word spacing
Between-letter blank distances
Word spacing is the horizontal distance between words in text.
Proper word spacing makes reading easier—too little and words blur together, too much and the eye struggles to connect them into sentences.
In typography and design, word spacing can be adjusted for aesthetic effect or to justify text margins.
The word spacing in that old manuscript is inconsistent.
- trackingMonitoring location over time
- typographyArranging letters for display
- whitespaceUnprintable gap characters
- justificationReason proving rightness
- gapUnfilled space between
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