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Sans-serif lettering and typefaces were popular due to their clarity and legibility at distance in advertising and display use, when printed very large or small. Because sans-serif type was often used for headings and commercial printing, many early sans-serif designs did not feature lower-case letters.
- List of Sans Serif Typefaces
Samples of sans-serif typefaces Typeface name Example 1...
- Sans serif
In typography, a sans serif typeface is one that does not...
- List of Sans Serif Typefaces
Jun 12, 2008 · In typography, a sans-serif or sans serif typeface is one that does not have the small features called " serifs " at the end of strokes. The term comes from the French word sans, meaning "without". In print, sans-serif fonts are more typically used for headlines than for body text. [1] The conventional wisdom is that serifs help guide the eye ...
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Consequently, it is sometimes advised to use sans-serif fonts for content meant to be displayed on screens, as they scale better for low resolutions. Indeed, most web pages employ sans-serif type. Recent introduction of desktop displays with 300+ dpi resolution might eventually make this recommendation obsolete.
- Edward Catich
- 1968
Aug 22, 2011 · Sans Serif. One could argue that the sans serif typeface existed as far back as ancient times—by their means of execution early chiseled faces were constructed from strokes with unadorned endings. But in reality it was the late 19th century when type designers deliberately decided to design faces that were without (sans) serifs.
sans serif, in printing, a style of roman letter stripped of its serif— i.e., such embellishments as the vertical line at the end of the top right and lower left curved segments of the letter “s,” the base line on which the lowercase “n,” “m,” and “l” rest, etc. Though the concept of such a type has challenged recent designers ...
