sanserif

The seriffed–sanserif contrast can be used to separate definitions (seriffed) from metalanguage (sanserif), providing an axis of contrast analogous to the ‘bold for look-up items, normal weight for text’ that readers are used to.

Not Just a Pretty Face: The Contribution of Typography to Lexicography Paul Luna 2009

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 families in all weights and style variants.

Not Just a Pretty Face: The Contribution of Typography to Lexicography Paul Luna 2009

The seriffed–sanserif contrast can be used to separate definitions (seriffed) from metalanguage (sanserif), providing an axis of contrast analogous to the ‘bold for look-up items, normal weight for text’ that readers are used to.

Archive 2009-02-01 Paul Luna 2009

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 families in all weights and style variants.

Archive 2009-02-01 Paul Luna 2009

Upon opening them, I found myself staring at a small, six-inch black plate with Daniel Kearney inscribed in white sanserif text.

absentia Diary Entry absentia 2002

I wish the printer down in Backgrounding didn't have this fuzzy sanserif typeface ...

Galaxy Jane Goulart, Ron, 1933- 1986

J.P. Morgan is there, in square green block capitals; Gracie Fields in sloping black ones; Jack Hulbert in heliotrope Roman; Baden-Powell in bold blue sanserif; Arnold Bennett (rather surprisingly) in ecclesiastical Gothic; and Ian Hay in what I can only describe as yellow rococo.

Try Anything Twice 1938

This site fails utterly - using various misaligned oblique, outline, script, serif, sanserif and ornamental fonts.

FrontPage Magazine 2010