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Serif

In typography, a serif (/ˈsɛrɪf/) is a small line or stroke regularly attached to the end of a larger stroke in a letter or symbol within a particular font or family of fonts. A typeface or "font family" making use of serifs is called a serif typeface (or serifed typeface), like so, and a typeface that does not include them is sans-serif. Some typography…

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related to Bibliography · 127
Serif → Alfred, Ambrose University, Annotated, Arcade, Archived, Ashendene, BC, Brighton, British, Brooke Crutchley, Brush Writing, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Canada, Catich Gallery, Conspectus, Credit, Critical Guide, Daniel Berkeley Updike, Davenport
related to Gallery · 33
Serif → Aldus ManutiusTitle, Amazon Kindle, Amoretti Brothers, Amsterdam, Below, Christoffel, Clarendon, Claude GaramondGros Canon, Didone, DijckThe Romain, Dutch, Eric Gill, Fat, Firmin Didot, Garamond, Garamond1611, Hendrik, Humanist, Jenson, Joan Michaël Fleischman
related to Transitional · 27
Serif → Among, Because, Bulmer, Didone, Differences, Eaves, England, Fleischman, Fonts, France, Freight Text, John Baskerville, Low Countries, Many, Mrs, Noto Serif, Perpetua, Pierre Simon Fournier, Plantin, Pradell
related to Origins and etymology · 25
Serif → Accurate Formation, Another, Capital Letters Contained, Compleat, Complete Code, Elementary, Exemplification, Father Edward Catich, Forming, Greek, Latin, Letters, Mathematical Construction, Practical Appendix, Roman, Roman Alphabet, Same, Serifs, Systematic Rules, The
related to East Asia · 21
Serif → Because, China, Chinese, Hong Kong, However, In, In Chinese, In Japanese, In Mainland China, Japan, Japanese, Minchō, Ming, Mingti, Song, Songti, Taiwan, The, These, This
related to Didone · 18
Serif → As, Bodoni, Century, Computer Modern, Didone, Didot, Europe, European, Greece, Greek, Harper's Bazaar, In, Period, Serifs, The, These, They, Walbaum
related to Other styles · 11
Serif → Copperplate Gothic, During, Europe, France, Johnston Delf Smith, Latin, Méridien, These, Tuscan, Well-known, Wide Latin
related to Compared to blackletter · 9
Serif → After, Antiqua, Antiqua-based, Central European, Fraktur, Germany, In German, In Germany, Western Europe
related to Slab serif · 9
Serif → Because, Clarendon, Many, Originally, Others, Rockwell, Slab, These, While
related to Old-style · 8
Serif → An, Early, Gutenberg's, Italy, Johannes Gutenberg's, Old-style, Renaissance, The

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typefaces serifs type old-style transitional often didone style types sans-serif roman century printing fonts isbn lines designs used first many

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Arnoinstance ofModern typefaces0.80text
Trinité may fuse both styles.Earlyinstance ofModern typefaces0.80text
poetryinstance ofintended for informal uses0.80text
into taking a secondary role for emphasisinstance ofintended for informal uses0.80text
Harper's Bazaarinstance ofDidone fonts are often used on high-gloss magazine paper for magazines0.80text
where the paper retains the detail of their high contrast wellinstance ofDidone fonts are often used on high-gloss magazine paper for magazines0.80text
and for whose image a crispinstance ofDidone fonts are often used on high-gloss magazine paper for magazines0.80text
Chaparralinstance ofhas been applied to typefaces0.80text
Caeciliainstance ofhas been applied to typefaces0.80text
Tisainstance ofhas been applied to typefaces0.80text
with strong serifs but an outline structure with some influence of old-style serif typefaces.Other stylesDuring the 19th centuryinstance ofhas been applied to typefaces0.80text
genres of serif type besides conventional body text faces proliferatedinstance ofhas been applied to typefaces0.80text

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