Etymology

sidebearing

S1I1D2E1B3E1A1R1I1N1G2

Today it means: 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 Full definition →

Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok