Tracking: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Typography

In typography, tracking is the process of uniformly increasing or decreasing the space between all glyphs (letters) in a block of text. It is commonly confused with kerning, but these are two separate concepts.

Tracking is sometimes called character spacing or letter spacing, especially in reference to computer typesetting.

A related concept is that of word spacing, which uniformly increases or decreases the space between words.

Tracking is the action of a dog following a scent trail. In dog sports, there are tracking competitions.

Tracking is the art of creating tracking modules for the computer representation of music.