what is serif???

Question

it is mentioned in a song by demon hunter and i dont know what it is

Answer 1

Be patient with me. This got complicated.

Both of the previous responses may be right and relevant. A "seraph" is an angel, often a winged or flaming creature, one of the traditional hosts of heaven. If the demon hunter lyric you are referring to is the one below, this is clearly what is meant even though the spelling is "serif."

"Sing now serif, find the calm within your soul Bring us closer to the flame that guides us home - Demon Hunter" [1]

Obviously, it means something like this (I can't find the whole song to see how it's used in context): Sing now, Angel . . . Bring us closer to the flame that guides us heavenward. Right?

In fact, now I've found another site that says this: "Ok we get a whole huge frigging choir of angels to go 'SING NOW SERAPH FIND THE CALM WITHIN YOUR SOUL, BRING US CLOSER TO THE FLAME THAT GUIDES US HOME...'" [2] This spelling solves the problem, doesn't it.

However, just in case you're still curious about the other serif read on. I had spent a lot of time answering what I thought was the question, What is a serif? Don't want to waste all that effort. So here it is.

Serif is a homonym for seraph, with an altogether different meaning.

A serif is a little point, or trill, that decorates letters in some fonts. Sans serif (French for "without serif") has no such points or trills.

What you are reading now is a sans serif font (Arial, I think). Yahoo! Answers, as far as I can determine, will not let me import a serif font into my response.

Internet design typically prefers the simplicity of sans serif fonts. In fact, I had to go through more than twenty of my bookmarks for Internet blogs to find one that featured a serif font. It's Zogby News! [3] If you check it out, you will see in the text (for example) little points on both sides of the top and base of the T; or, you will see the same kind of little points at each end of the Z. Not in the design at the top of the page however, nor in the word NEWS that heads the text. Contrast Whatz in the design and Whatz in the first word of the current text on that site.

Or go to truthout [4]. Virtually that whole page is sans serif, but not the word truthout itself, which has a suggestion of serifs, or the phrase Voter Rights, which appears imposed on an American flag a few inches down in the middle column.

Finally, for a clear explanation with examples of both serif and sans serif fonts, go to the wikipedia article. [5] That article begins, "In typography, serifs are non-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols."

In the old days, publishers of newspapers and books tended to use serif fonts almost exclusively for text, sans serif only for title and bold headlines. Hence, serif fonts appear to us now as more formal and traditional, sans serif as more modern and straightforward.

Answer 2

I think it might have something to do with fonts. I think like it is the little extra part of the letter that goes across at the end of a line. If that makes any sense. As in Microsoft sans serif (the font)

Answer 3

You mean Seraph. It is a type of angel (as described in the bible). Supposedly demons are fallen angels so there's the connection.