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Typography Terms – Glossary and Dictionary

Right sidebearing | Definition and Translations
The distance between the right side of the glyph’s width and the right side of the visual glyph design. If the glyph design exceeds the width of the glyph, the sidebearing values can also be negative.

German: Nachbreite [bei rechtsläufigen Schriften]

Spanish: Entorno derecho, prosa derecha

Related Term(s): Left sidebearing

By Ralf Herrmann (July 5, 2015)
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Academy Lessons linking to this term:

A: How to set type tracking

F1: How to judge font quality
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