Sidebearing
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sidebearing is a noun meaning (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.
Meaning
(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.
Word Forms
- sidebearings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bleeding edge, margin, side, neatline, borderzone, offset.
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