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>Yes. You see, "sans-serif" is a name, not a definition. Put very briefly,
>sans-serif typefaces have:
>- no serifs
>- strokes of uniform widths (with a few exceptions)
>
>Serif faces have:
>- serifs
>- strokes of non-uniform widths
>
I'm certainly no typography expert, either, but I've done some reading, and
I've always seen "sans serif" used as a very literal descriptive name. The
definition that you've given doesn't seem to be completely standard; in
fact, I've never seen the second requirement (uniform-width strokes) in any
of the texts I've read on typography. Could you tell me what your source for
this is?
Alexander Lawson, who is most definitely a typography expert, clearly refers
to Optima as a sans-serif font in his book _Anatomy of a Typeface_.
Andrew Broman
broman -at- acm -dot- org
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