sidebearing

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sidebearing

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From side + bearing.

noun sidebearings

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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noun margin of empty space

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"sidebearing." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sidebearing. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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sidebearing. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sidebearing

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"sidebearing." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sidebearing.

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@misc{sidebearing_2026,
  title = {sidebearing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sidebearing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}