A serif is a delicate little point (aka flare or terminating flourish) at the end of a letter stroke. In the image above, ...

Georgia, a Microsoft staple, is a rounded and reliable serif choice with horizontal top serifs that are easier to spot on a ...

How the sans serif rose from obscurity to become the go-to font of the 21st century digital age.

When it comes to web fonts, designers have many options to choose from. Google Fonts library has over 600 font families, but many of those are unversatile and unsuitable for body copy. Here are ...

When modernism became the dominant aesthetic during the mid-20th century, its sleeker-looking, sans serif fonts came to symbolize ideas of a contemporary cutting edge.

A sans-serif font is just what it sounds like–a typeface without serifs. In the image below, you can see two fonts that are frequently billed as among the web’s most readable.

Now locate DroidSerif-Regular.ttf, and tap on it. Then pick one of the fonts you've chosen—in my case, I changed it to Roboto, the sans serif font that comes with Android 4.0. (You can get it here).

Sans-serif typefaces have been in circulation since at least the 18th century. (Serifs are the little lines that decorate the ends of letters in fonts. Sans serifs omit them.) Minimalist design in ...

Usually, sans serif fonts tend to be more accessible than those with serifs, but there are exceptions, as our shortlist shows.