| Subject | English | German |
| comp. | character spacing | Zeichenlücke |
| tech. | character spacing | Zeichenabstand |
| comp., MS | character spacing | Zeichenabstand (The distance between characters in a line of text. Tracking, kerning, and scaling can be used to adjust the space between characters) |
| tech. | character spacing | Zeichenmittenabstand |
| comp. | character spacing | Abstand zwischen Zeichen |
| IT | character spacing reference line | Zeichenabstandsbezugslinie |
| IT, dat.proc. | characters spacing | Zeichenabstand |
| comp., MS | non-spacing character | Zeichen ohne Zwischenraum (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| comp. | non-spacing character | Zeichen ohne Vorschub |
| comp., MS | spacing character | Leerzeichen (A character with a non-zero width) |