Meat (typography)

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In typography, meat is the area around individual characters that is not to be printed . This includes the free space above and below the characters so that characters standing one below the other do not touch, as well as the leading and trailing widths . Punches are not part of the meat .

The meat is not to be confused with the word space or the typographical white space .

Web links

  • Dietrich Boles: Typography on techfak.uni-bielefeld.de , July 14, 1997.