| Subject | English | German |
| tech. | character width | Zeichenbreite |
| IT, dat.proc. | double-width character | doppeltbreiter Buchstabe |
| microel. | double-width character | Zeichen doppelter Breite |
| comp., MS | full-width character | Zeichen normaler Breite (In a double-byte character set, a character that is represented by 2 bytes and typically has a half-width variant) |
| comp., MS | half-width character | Zeichen halber Breite (In a double-byte character set, a character that is represented by one byte and typically has a full-width variant) |
| opt. | stroke width of the character | Strichstärke des Zeichens |
| opt. | stroke width of the character | Strichdicke des Zeichens |
| polygr. | width of a character | Dickte |