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Every single glyph in a font has an associated unicode reference: a unique identifier that corresponds with the same character in other typefaces, regardless of the language.

![An abstract representation of a glyph table, showing a number of glyphs with their associated Unicode values in each box.](images/thumbnail.svg)

Unicode defines which characters exist; any given character will have a default glyph in the font—and perhaps more. For example, a capital A, swash capital A, and small cap A would be three different glyphs, but all options for the same character of “capital A”.

In theory every font can contain a custom set of characters—numeral-only fonts are not uncommon—but, in practice, most tend to cover a few well-defined character sets.