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Serifs
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Date: 30 July 2010
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A Serif typeface is characterised by a counterstroke at the end of each character's main stroke. Often, thick and thin strokes are used in the same character. These strokes take various forms including Old Style Serifs, Transitional Serifs, Modern or Didone Serifs, Copperplate Serifs, Glyphic or Wedge Serifs and Classic Roman Serifs. Serif typefaces are generally considered more ledgible for reading bulk text passages as the very serifs in letterforms cause the eye to move quicker across words. The most widely used typeface in print today, Times Roman, is a classic, slightly condensed Serif face with brilliant ledibility.
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| Classic Roman Serifs |  | Classical Roman/Monumental Serif fonts are based upon Monument Classical Roman lettering in shape and most importantly proportion, usually only capitals are ava... [more] | | Copperplate Serifs |  | Copperplate Serif fonts have the appearance of Sans Serifs, but fine pointed serifs give them a serif functionality. They are part of a major category of typefa... [more] | | Glyphic/Wedge Serifs |  | Wedge/Glyphic Serif fonts are distinguished by the wedge-shaped, glyphic serifs with the junction of the serif and the stem being a diagonal rather than a brack... [more] | | Modern/Didone Serifs |  | Modern/Didone Serif fonts are distinguished by high contrast between the thick and thin strokes. The stress is vertical and there is very little bracketing, ge... [more] | | Old Style Serifs |  | Old Style Serif fonts are distinguished by left inclined stress and generally a reduced contrast between the thick and thin strokes, serifs of the lower case ar... [more] | | Transitional Serifs |  | Transitional Serif fonts are distinguished by a vertical stress and ascenders are usually angled. The bracketing is more noticeably open than earlier groups. La... [more] | | Arabic Serif |  | Arabic Script is written from right to left and requires an Arabic Operating System. These are included as standard in modern Macintosh, Windows, UNIX and LINUX... [more] | | Central European Serif |  | Central European Fonts include the unique characters required in the Polish, Czech, Slovac, Hungarian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Albanian, Croatian, Romani... [more] | | Cyrillic Serif |  | Cyrillic Fonts include the unique characters required in the Byelorussian, Ukrainian, Serbian and Macedonian languages in addition to the Russian language, plus... [more] | | Greek Serif |  | Greek Fonts are available in two layouts: Monotonic [Greek], and Polytonic [GreekP]. Monotonic fonts contain modern Greek and Latin [ASCII] character sets, wher... [more] | | Hebrew & Armenian Serif |  | Hebrew is written from right to left and can be used with or withour accents. At present the only scripts available are without accents and casn be used without... [more] |
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