serif
সেরিফ
definition
noun
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.
a slight projection finishing off a stroke of a letter in certain typefaces.
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Almost all use a 'serif' face for body type.
Large blocks of small text, such as document body text in printed documents, are easier to read if 'serif' fonts are used.
By Winter 1964, the The in the title disappeared, and the shortened name got a 'serif' type treatment that endured for a decade.
The original version had 'serif' numbering, although the typeface was later changed to a sans-serif style.
More superficially, I like paperbacks, modern typefaces and striking covers, though I dare say I should attempt to retreat from my prejudice against anything written in a 'serif' font in favour of more considered judgements on content.
A 'serif' font style is easier to read in body copy than a sans serif style.
A 'serif' face would have been gentler on the eyes, although it would have probably taken more space.
Headlines are split between 'serif' and sans serif faces.
Meanwhile, many texts have been happily read in sans serif typefaces, and other texts are hard to read because the 'serif' typeface chosen is just plain hard to read, or badly set.
So the type is too small, and I prefer a 'serif' font for screen reading.
Most importantly they don't have the resolution needed to properly render highly legible 'serif' typefaces like Times and Garamond.
The font used on the cover and throughout the book is a 'serif' font with distinctive, thick slab ends - a kind of conservative font appropriate for a school textbook.
It makes a nice contrast with the 'serif' fonts we use for body text, and manages to convey both the technical expertise and relative newness of the company.
On the other hand, I'm quite up for sans-serif body text on screen, thinking that such a low resolution doesn't do justice to 'serifs' .
In the context of a 'seriffed' font, the euro symbol will be seriffed, too.
That's a cool, subtly 'seriffed' font.
And no, 'serifs' has not become ‘un-cool’, quite the opposite I'd say…
Have the guidelines for the electronic environment been validated, or are they like the ‘truism’ that a typeface with 'serifs' is more readable than one without them?
The 'serifs' , though distracting to a small minority, allow the reader to glance over words at an alarming pace.
At the end of the strokes - see, here - there are decorative turns; 'serifs' , really.
This version has a more archaic look due to the sharpness of its 'serifs' , and so it's a little different from the run of the mill serif font but deferential in its treatment of the cover, not too flashy to detract from the central image.
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.
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