Entry 07 · the alphabet of motion
A single visible representation of a character — the smallest readable unit of type.
CSS @keyframes · glyph
The long entry
Animating type is animating glyphs. When letters fade, slide, scramble or split, you are operating per-glyph. Modern web tools (CSS @scope, JS split-text libraries) make this trivial; the craft is in the choreography between letters, not the move on any one.