sidebearing

English

Etymology

From side +‎ bearing.

Noun

sidebearing (plural sidebearings)

  1. (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

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