Times New Roman
The Times is a baroque roman typeface, which was originally designed in 1931 by Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent. Meanwhile, there are numerous variants of the original Times. As a computer font the Times became popular by products of the company Adobe, Microsoft and Apple, so it is one of the best known and most used fonts.
For the exact genesis of the Times, there are several differing representations. There is agreement about the fact that the Times was designed under the direction Morison for the newspaper The Times and that he was guided by the Plantin Frank Hinman Pierpont in the design of their lowercase.
To prepare the matrices, the Times of London joined subcontracting agreements with both The Monotype Corporation and Linotype & Machinery, Ltd.. and allowed them to publish the script after a year of exclusive use, even for the free use. Mergenthaler Linotype led the font a 14 years later. Both Monotype and Linotype rise today claim to the trademark.
The Times was soon widely used in publishing and provides, although now no longer used by The Times, continues to be a popular, especially in newsprint and office communications writing as it gives several advantages for a newspaper writing: It is robust, clear and easy to read and in space consumption economically.
Since February 1, 2004, all U.S. diplomatic documents in Times New Roman are by order of the U.S. State Department to print in 14 point instead of the previous Courier New 12 point.
Times as a computer font
Your now in everyday high profile based on the integration of Times variants in software products, which gained wide circulation. A digital version of Times Roman was integrated by Adobe in their first PostScript interpreter (and thus laser printers). Later, Microsoft and Apple delivered it as part of their operating systems Windows and Mac OS.
Windows comes with monotypes Times New Roman, while Mac OS Linotype Times Roman contains. On Unix -like systems normally found Nimbus Roman No9 L by URW . This is URWs as Public Domain published PostScript version of Times Roman.
Times New Roman is Microsoft's name for the TrueType version of Times New Roman PS, a narrower variant of monotypes classic type. The PS version was introduced at the request of Microsoft Monotype, to coincide with the dimensions of the Times Roman ( a PostScript core fonts Linotype ). She has finer capitals that were originally designed for printing German texts (because, in contrast to the English seem much more capital letters).
The differences between Times Roman and Times New Roman are mostly in the trademark. However, there are quite stylistic differences, may not notice the letter for letter, but do it in a direct comparison, however. Below Detached font example shows the three variants mentioned among themselves. Also, to see Roman for worse paper, the Times Ten, a special version of Times Roman for point sizes under 12, and the Times Europe, an even more robust version of the Times.
- Examples of Times
Font sample for Times Roman, Times New Roman PS MT, Times New Roman MT, Times Ten and Times Europe