![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sans-serif</span> Typeface classification for letterforms without serifs](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Ming_serif.svg/320px-Ming_serif.svg.png)
In typography and lettering, a sans-serif, sans serif, gothic, or simply sans letterform is one that does not have extending features called "serifs" at the end of strokes. Sans-serif typefaces tend to have less stroke width variation than serif typefaces. They are often used to convey simplicity and modernity or minimalism. For the purposes of type classification, sans-serif designs are usually divided into these major groups: § Grotesque and § Neo-grotesque, § Geometric, § Humanist and § Other or mixed.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Typeface</span> Set of characters that share common design features](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/A_Specimen_by_William_Caslon.jpg/320px-A_Specimen_by_William_Caslon.jpg)
A typeface is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display. Most typefaces include variations in size, weight, slope, width, and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Helvetica</span> Neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/HelveticaSpecimenCH.svg/320px-HelveticaSpecimenCH.svg.png)
Helvetica, also known by its original name Neue Haas Grotesk, is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Futura (typeface)</span> Geometric sans-serif typeface](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Futura_Specimen.svg/320px-Futura_Specimen.svg.png)
Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Paul Renner and released in 1927. It was designed as a contribution on the New Frankfurt-project. It is based on geometric shapes, especially the circle, similar in spirit to the Bauhaus design style of the period. It was developed as a typeface by the Bauer Type Foundry, in competition with Ludwig & Mayer's seminal Erbar typeface of 1926.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Univers</span> Sans-serif typeface family](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Univers_sample_2015.png/320px-Univers_sample_2015.png)
Univers is a large sans-serif typeface family designed by Adrian Frutiger and released by his employer Deberny & Peignot in 1957. Classified as a neo-grotesque sans-serif, one based on the model of nineteenth-century German typefaces such as Akzidenz-Grotesk, it was notable for its availability from the moment of its launch in a comprehensive range of weights and widths. The original marketing for Univers deliberately referenced the periodic table to emphasise its scope.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gill Sans</span> Humanist sans-serif typeface family developed by Monotype](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/GillSansEG.svg/320px-GillSansEG.svg.png)
Gill Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill and released by the British branch of Monotype from 1928 onwards.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Typography of Apple Inc.</span> Overview of typography of Apple Inc.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Apple_first_logo.png/320px-Apple_first_logo.png)
Apple Inc. uses a large variety of typefaces in its marketing, operating systems, and industrial design with each product cycle. These change throughout the years with Apple's change of style in their products. This is evident in the design and marketing of the company. The current logo is a white apple with a bite out of it, which was first utilized in 2013.
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There are Unicode typefaces which are open-source and designed to contain glyphs of all Unicode characters, or at least a broad selection of Unicode scripts. There are also numerous projects aimed at providing only a certain script, such as the Arabeyes Arabic font. The advantage of targeting only some scripts with a font was that certain Unicode characters should be rendered differently depending on which language they are used in, and that a font that only includes the characters a certain user needs will be much smaller in file size compared to one with many glyphs. Unicode fonts in modern formats such as OpenType can in theory cover multiple languages by including multiple glyphs per character, though very few actually cover more than one language's forms of the unified Han characters.
Aldo Novarese was an Italian type designer who lived and worked mostly in Turin.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eurostile</span> Geometric sans-serif font](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/EurostileSpec.svg/320px-EurostileSpec.svg.png)
Eurostile is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Aldo Novarese in 1962. Novarese created Eurostile for one of the best-known Italian foundries, Nebiolo, in Turin.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Akzidenz-Grotesk</span> Sans-serif typeface family by the Berthold Type Foundry of Berlin](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/AkzidenzGroteskspecAIB1.svg/320px-AkzidenzGroteskspecAIB1.svg.png)
Akzidenz-Grotesk is a sans-serif typeface family originally released by the Berthold Type Foundry of Berlin. "Akzidenz" indicates its intended use as a typeface for commercial print runs such as publicity, tickets and forms, as opposed to fine printing, and "grotesque" was a standard name for sans-serif typefaces at the time.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kabel (typeface)</span> Geometric sans-serif typeface](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Kabel_new_specimen.png/320px-Kabel_new_specimen.png)
Kabel is a geometric sans-serif typeface that was designed by the German designer Rudolf Koch and released by the Klingspor foundry from 1927 onward.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rotis</span> Font superfamily; humanist sans-serif typeface](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Rotisng.svg/320px-Rotisng.svg.png)
Rotis is a typeface developed in 1988 by Otl Aicher, a German graphic designer and typographer. In Rotis, Aicher explores an attempt at maximum legibility through a highly unified yet varied typeface family that ranges from full serif, glyphic, and sans-serif. The four basic Rotis variants are:
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Swash (typography)</span> Typographical flourish found on some letterforms, particularly in italics](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Regular_italic_swash_cap.png/320px-Regular_italic_swash_cap.png)
A swash is a typographical flourish, such as an exaggerated serif, terminal, tail, entry stroke, etc., on a glyph. The use of swash characters dates back to at least the 16th century, as they can be seen in Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi's La Operina, which is dated 1522. As with italic type in general, they were inspired by the conventions of period handwriting. Arrighi's designs influenced designers in Italy and particularly in France.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bank Gothic</span> Geometric sans serif typeface](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/BankGothicsp.svg/320px-BankGothicsp.svg.png)
Bank Gothic is a rectilinear geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton for American Type Founders and released in 1930. The design has become popular from the late twentieth century to suggest a science-fiction, military, corporate, or sports aesthetic.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Interstate (typeface)</span> Sans-serif typeface](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/FBInter.svg/320px-FBInter.svg.png)
Interstate is a digital typeface designed by Tobias Frere-Jones in the period 1993–1999, and licensed by Font Bureau. The typeface is based on Style Type E of the FHWA series of fonts, a signage alphabet drawn for the United States Federal Highway Administration by Dr. Theodore W. Forbes in 1949.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Handel Gothic</span> Geometric sans-serif typeface](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Handel_Gothic_Type_Specimen.svg/320px-Handel_Gothic_Type_Specimen.svg.png)
Handel Gothic is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed in 1965 by Donald J. Handel (1936–2002), who worked for the graphic designer Saul Bass.
Stereofidelic is a sans-serif typeface designed as a freeware display type by Ray Larabie in the late 1990s.