There are serif fonts and sans serif font comparison _ Experience Exchange

Serif means that there are additional decorations at the beginning and end of the pen, and that the coarse details of the pen are different depending on the vertical horizontal. On the contrary, sans serif does not have these extra decorations, and the brush is roughly the same.

Like Times, Times New Roman, etc. are all serif, and Arial and Helvetica are the characters of sans Serif.

Serif and Sans serif general comparison

• Serif's handwriting is easier to recognize and therefore easier to read. Conversely sans serif is more eye-catching, but in the context of reading, sans serif easy to cause the letter recognition of the confusion, often there will be back to re-read and up and down the wrong situation.
• Serif The beginning and end of the alphabet, making it easier to keep up with the continuity of consciousness.
• Serif A word rather than a single letter, whereas Sans serif the letter.
• In a very small field, usually the sans serif is more serif and clearer.

Suitable for different purposes

Usually the text and text of the article use Serif, which is easy to read, which can increase legibility, and it is not easy to get tired because it will be read in Word for a long time. The title, the form of the word used in the more prominent sans serif, he needs to be obvious, eye-catching, but do not have to stare at these words for a long time to read.

Like DM, Sea report, for the sake of eye-catching, his short passages will also be used sans serif character. However, in the case of books, newspaper magazines, and the text, it is necessary to use the serif to reduce the reading of the reader.

The situation of Chinese

In the case of Chinese is also a serif of the word, such as Ming (song) is serif, he is usually with the Times Roman word family to match. And the black, the circle is the sans serif of the word.

In the Chinese straight out of the situation, it is not easy to display the difference between the Serif/sans serif, but in the current Chinese horizontal row of the general situation, the above-mentioned and the legibility, the eye-catching is also suitable for Chinese.

Very often see Chinese publishing books, magazines, the text using a difficult to read, but it is very eye-catching black or the circle, this reader, in the long-term reading is easy to cause the eyes uncomfortable, it seems that the amount of avoidance is.

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