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# CTGlyphInfo

Override a font’s specified mapping from Unicode to the glyph ID.

```
class CTGlyphInfo
```

## Topics

### Getting the GlyphInfo Type

[`CTGlyphInfoGetTypeID()`](/documentation/CoreText/CTGlyphInfoGetTypeID())

Returns the Core Foundation type identifier of the glyph info object

### Creating GlyphInfo Objects

[`CTGlyphInfoCreateWithGlyphName(_:_:_:)`](/documentation/CoreText/CTGlyphInfoCreateWithGlyphName(_:_:_:))

Creates an immutable glyph info object with a glyph name.

[`CTGlyphInfoCreateWithGlyph(_:_:_:)`](/documentation/CoreText/CTGlyphInfoCreateWithGlyph(_:_:_:))

Creates an immutable glyph info object with a glyph index.

[`CTGlyphInfoCreateWithCharacterIdentifier(_:_:_:)`](/documentation/CoreText/CTGlyphInfoCreateWithCharacterIdentifier(_:_:_:))

Creates an immutable glyph info object with a character identifier.

### Getting GlyphInfo Data

[`CTGlyphInfoGetGlyphName(_:)`](/documentation/CoreText/CTGlyphInfoGetGlyphName(_:))

Retrieves the glyph name for a glyph info object, if that object exists.

[`CTGlyphInfoGetCharacterIdentifier(_:)`](/documentation/CoreText/CTGlyphInfoGetCharacterIdentifier(_:))

Gets the character identifier for a glyph info object.

[`CTGlyphInfoGetCharacterCollection(_:)`](/documentation/CoreText/CTGlyphInfoGetCharacterCollection(_:))

Gets the character collection for a glyph info object.

[`CTGlyphInfoGetGlyph(_:)`](/documentation/CoreText/CTGlyphInfoGetGlyph(_:))

Retrieves the glyph for a glyph info, if that object exists.

### Constants

[`CTCharacterCollection`](/documentation/CoreText/CTCharacterCollection)

Constants that specify character collections.


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