# `GSGlyphInfo.category`

*Instance Property*

The category of the glyph.

## Declaration

```swift
var category: String { get set }
```

```objc
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString * category;
```

[See also `category` in the Python API](https://docu.glyphsapp.com/#GSGlyphInfo.category)

```python
pyobjc_instanceMethods.category() -> str
pyobjc_instanceMethods.setCategory_(category: str)
```

## Discussion

This is mostly from the UnicodeData.txt file from unicode.org. Some corrections have been made (Accents, …) e.g: “Letter”, “Number”, “Punctuation”, “Mark”, “Separator”, “Symbol”, “Other”