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Serif [anatomy]

A small line attached to the end of a stroke in a letter.

🇳🇱 Dutch: schreef
🇫🇷 French: empattement
🇩🇪 German: Serife
🇮🇹 Italian: grazia
🇵🇱 Polish: szeryf
🇵🇹 Portuguese: serifa
🇷🇺 Russian: засечки
🇪🇸 Spanish: remate, patín, (gracia)
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    Manuel Sesma

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    In spanish, "serifa" is a mistake, a bad translation from English. "Gracia" is right but not very usual, and "patín" is common in South America. The very right term is "remate".

    Ralf Herrmann

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    Thanks for all the additions Manuel. We appreciate it! I saw you first commented, but then found the Edit button. So I removed the comments again. 

    Riccardo Sartori

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    Perhaps this entry should be split, Wikipedia-style, in something like Serif (anatomy) and Serif (classification).

    hyvyys

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    On 7/25/2018 at 1:35 PM, Riccardo Sartori said:

    Perhaps this entry should be split, Wikipedia-style, in something like Serif (anatomy) and Serif (classification).

    I agree. Especially that not all languages use nouns as adjectives and vice versa.

    Riccardo Sartori

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    10 minutes ago, hyvyys said:

    not all languages use nouns as adjectives and vice versa.

    👍

    Riccardo Sartori

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    2 hours ago, Ralf Herrmann said:

    Same problem for slab-serif?

    I’d say no, because I don’t think descending in the rabbit hole of serifs classification would be especially useful here.

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