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Times Roman
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| Typeface | Times New Roman |
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| Category | Serif |
| Classifications | Transitional PANOSE: 2263545234 |
| Designer(s) | Stanley Morison Starling Burgess Victor Lardent |
| Commissioned by | The Times |
| Foundry | Monotype |
| Date released | 1931 |
Times New Roman is a serif typeface commissioned by the British newspaper, The Times, in 1931, designed by Stanley Morison together with Starling Burgess and Victor Lardent at the English branch of Monotype. It was commissioned after Morison had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and typographically behind the times. The font was supervised by Stanley Morison and drawn by Victor Lardent, an artist from the advertising department of The Times. Morison used an older font named Plantin as the basis for his design, but made revisions for legibility and economy of space. As the old type used by the newspaper had been called "Times Old Roman," Morison's revision became "Times New Roman." The Times debuted the new typeface in October 1932, and after one year the design was released for commercial sale.
Although no longer used by The Times, it is still widely used for book typography.
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Because of its ubiquitous nature, the typeface has been influential in the subsequent development of a number of serif typefaces both before and after the start of the digital-font era. One notable example is Georgia, shown at right, which has very similar stroke shapes to Times New Roman but wider serifs.
Microsoft distributed Times New Roman with every copy of Microsoft Windows since version 3.1. As with Times on the Apple Macintosh, it is used as the default font in many applications, especially web browsers and word processors. However, Microsoft replaced Times New Roman with Calibri, a sans-serif font, as the default font in Microsoft Office 2007. [1]
Times New Roman used in Microsoft Windows is a TrueType version of Times New Roman PS, a narrower variant of Monotype's classic Times New Roman typeface. The PS version was introduced to match the metrics of Times Roman (a PostScript core font by Linotype). It has the lighter capitals which were originally developed for printing German (where all nouns begin with a capital letter).
In 2004, the U.S. State Department announced that as of February 1, 2004, all U.S. diplomatic documents would use 14 point Times New Roman instead of the previous 12 point Courier New.
Times is a body text, serif typeface. It is Linotype's licensed version of Monotype's Times New Roman typeface.
The differences between Times Roman and Times New Roman are mostly a trademark issue. Although there are subtle stylistic differences (for example, Linotype has slanted serifs on the capital "S", Monotype's are vertical), most are invisible in body text at normal reading distances. (Vivid differences between the two versions do occur in the lowercase z in the italic weight and in the percent sign in all weights.) Although there was a time when Times New Roman had different widths than Times Roman, when Microsoft licensed Times New Roman for Windows, they asked Monotype to match the Adobe/Linotype widths from the PostScript font; consequently, the most common versions seen today have identical widths in common characters.
Microsoft Windows computers feature Monotype's Times New Roman while Mac computers have Linotype's Times Roman (simply named Times).
URW produced a version of Times New Roman called Nimbus Roman. Nimbus Roman No9 L, URW's PostScript variant, was released under the GNU General Public License, and available in major free and open source operating systems.
Times Europa is a variant designed by Walter Tracy in 1972 for The Times, as a sturdier version of Times font family.
CG Times is a variant of Times family made by Compugraphic Corporation foundry.
- ^ The end of an era for Times New Roman? - Andrew Whitacre, Fadtastic.net, accessed May 27, 2006
- Lawson, Alexander S., Anatomy of a Typeface. Godine: 1990. ISBN 978-0879233334.
- Typowiki: Times New Roman
- Times New Roman Font Family by Stanley Morison, Victor Lardent
- Times New Roman at Monotype
- Times New Roman font information (Microsoft typography)
- Downloadable version of Times New Roman (Core fonts for the Web)
- Times (New) Roman and its part in the Development of Scalable Font Technology—Times Roman vs. Times New Roman
- Goodbye to the Courier font? - Tom Vanderbilt, Slate.com, 20 February 2004.