sans serif

1. 1.

   a typeface in which characters have no serifs

   SynonymsHelvetica

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Questions about sans serif

What does sans serif mean?

sans serif means "a typeface in which characters have no serifs".

What is another word for sans serif?

Close synonyms include Helvetica. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sans serif a common word?

sans serif is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.