Adobe Glyph List
Encyclopedia
The Adobe Glyph List is a mapping of 4,281 glyph
names to one or more Unicode
character
s. Its purpose is to provide an implementation guideline for consumers of fonts (mainly software applications); it lists a variety of standard names that are given to glyphs that correspond to certain Unicode character sequences. The AGL is maintained by Adobe Systems
.
For producers of font
s, Adobe suggests a more limited set of names, the Adobe Glyph List for New Fonts (AGLFN), based on an earlier version of the AGL. Names not in the AGLFN are to be constructed by standard heuristics described in Unicode and Glyph Names.
AGL and AGLFN, along with related resources, are currently maintained and available at the AGL & AGLFN open source project hosted at Open @ Adobe.
Glyph
A glyph is an element of writing: an individual mark on a written medium that contributes to the meaning of what is written. A glyph is made up of one or more graphemes....
names to one or more Unicode
Unicode
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
character
Character (computing)
In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language....
s. Its purpose is to provide an implementation guideline for consumers of fonts (mainly software applications); it lists a variety of standard names that are given to glyphs that correspond to certain Unicode character sequences. The AGL is maintained by Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...
.
For producers of font
Font
In typography, a font is traditionally defined as a quantity of sorts composing a complete character set of a single size and style of a particular typeface...
s, Adobe suggests a more limited set of names, the Adobe Glyph List for New Fonts (AGLFN), based on an earlier version of the AGL. Names not in the AGLFN are to be constructed by standard heuristics described in Unicode and Glyph Names.
AGL and AGLFN, along with related resources, are currently maintained and available at the AGL & AGLFN open source project hosted at Open @ Adobe.
External links
- Unicode and Glyph Names - Adobe's explanatory material about heuristics for glyph naming/decoding and the use of AGL and AGLFN
- Adobe Glyph List - the actual mapping for font consumers
- Adobe Glyph List for New Fonts - the actual mapping for font producers
- ITC Zapf Dingbats Glyph List - the actual mapping for Zapf dingbat glyphs