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What makes an icon different from other typographic elements? it doesn’t contain any characters it only communicates a single sound it has no ascenders or descenders it doesn’t include double glyphs

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Answer: it doesn’t contain any characters.

Explanation: an icon is a pictorial/symbolic graphic, not a typographic character that encodes a letter or sound. Ascenders/descenders and “double glyphs” are properties of letters/glyphs, not pictorial icons (though note icons can be stored as glyphs in icon fonts, they still function as imagery rather than alphabetic characters).