allographs

allographs
n. variant shape of an alphabet letter (such as: "a" or "A"; "m" or "M"); letter or combination of letters which is one of many ways of representing one phoneme (e.g.: "pp" in the word "hopping" represents the phoneme "p"); writing or signature written down by someone else; legal document not in the writing of any of the parties to it

English contemporary dictionary. 2014.

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