An image used in the visual representation of charactersroughly speaking, how a character looks.A font is a set of glyphs.In the simple case, for a given font (typeface 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.(1998-05-31)