sidebearing

English

Etymology

side +‎ bearing

Noun

sidebearing (plural sidebearings)

(typography) The margin of empty space around a glyph in a font, measured from the glyph contour's leftmost, rightmost, topmost and bottommost points to the sides of its bounding box

Translations

margin of empty space

French: approche (fr) f
Hungarian: oldaltávolság

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