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A letter or style of monotonal type without smaller lines used to finish off a main stroke of a letter, as at the top and bottom of the letter "M".

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Usage examples (5)
  • I wish the printer down in Backgrounding didn't have this fuzzy sanserif typeface ...
  • Upon opening them, I found myself staring at a small, six-inch black plate with Daniel Kearney inscribed in white sanserif text.
  • OUP Swift is a seriffed family, OUP Argo a sanserif family, and both have full ranges of constituent fonts; small capitals, for example, are available in both typeface...
  • The seriffed–sanserif contrast can be used to separate definitions (seriffed) from metalanguage (sanserif), providing an axis of contrast analogous to the ‘bold...
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