How to Use sans serif in a Sentence
sans serif
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Wordage at the top of the arch is a stylized sans serif.
—Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2019
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Today, easier-to-read sans serif fonts, the ones without the little tails, are used.
—Annette Richmond, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
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But the plus sign suits the modern tendency toward narrow, nerd-chic sans serif fonts.
—Katy Steinmetz, Time, 27 Feb. 2020
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The mix in fonts of modern sans serif with a handwritten script alludes to the fact the theater stages contemporary and classic works.
—Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 June 2018
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Don’t be surprised if the street number is in mid-century sans serif, or if the front yard has new vegetation amid dark mulch.
—John King, SFChronicle.com, 24 May 2020
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Images are sprinkled throughout a page featuring a clean layout and a sans serif logo.
—Cheryl Wischhover, Vox, 12 Sep. 2018
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Tenorite looks like a traditional workhorse sans serif font, but a little friendlier.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
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In mostly black, uppercase, sans serif typeface, poetic rat-a-tat-tat grabs passersby on foot or wheels.
—Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
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When Facebook rolled out a corporate rebrand last fall, the lead image in the press release showed the new logo — breezily spaced sans serif — in a muted shade somewhere on the ham-to-salmon spectrum.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 9 Mar. 2020
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This sans serif typeface by Aaron Bell is derived from old German road and railway signage, which was designed to be legible at a distance.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
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Phantom Sans, for example, is a pretty straightforward sans serif font.
—Klint Finley, Wired, 9 Mar. 2020
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Essaibi George’s logo, sans serif type arranged in a neat rectangle with a row of stars, looks highly traditional.
—BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2021
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Logos that aren’t really logos, the sans serif labels appear on the chest or at the hip, and though the writing is small, the message is loud and clear: Style and sustainability are both important to me.
—Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2021
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Orlando map heads and graphics lovers will be sucked into a wall piece that portrays the City Beautiful’s neighborhoods with jaunty, sans serif type created by Nativemaps.
—Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Nov. 2021
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The multitude of badges that denote user status are hexagonal, which, in combination with the gray sans serif typography that appears in posts, gives the whole site the feel of a pharmaceutical brochure.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
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Since the early 1980s, the engine of her work, and its effectiveness, has been formatting — the candy apple red bar containing white sans serif type, rendered in Futura Bold Oblique, conveying aphorisms that could be taunts or pleas.
—New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
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New companies, some direct-to-consumer, check all the boxes of millennial marketing: pale pastel colors, sans serif fonts, ethnically diverse women with a range of body types and robust social-media campaigns.
—Sanam Yar, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2019
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The sign in Blacksburg used a sans serif font that graphic designers generally consider more modern – in part because they were developed relatively recently.
—Daniel Tamul, The Conversation, 6 May 2020
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Products were mostly hawked using traditional typefaces paired with romantic or idealized photographs and illustrations on the one hand, or, on the other, a chilly, rational European modernist style, with elegant photographs and sans serif type.
—New York Times, 1 Aug. 2021
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