sans serif

See also: sans-serif

English

A serif font and a sans serif one.

Alternative forms

• sanserif, sans-serif

Etymology

From sans + serif.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌsæn(z) ˈsɛɹɪf/, /ˌsɑ̃ ˈsɛɹɪf/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌsæn(z) ˈsɛɹɪf/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

sans serif (plural sans serifs)

1. (typography) A typeface in which the characters do not have serifs.

   Antonym: serif

Adjective

sans serif (not comparable)

1. (typography) Of a typeface, without serifs.

   Synonyms: serifless, nonserif

   • 2008, Clay Shirky, Gin, Television, and Cognitive Surplus‎^[1]:

     If you have some sans-serif fonts on your computer, you can play this game, too.

Translations

without serifs

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Assamese: অনাচেৰিফ (onaseriph), অনা-চেৰিফ (ona-seriph)
• Catalan: pal sec
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無襯線字體 / 无衬线字体 (zh) (wú chènxiàn zìtǐ), 黑體 / 黑体 (zh) (hēitǐ)

• Czech: bezpatkový m
• Dutch: schreefloos (nl)
• Finnish: päätteetön, sans-serif (fi), groteski (fi)
• French: linéal (fr)
• German: serifenlos (de)
• Hebrew: סנס–סריף (sans-sérif), ללא תגים (l'ló tagím)
• Hungarian: talpatlan, groteszk (hu)
• Indonesian: sans serif
• Japanese: サンセリフ (ja) (sanserifu)
• Korean: 산세리프 (sanseripeu)
• Macedonian: бессе́рифен (bessérifen)
• Polish: bezszeryfowy (pl)
• Portuguese: sem serifa
• Russian: без засе́чек (bez zaséček)
• Spanish: palo seco (es), paloseco (es), sin serifas, sin serifa
• Tibetan: སྤྲོས་མེད (spros med)

See also

• Gill Sans
• slab serif

Anagrams

• sanserifs

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism

Noun

sans serif (plural sans-sans serif)

1. (typography) sans serif

Further reading

• “sans serif”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016