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Tracking

Also called Letterspacing, Letter-spacing

Adding or removing space evenly across a run of letters, as opposed to fixing one pair.

Tracking: a letter in the house face with the tracking marked in vermilion.
Tracking, drawn, Drew Ink. Drawn 2026-09-09.
Tracking: a letter in Drew Slab Regular with the tracking marked in vermilion.
Tracking, drawn, in Drew Slab Regular, Drew Ink. Drawn 2026-09-29.

Near it

KerningSmall capsMeasureSidebearing

What it is made of

what it isspace 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 shelfthe 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 1measured 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 fitDrew 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 142a 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