The Adobe Glyph List (AGL) is a mapping of 4,281

glyph A glyph ( ) is any kind of purposeful mark. In typography, a glyph is "the specific shape, design, or representation of a character". It is a particular graphical representation, in a particular typeface, of an element of written language. A ...

names to one or more

Unicode Unicode or ''The Unicode Standard'' or TUS is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 16.0 defines 154,998 Char ...

characters. 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 Inc. ( ), formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American software, computer software company based in San Jose, California. It offers a wide range of programs from web design tools, photo manipulation and vector creation, through to ...

. For ''producers'' of

font In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a ''typeface'', defined as the set of fonts that share an overall design. For instance, the typeface Bauer Bodoni (shown in the figure) includes fonts " Roman" (or "regul ...

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 th
AGL & AGLFN
open source project.

Adobe Latin

The Adobe Latin (AL) is a mapping of 1,307 (pre-composed) glyph names. These character sets are informative, not normative, and some have changed since they were first issued. For example, the original version of AL3 did not include the Turkish lira nor the ruble.

* ttps://adobe-type-tools.github.io/adobe-latin-charsets/adobe-latin-4.html Adobe Latin 4 = 616 glyphs, Adobe Western 2 + CE + most of WGL-4 + Vietnamese + (a few things)
Adobe Latin 5 = 1119 glyphs, all the Above + more accented characters + phonetics and transliteration needs

Adobe Latin Glyph List

Adobe Latin 1

Adobe Latin 2

Adobe Latin 3

Adobe Latin 4

Combined Characters Pre-composed Characters

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External links

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
Unicode and Glyph Names
- Adobe's explanatory material about heuristics for glyph naming/decoding and the use of AGL and AGLFN Glyphs Adobe typefaces