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Sans-serif typefaces have become the most prevalent for display of text on computer screens. On lower-resolution digital displays, fine details like serifs may disappear or appear too large. The term comes from the French word sans, meaning "without" and "serif" of uncertain origin, possibly from the Dutch word schreef meaning "line" or pen ...
Lato is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Łukasz Dziedzic. It was released in 2010. [3] The name "Lato" is Polish for "summer". [4] Lato was published under the open-source Open Font License. [5] In August 2018, Lato is used on more than 9.6 million websites, and is the third most served font on Google Fonts, with over one billion ...
This list of samples of serif typefaces details standard serif fonts used in printing, classical typesetting and printing. List of samples ...
Typography, i.e. the use of fonts, on Wikipedia can often be a source of heated debates. This is because Wikipedia has never set an explicit font in its default skin. This was true for Monobook, and still holds for Vector. The base font for these skins are simply defined as font-family: sans-serif. Likewise, the size of fonts are also subject ...
Rockwell is a slab serif typeface designed by the Monotype Corporation and released in 1934. [1] [2] The project was supervised by Monotype's engineering manager Frank Hinman Pierpont. This typeface is distinguished by a serif at the apex of the uppercase A, while the lowercase a has two storeys.
Slab serif fonts vary considerably: some such as Rockwell have a geometric design with minimal variation in stroke width—they are sometimes described as sans-serif fonts with added serifs. Others such as those of the "Clarendon" model have a structure more like most other serif fonts, though with larger and more obvious serifs.
Arno, or Arno Pro, is a serif type family created by Robert Slimbach at Adobe intended for professional use. [3] The name refers to the river that runs through Florence, a centre of the Italian Renaissance. Arno is an old-style serif font, drawing inspiration from a variety of 15th and 16th century typefaces. [4]
Klavika is a family of sans-serif fonts designed by Eric Olson and released by Process Type Foundry in 2004. It contains four weights: light, regular, medium, and bold (with corresponding italics) and variations of numerals.