My understanding is that a symbol in typography is often called a glyph. There are cases when one glyph is composed of multiple “components” with space in between them, e.g.
:,;, etc.Is there any name for these “components” (e.g. one dot in a colon)?
Answer
Most parts of letters are named, and there are some terms which only apply to a single letter. For example the spine of the S.
Here is a good article to read.
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