When you're embarking on a new creative project, typography design is one of the most important things to consider. But with so many fonts to choose from – even if you only stick to free fonts ...

Most commonly used fonts can be broken into two types: serifs and san-serifs. Serif fonts, like Times New Roman and Garamond, have decorative “wings” and “feet” on letters — called ...

Georgia and Times are two examples of serif fonts. On the other hand, sans serif fonts lack the extra lines – “sans” meaning “without” in French. Examples are Helvetica and Arial.

The U.S. State Department is going sans serif: It has directed staff at home and overseas to phase out the Times New Roman font and adopt Calibri in official communications and memos, in a bid to ...

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The main flavor of Aptos is a sans-serif font—described by Matteson as "Helvetica" but with "a bit of a human touch" that makes it "more approachable and less institutional." But like Apple's ...

But in practice, “font” is often used as a synonym for “typeface,” including by Microsoft employees interviewed for this article.) The big divide in the world of typeface is between serif ...

We’d say Łukasz Dziedzic achieved his goal, and created a simple, clean and elegant sans-serif font that looks great at any size, and comes with a large family of styles suitable for most needs.

A 12-point Arial is a different font than a 14-point Arial, but they use the same typeface of Arial.) The long-running divide: serif v. sans serif One debate has taken place over typefaces that ...