Stylistic sets (sometimes written as style sets) are groupings of alternate glyphs that allow the user to switch on (via OpenType) sets of related alternate glyphs one at a time.
According to the personal tastes of the type designer or foundry, each style set might contain multiple alternate glyphs (like a different “a,” “g,” and “z”) or the set might be limited to just one character.
If the type designer goes to the trouble of giving their stylistic sets human-readable names, they may be named according to the characters they modify rather than the default set names.
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