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n. - A short line at the end of the main strokes of a character.

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  • Get the full body wax and spray-on tan and the tattoo in serif scarring your biceps.
  • Put it this way: if you want to look cool, funky, trendy, contemporary, casual, relax, then san serif is the font.
  • In all my research on the Great Legibility Debate, I found absolutely no convincing research showing that sans serif is easier to read.
  • The "serif" -- a cross-stroke or tick -- finishes the free ends of all lines used in making a Roman capital.
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