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Subject:Re: sans serif fonts From:"S. William Schulz" <swschulz -at- ASTRUM -dot- NET> Date:Thu, 24 Jul 1997 12:02:12 -0400
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, DWeber wrote:
> From what I understand, the meaning of sans serif is "with curves"
> right? So I would assume just by definition, that a serif font that
Without getting into the discussion, sans is Latin for without, and serif
refers to lines. Sans serif fonts are fonts without the fancy little
lines coming off the tops of the letters, e.g. the lowercase l, etc...
S. William Schulz
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