sidebearings

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A form of sidebearing — 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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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of sidebearing
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APA

sidebearings. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sidebearings

MLA

“sidebearings.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sidebearings. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sidebearings,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sidebearings.

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