glyph

A glyph could be composed of several code points.

It's not SVG, it's not PostScript, it's not a bitmap, it's just a glyph sandwich.

"When people use these silly font+glyph combos I never use their software.

Tl;dr: It is a fall-back font of which every glyph is zero width.

Only view a file?a gear/light flash/different sort of eye glyph from the one before.

Noto is short for 'no tofu', tofu being the rectangles you get when you don't have a font covering that glyph.

Bootstrap had <i class="icon-bookmark">, and adding FontAwesome just made that render as a font glyph instead of an image with no extra work.

The brand rework here throws ALL of these things away and replaces them with a stylized "w" glyph that is almost but not quite exactly like the logo used by Wordpress.

It's true that lots of errors can occur when people assume 1 wchar = 1 codepoint = 1 glyph but utf-8 has similar complexity and I've seen plenty of people screw it up too.

And even in UTF-32 there are instances where a single glyph takes multiple code points - the decomposed accent marks are the one example I know, possibly there are others?

> a font for programmers, by a programmer> Every glyph was carefully planned and calculated, according to defined principles and rules.

"Matrix matching involves comparing an image to a stored glyph on a pixel-by-pixel basis; it is also known as "pattern matching" or "pattern recognition".

In the most simple application of "flat design" trends, it's essentially one step up from a wireframe: pick a color scheme on some color scheme website, download a 200-pack of glyph icons and BAM you've moved from an abstract wireframe to something a little more sophisticated and approachable.