Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fine line finishing off the main strokes of a letter, as at the top and bottom of M.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The short cross-line put as a finish at the ends of the terminating or unconnected strokes of roman or italic types, as in H, l, d, and y. Its form varies with the style of the type: in the Elzevir it is short and stubby; in some French styles
- n. it is long, flat, and slender; in the Scotch-face it is curved like a bracket on the inner side. See sans-serif.
Wiktionary
- n. typography A short line added to the tops and bottoms of traditional typefaces, such as Times Roman.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a short line at the end of the main strokes of a character
Etymologies
- Perhaps from Dutch schreef, line, from Middle Dutch scrēve, from scriven, to write, from Latin scrībere; see skrībh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Gerd Couckhuyt on 01 Apr 2009 at 11: 24 am # sans serif is verry bad copy … … shame on you if you want to copy … you have too look better”
“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.”
“Get the full body wax and spray-on tan and the tattoo in serif scarring your biceps.”
“Also, "serif" - fonts with little curlicues on the end - are a lot easier to read than "sans serif" fonts, like Helvetica.”
“The "serif" -- a cross-stroke or tick -- finishes the free ends of all lines used in making a Roman capital.”
“Most recently, some 2008 Silver Eagles with nominally updated design elements were instead released with the Reverse of 2007, most easily identified by the U (of UNITED) which does not have the right-side downward stroke (sometimes called a serif); the 2008 Reverse does have the downward stroke on the letter U. Additional Resources:”
“Most recently, some 2008 Silver Eagles with nominally updated design elements were instead released with the Reverse of 2007, most easily identified by the U (of UNITED) which does not have the right-side downward stroke (sometimes called a serif); the 2008 Reverse does have the downward stroke on the letter U.”
“For example, users can choose to sort fonts and create smart sets with keywords such as "serif," "cover sheet" or other user-defined words or phrases.”
“Perhaps under the influence of the Internet, someone chose to use a sans serif typeface, and to lay the paragraphs out like a business letter: in block form, with blank lines between them.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘serif’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Typography
An attempt to assemble all common typographic jargon.
typography, alignment, ascender, descender, baseline, boldface, bullet, cap height, glyph, condensed, digraph, backslant and 11 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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words found to be generally pleasing
alabaster, mahogany, camphor, coalesce, spire, portmanteau, gadabout, palaver, dolor, dour, dun, luminesce and 610 more...
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madmelanie's Words
monkey, folderol, snark, snarky, flibbertigibbet, faith, asshat, pirouette, avuncular, exegesis, memento mori, verisimilitude and 379 more...
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cutting words
sarcasm, sarx, sarcoptic, syssarcosis, shrew, shrewd, screed, scred, shroud, scroll, scrod, scrutiny and 326 more...
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Damieng's Words
lupine, sapor, boz imp, imp, ovine, saracen, haberdashery, tiebar, shill, cutler, cutaway, lucite and 218 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DREAD
Words That Make Sense in Reverse Too! Bad news for a dyslexic, 'cause s/he's got no clue if s/he read the word correctly or not, as opposed to a palindrome (i.e., no mistake possible, cf. "Dyslexic...
tool, lever, nap, pool, leer, leek, desserts, strop, doom, ukiah, yaws, ward and 213 more...
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lee_d's Words
neologism, epicaricacy, chillax, arrears, locution, ressentiment, facticity, glib, escritoire, epicurian, alacrity, arbitrageur and 150 more...
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hober's Words
anglosphere, wiki, slither, cylon, satchel, faustian, ragamuffin, frak, salient, fervid, tartan, snowclone and 299 more...
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grassdog's Words
schadenfreude, sanguine, nefarious, verisimilitude, antediluvian, salacious, obfuscate, plethora, cacophony, defenestration, vacillate, blasphemy and 478 more...
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implify's Words
gaia, eviscerate, lament, ephemeral, urbane, blight, variant, schadenfreude, hubbub, iteration, feign, hobgoblin and 243 more...
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characters
asperand - @
tilde - ~
forward slash,virgule,solidus - /
pilcrow- ¶
obelus - ÷
tittle - A small diacritic mark, such as an accent, vowel mark, or dot over an i.
asperand, tittle, octothorp, octothorpe, hash mark, pound sign, number sign, ogonek, serif, ceriph, seriph
Tweets
Looking for tweets for serif.
jasl Serifs 'finish off' their letters, making them more comfortable to read. Besides, they are characters with character. Sep 9, 2010
oroboros Fires in reverse. Jul 22, 2007