“kind of like a little foot,” that extends at the ends of letters. Georgia and Times are two examples of serif fonts. On the other hand, sans serif fonts lack the extra lines – “sans” me ...

Serif fonts, like Times New Roman and Garamond, have decorative “wings” and “feet” on letters — called serifs — that make the form more distinctive. These are considered best for ...

Developing a universal CJK font that evokes the same look and feel as, say, Times New Roman, is very hard to do. But that’s exactly what Jung's team has done with Noto Serif CJK. It’s a simple ...

Lato is perhaps the most unique and interesting sans-serif font on this list. It was designed by Łukasz Dziedzic and includes 10 styles. It goes from thin all the way to ultra-bold. The letters ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is replacing its Calibri default font with Aptos, a new ...

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 ...