Allograph

This article is about the term used in graphemics and typography. For the practice of writing one language in the script of another, see Garshunography. For the meaning of the term in the law of agency, see Law of agency § Allograph.

⟨g⟩ rendered with or without a looptail are allographs of each other

In graphemics and typography, the term allograph is used of a glyph that is a design variant of a letter or other grapheme, such as a letter, a number, an ideograph, a punctuation mark or other typographic symbol.