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serif

Short horizontal lines added to the tops and bottoms of traditional typefaces, such as Times Roman. Contrast with sans-serif.



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Potter excels at bustling street scenes showing reveling Londoners of all classes; the typeface, Olduvai Regular, parades along with serifs looking both fancifully old-fashioned and down-to-earth.
The boy's questions appear in a casual sans serif type, the cat's answers in a more formal felinelike font, with graceful, whisker-ish serifs.
Stojadinovic added geometric serifs to the original design to create four weights in serif and sans serif sub-families.
 
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