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From left to right: a serif typeface with serifs in red, a serif typeface, and a sans-serif typeface. In the Chinese and Japanese writing systems, there are common type styles based on the regular script for Chinese characters akin to serif and sans serif fonts in the West.
This list of samples of serif typefaces details standard serif fonts used in printing, classical typesetting and printing. List of samples
Typographers also speak of an instroke, where one starts writing the letter, as at the top of a c f, and an outstroke, where the pen leaves off, as at the bottom of c e j k t y. [5] A main vertical stroke is a stem. The letter m has three, the left, middle, and right stems. The central stroke of an s is known as the spine. [6]
A sample of the typeface Rockwell, a slab serif face based on the geometric model. A sample of the typeface Courier, a slab serif face based on strike-on typewriting faces. Slab serif lettering and typefaces appeared rapidly in the early nineteenth century, having little in common with previous letterforms.
While simple sans-serif letters have always been common in "uncultured" writing and sometimes even in epigraphy, [36] such as basic handwriting, most artistically-authored letters in the Latin alphabet, both sculpted and printed, since the Middle Ages have been inspired by fine calligraphy, blackletter writing and Roman square capitals.
The numeral 7: The traditional form found in copperplate penmanship begins with a serif at the upper left and has a wavy horizontal stroke (like a swash). In East Asian countries (Korea, China and Japan), this numeral is commonly written with such a serif, but no swash and no crossbar through the middle.
A proportion of writing systems are bicameral, distinguishing between two parallel sets of letters that vary in use based on prescribed grammar or convention. These sets of letters are known as cases. The larger case is called uppercase or capitals (also known as majuscule) and the smaller case is called lowercase (also known as minuscule).
Sans serif text typefaces (without serifs) often are used for introductory paragraphs, incidental text, and whole short articles. A fashion at the end of the twentieth century was to pair a sans-serif typeface for headings with a high-performance serif typeface of matching style for the text of an article.