Popular serif fonts include Times New Roman, Courier, Schoolbook, and Palatino.Ī typeface without serifs is called sans serif, from the French “ sans,” meaning “without.” Popular sans serif fonts include Helvetica, Myriad, Arial, and Geneva. A typeface with serifs is called a serif typeface (or serifed typeface). In typography, there are two primary types of typefaces – serif typefaces and sans serif typefaces.Ī serif is a small line attached to the end of a stroke in a letter or symbol. In practice, font and typeface are often used without much precision, sometimes interchangeably. Thus, Helvetica is a typeface family, Helvetica italic is a typeface and Helvetica italic 10-point is a font. The type design for a set of fonts is the typeface and variations of this design form the typeface family. A font is a set of printable or displayable text characters in a specific style and size.
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