How to Use sans serif in a Sentence

sans serif

noun
  • Will my boss prefer serif or sans serif headings in this pitch deck?
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026
  • But the plus sign suits the modern tendency toward narrow, nerd-chic sans serif fonts.
    — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Today, easier-to-read sans serif fonts, the ones without the little tails, are used.
    — Annette Richmond, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Tenorite looks like a traditional workhorse sans serif font, but a little friendlier.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Images are sprinkled throughout a page featuring a clean layout and a sans serif logo.
    — Cheryl Wischhover, Vox, 12 Sep. 2018
  • The move has re-sparked a long running debate about the merits and readability of serif versus sans serif fonts.
    — WIRED, 20 Jan. 2023
  • 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.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 24 May 2020
  • 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
  • Phantom Sans, for example, is a pretty straightforward sans serif font.
    — Klint Finley, Wired, 9 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • In New York City, anonymous activists have twice hung large green banners with text in white, capital, sans serif letters.
    — John Corso-Esquivel, The Conversation, 22 July 2022
  • 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
  • Its storefronts are outfitted with pale wood, white tiling, and a logo styled in an oppressively inoffensive Helvetica-esque sans serif font.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 14 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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