letterspacing

Etymology

From letter + spacing.

letterspacing means the amount of space between adjacent text characters. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 93 out of 100.

noun

The amount of space between adjacent text characters.
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.”