letter spacing
Text breath room
Letter spacing is the horizontal distance between characters in a line of text.
In typography and design, adjusting letter spacing affects readability and visual appeal: tighter spacing creates density, looser spacing adds elegance or emphasis.
The designer increased the letter spacing on the headline.
Also called tracking, though tracking typically refers to uniform adjustment across a text block while letter spacing can mean the space between any two characters.
- typefaceLettering style design
- legibilityClearness of text
- gapUnfilled space between
- spaceUnoccupied area or interval
- white spaceUnprinted page regions
word recognition · eye strain · tight · ligatures · baseline · x-height · ascender · loose · width · font weight · visual hierarchy · justified · typography · graphic design · text · design · stretch · body text
- graffititagging, throw-ups, throw-up, tag, pieces
- handwritingcursive, block letters, penmanship, print letters, legible
- telegraphytelegraph, Morse code, telegraphy, telegraph key, telegraph line
- typographyletters, font, calligraphy, font design, sans serif
- text readabilityfont size, contrast, clarity, serif, sans serif
- typesettingtypesetting, typesetter, leading, font, kerning
letter spacingline spacing
Distance between text rows
leading · word spacing · paragraph spacing · kerning · margins