serifs in English

noun
1
a slight projection finishing off a stroke of a letter in certain typefaces.
On paper it's easier to read serif fonts, because the serifs help the letters blend together and it is physically easier on the eyes and brain.
noun
    seriph

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1. Bely Text features balanced capitals and a play between large, triangular serifs at the top and thick, bracketed, rectangular serifs at the bottom.

2. 15 These are typefaces without serifs, otherwise known as sans serif.

3. Bely Text features balanced capitals and a play between large, triangular serifs at the top and thick, bracketed, rectangular serifs at the bottom.

4. Bely Text features balanced capitals and a play between large, triangular serifs at the top and thick, bracketed, rectangular serifs at the bottom.

5. Bely Text features balanced capitals and a play between large, triangular serifs at the top and thick, bracketed, rectangular serifs at the bottom.

6. These are typefaces without serifs, otherwise known as sans serif.

7. Square serif: Typeface with serifs the same weight or heavier than the main letter strokes.

8. So the sans serif, in the middle, sans the serifs, was much more economical, 81 to 151.

9. So you're a brilliant designer, a master calligrapher, and you've learned all about serifs, side-bearings, and kerning.

10. Bely succeeds by uniting these serifs in their stark geometry; it almost feels like Gataud constructed them with tangrams! In Bely’s four text styles, these serifs sit on top of a framework of simple, open forms with low contrast and a subtle diagonal axis

11. Broadside is a versatile, authoritative and functional family inspired by the sans serifs seen on ’40s and ’50s patriotic posters and period advertising

12. Blacker was developed as a take on the style that Jeremiah Shoaf has defined as the "evil serif" genre: typefaces with high contrast, oldstyle or modern serif proportions and sharp, blade-like triangular serifs.

13. Adorkable typography eschews the neutral sans and approachable serifs favored by blands, to jar the eye with mismatched fonts, eccentric emphasis and deliberately ill-set text — a maximalist approach that conjures the earliest incarnations (and juvenile overuse) of Microsoft WordArt.