sidebearing

English

Etymology

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

Translations

margin of empty space

• French: approche (fr) f
• Hungarian: oldaltávolság