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- Origins and etymology
- Classification
- Old-style <span class="anchor" id=""Old Style""></span>
- Dutch taste
- Transitional
- Didone
- Slab serif
- Other styles
- Readability and legibility
- Gallery
- Analogues in other writing systems
- East Asia
- Thai
- Compared to blackletter
- See also
- Lists of serif typefaces
- Notes
- Citations
- Bibliography
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In typography, a serif () 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), and a typeface that does not include them is sans-serif. Some typography sources refer to sans-serif typefaces as "grotesque" (in German, ) or "Gothic" (although this often refers to blackletter type as well). In German usage, the term Antiqua is used more broadly for serif types.