In the early days of digital screens, sans serif fonts were preferred to serif, as they improved legibility. The first digital typeface – Digi Grotesk – was designed by Rudolf Hell in 1968.

In the early days of digital screens, sans serif fonts were preferred to serif, as they improved legibility. The first ...

A sans-serif font is just what it sounds like–a typeface without serifs. In the image below, you can see two fonts that are frequently billed as among the web’s most readable.

“The 2010s was a time on a quest for simplicity and also the time when brands all started making their logos in plain sans serif grotesque style fonts like those for Balenciaga, Burberry, Saint ...

Designed by Paul D. Hunt, Source Sans Pro is the ultimate corporate-style sans-serif web font. It comes in a whopping 12 different styles with weights from extra-light all the way to ultra-bold.

, designed by Anamaria Morris, image by Ronald Ventura (Grove)In a design that’s as simple as this—a plain sans serif font paired with a single image—the image has to do a lot of the work ...

Sans serif fonts, which are plain, can appear modern and informal. Visual consistency gives readers a sense that they know where they stand; it helps to build trust.

Indeed, what they eventually created is a strange, hybrid font that borrows bits and pieces from all sorts of font types and families. Most egregiously, the uppercase “I” is a clean sans serif ...

Design trends are cyclical, and 10 years from now sans serif fonts will give consumers something else they want to see. Until then, I’ll be here — likely in a pink velvet armchair, ...

When Comic Sans was included in Windows 95, the world was starved for a relaxed, whimsical font, making the bubbly sans serif type face just the ticket. Or at least designer Vincent Connare ...

Times New Roman — which was named for The Times of London — is a serif font. Calibri chops off the limbs in what is known as a sans serif font.. Calibri and Times New Roman are two of the most ...