letterspacing
nounEtymology From letter + spacing.
1
Media, Publishing, Typography Usually The amount of space between adjacent text characters.
2
Usually The practice of typing a letterspace in between the letters of a word (for emphasis) or an abbreviation (for delimitation), which in current orthographies and styles tends to be limited (to only certain uses).
- The typewritten identification papers from 1942 recorded the surname as A C K E R M A N N, with capitals and letterspacing.
- The typewritten memo from 1952 referred to the CIA as the C. I. A., with periods and letterspacing.
- Related terms
- white space, word space, kerning