval Space on Saturday .