Tracking
Also called Letterspacing, Letter-spacing
Adding or removing space evenly across a run of letters, as opposed to fixing one pair.
Near it
What it is made of
| what it is | space added to or taken from every pair at once, on top of the fit the face was drawn with | |
| the fit it is added TO, measured on this shelf | the n's two sidebearings over its own advance: 0.1558 on Drew Extended, the tightest, to 0.3098 on Drew Mono, the loosest, a spread of 1.99 to 1 | measured over the 23 house families, Regular, on the fixed shelf, 2026-09-29. The 0.1584 on Drew Poster and 0.3189 this row carried were measured on a build replaced before it shipped |
| and the loosest is loose for a reason that is not a choice about fit | Drew Mono is the monospaced face: a narrow letter is padded out to the fixed advance, so its n-to-o gap is 292 units where the rest of the shelf sits between 122 and 142 | a figure that is the largest in a column is not always the same KIND of thing as the ones under it, and this row says which |
Kerning
Small caps
Measure
Sidebearing