Design Patterns Uncovered: The Flyweight Pattern 05.19.2010 Flyweight in the Real World The classic example of the Flyweight pattern is the representation of a character in a word processor. Rather than each character having seperate glyph objects that represent the font and formatting data, each character could have a reference to a flyweight glyph object shared by every instance of the same cahracter in the document. In this case, the character need only store it's position in the the document, rather than it's entire formatting information.
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