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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “serif” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.