Edlen Vintage Serif Letters Font

In microtypography, a serif is a short, thin line on the lines of letters and characters, which in antiqua typefaces terminates a letter stroke at the end, at right angles to its basic direction as a horizontal stroke (stroke, foot). The serif typeface is primarily used for the main text of books and magazines, since in printed form this typeface is in many cases less tiring and easier to read than sans serif typefaces. A well-known serif font (also called a serif font) is Times; a well-known sans-serif font is Helvetica.

The Duden and the Oxford English Dictionary cite the Dutch schreef "stroke, line" as the presumed word origin, although the word used in German is additionally assumed to be borrowed from the corresponding English word. Depending on where and how the serif ends the stroke of a glyph, a distinction is made between end serifs, roof serifs, head serifs, cross serifs, and stance serifs. Serifs can be one-sided or double-sided.

One-sided serifs are also called half serifs. For example, the lowercase letter k has a single-sided badger serif at the top left, a double-sided closing serif at the top right, a double-sided standing serif at the bottom left, and either a single-sided or double-sided standing serif at the bottom right. In microtypography, serifs are referred to in more detail by a variety of other terms, depending on their exact form.