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(DefinING Blog About Typographic Specifications)
Serifs are the little lines at the ends of the strokes in some letters. They come in different sizes and styles. Here are but a few. Most every font can be broken down into either Serif or Sans-Serif.
(*Note - Sans means “without,” so a sans-serif font has no serifs.)
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