sidebearing

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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

Word forms

sidebearing sidebearings

Etymology

From side + bearing.

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