Comment by mr_mitm
11 hours ago
Aren't those bars the serifs? So you're saying the sans-serif I has serifs?
Hacker news uses sans-serif font and in all my browsers the I and l look nearly identical btw.
11 hours ago
Aren't those bars the serifs? So you're saying the sans-serif I has serifs?
Hacker news uses sans-serif font and in all my browsers the I and l look nearly identical btw.
I think the serifs would be embellishments at the ends of the bars, not the bars themselves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif
This might be a question of philosophy! I suspect that they were originally serifs - see inscriptions to Julius Caesar, say (such inscriptions being the inspiration for Trajan font) - but for some writers they were extended to become part of the letter body, akin to the bar on the top of capital-T.
My take then is, originally they were serifs, now they are sometimes part of the letter form.