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Courses/UX Design Foundations/Intro to Typography/
Exercise #3

Serif vs. Sans-Serif: Functional Classifications

Serif Typefaces

Characterized by decorative finishing strokes or 'feet' at the ends of character stems.

  • Categories: Old Style (Garamond), Transitional (Baskerville), Modern/Didone (Bodoni), Slab Serif (Rockwell).
  • UX Strengths: Convey authority, academic rigor, literary tradition, and institutional prestige. Often used for long-form editorial journalism.

Sans-Serif Typefaces

Lacking decorative finishing strokes; clean, geometric, or humanist terminals.

  • Categories: Humanist (Frutiger, Open Sans), Neo-Grotesque (Helvetica, Inter), Geometric (Futura, Poppins).
  • UX Strengths: Supreme clarity on low- and high-DPI digital screens, modern neutrality, and minimal visual noise in dense software interfaces.

Topics

Typography as the Voice of User Interface
Anatomy of Type: The Structural Geometry
Serif vs. Sans-Serif: Functional Classifications
Monospace, Display, and Script Typefaces
Optical Sizing and Modern Variable Fonts
The Typographic Scale and Mathematical Rhythm
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Intro to Typography

Level 1 · Getting Started with UX Design

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