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Side Bearings

Side Bearings

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A side bearing is the distance between a glyph’s side and its bounding box. In scripts written horizontally, there is always a left side bearing (LSB) and a right side bearing (RSB). Managing the side bearing values is working on the spacing of the typeface.

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