How to Use sans serif in a Sentence

sans serif

noun

• Wordage at the top of the arch is a stylized sans serif.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• Today, easier-to-read sans serif fonts, the ones without the little tails, are used.
  — Annette Richmond, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• But the plus sign suits the modern tendency toward narrow, nerd-chic sans serif fonts.
  — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 27 Feb. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Images are sprinkled throughout a page featuring a clean layout and a sans serif logo.
  — Cheryl Wischhover, Vox, 12 Sep. 2018
• Tenorite looks like a traditional workhorse sans serif font, but a little friendlier.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Phantom Sans, for example, is a pretty straightforward sans serif font.
  — Klint Finley, Wired, 9 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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
• The approvals granted Friday included plans for the sign proclaiming the Sherwin-Williams corporate name near the top of the skyscraper on its east- and west-facing facades in italic, or slanted, letters in a sans serif font.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 3 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024