Comment by rf15
5 days ago
Good to know that the age old tradition of calling a font with serifs sans-serif is well alive and kicking.
The reason here is that the basic glyph shape is that of a sans-serif, but still got serifs added afterwards. That doesn't stop it from diluting the meaning of the term.
Iosevka can perfectly be either sans-serif, or serif, or a mixture - it's customizable.
Iosevka is more of a parfois-serif I guess.
Slab serif is optional.
Where do you see the serifs?
...In the submitted Title and on the page itself. It says it is a sans-serif font, but then offers also a slab-serif variant.
Where does it say it is a sans-serif font? The very first full sentence on the page starts with "Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif + slab-serif, monospace + quasi‑proportional typeface family", just like the title here says "sans-serif and slab-serif".
How does the existence of a serif variant change anything about the original sans-serif font not having serifs?