Difference between sans-serif and serif font

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Summary

When designing web content, developers frequently choose between sans-serif and serif font families. The core difference is that serif fonts feature small decorative lines or strokes at the ends of characters, while sans-serif fonts, meaning "without serifs," have clean, plain character endings. Examples like Arial and Verdana represent sans-serif, whereas Times New Roman and Georgia are classic serif fonts. Understanding this distinction helps in categorizing fonts and making informed design decisions for web pages.

When we design website, we will often need to choose which font to use while displaying contents on the page. Basically what's the criteria for the choice? There are two big families of fonts : sans-serif and serif. We need to first understand what the difference is between these two.

The word sans is from French, the meaning of it is without. So the difference between sans-serif and serif is serif font will have lines in all ends of the character while sans-serif fonts don't have.

Some examples of sans-serif fonts are: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma,Impact. Some examples of serif fonts are : Times New Roman,Georgia Garamound, Century Schoolbook.

Sans-serif font

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Serif font

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Hope you know the difference now, so next time you know which category font family one font belongs to by checking whether it has ends.

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