Whitespace

blank area that separates words, sentences, syllables, or other written or printed glyphs; precise typographical rules differ according to language and context

space character that prevents an automatic line break at its position

thumb|Kerning brings A and V closer, with their serifs over each other. thumb|right|alt=Top: The word "FLICK" in all caps, typeset in sans-serif. Bottom: With reduced spacing between letters, the L and I appear to merge together into a U, causing the word to instead read as "FUCK".|Poor kerning (referred to informally as keming) may, in a worst-case scenario, result in unwanted words being read. In typography, kerning is the process of adjusting the space between two specific characters, or letterforms, in a font. It is not to be confused with tracking, by which spacing is adjusted uniformly o

control character, or mechanism, used to reset a device's position to the beginning of a line of text

thumb|A newline inserted between the words "Hello" and "world" A newline (frequently called line ending, end of line (EOL), next line (NEL) or line break) is a control character or sequence of control characters in character encoding specifications such as ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, etc. A newline is used to signify the end of a line of text and the start of a new one.

esoteric programming language

In typography, leading ( ) is the space between adjacent lines of type; the exact definition varies.

zero-width space (U+200B), commonly abbreviated “ZWSP”, intended for invisible word separation and for line break control; it has no width, but its presence between two characters does not prevent increased letter spacing in justification

physical spacing of visible character glyphs of a text rendered on a support

separator for character strings (e.g. between words or expressions)

white space that is wholly enclosed by the stroke of a handwritten or typographic letterform

soft hyphen (U+00AD): format control character normally invisible, which indicates a break position within a word; if the word break is applied, the character is displayed as a hyphen at end of line before the break

metal spacer used in typography

horizontal space between sentences in typeset text

space character ​about ⅕ of an em wide