The numbers are used by tables and instructions to access the glyphs. The language of the people of northern Nigeria and widely used as a trade language in west Africa. In TrueType the proper term for this type of digital font control is instructing . In digital fonts and hinting, moving points between two moved key points and keeping the relation the same as the original positions of all points. To add or remove white space between two pairs of letters to improve the visual appearance of the letter spacing.
Examples are English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.
Several letters combined into a single fluid form. Making a single character from more than one glyph. An extension to TrueType and PostScript font formats defined by Microsoft Corporation and Adobe Systems. A series of curves and straight lines that are filled with pixels to make an image. The difference between the round and flat glyph heights and baselines in a group.