sans serif
Clean typeface style
Sans serif describes a typeface without the small projecting strokes at the ends of letters.
Serif fonts like Times New Roman have these decorative feet; sans serif fonts like Helvetica and Arial do not.
Sans serif faces dominate digital interfaces and modern design, prized for clean lines and readability at small sizes.
The term comes from French: sans means "without."
Neutral sans-serif typeface
One favoring bare essentials
- modernOf recent times
- cleanFree of soil
- streamlinedMade smooth and efficient
- unadornedLacking decoration or ornament
neutral · functional · Swiss design · Bauhaus · contemporary · corporate · utilitarian · industrial
Distorted, bizarre figure
Edge-smoothing rendering technique
- legibilityClearness of text
- Google FontsFree hosted typeface service
- accessibilityEase of approach
- hintingSuggesting indirectly
Functionalist architecture movement, 1920s
- nineteenth centuryYears 1801-1900
- modernist designStripped-down, geometric aesthetic movement
Helvetica
Neutral sans-serif typeface
Verdana · Calibri · Montserrat
minimalist
One favoring bare essentials
- modernOf recent times
- cleanFree of soil
- streamlinedMade smooth and efficient
unadorned · neutral · functional · Swiss design · Bauhaus · contemporary · corporate · utilitarian · industrial · stark
grotesque
Distorted, bizarre figure
antialiasing
Edge-smoothing rendering technique
- legibilityClearness of text
- Google FontsFree hosted typeface service
- accessibilityEase of approach
International Style
Functionalist architecture movement, 1920s
- nineteenth centuryYears 1801-1900
- modernist designStripped-down, geometric aesthetic movement
- typesettingtypesetting, typesetter, leading, font, kerning
- Hebrew scriptaleph, shin, Hebrew alphabet, vocalization, pointing
- graphic designlogo, font, typography, layout, color
- handwritingcursive, block letters, penmanship, print letters, legible
- tipografiafont
- typographyletters, font, calligraphy, font design, typefaces