Times New Roman

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Contents1. Introduction

2. About

3. Controversy

4. Variations

5. Typography

IntroductionIn 1931, The Times of London commissioned the Monotype Corporation, under the direction of Stanley Morison, to design a newspaper typeface. According to Morison: The Times, as a newspaper in a class by itself, needed not a general trade type, however good, but a face whose strength of line, firmness of contour, and economy of space fulfilled the specific editorial needs of the The Times. Times New Roman, drawn by Victor Lardent and initially released in 1932, is the result.

Research into legibility and readability led to a design that was unique in newspaper typography; it is based on old style (or Garalde) types, and has greater contrast and is more condensed than previous newspaper types. Times New Roman continues to be very popular, particularly for newspapers, magazines, and corporate communications such as proposals and annual reports.Times New Roman is a Transitional Style font, it’s Linotype version being Times Roman.

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The Times New Roman appeared for the first time on october 3rd 1932 in the Times. Only fourty years later, while the conditions of printing had completely changed, it was replaced by an other. Even though it originally was created for the printing of newspapers with stereotype-plates, it became also very fast the leading type for books on Monotype-, Linotype and Intertype-setting-machines after its release in 1932. Stanley Morrison started trials with Linotype-Newspaper-types and several Monotype-types, but soon they concentrated on a modern Monotype-Plantin with more sharp serifs.

About

Controversy

Mike Parker’s belief that the typeface that became Times New Roman was actually designed in 1904 by Starling Burgess was presented in the American Printing History Association’s journal Printing History (issue no 31/32, 1994). A “Rebuttal” appeared in the journal three or four years later : in it Nicolas Barker convincingly shows Parker’s evidence for the offer of the typeface to Time magazine to be spurious.

The late Gerald Giampa, an eccentric Canadian master printer who, in 1987, purchased the remnants of the Lanston Monotype company, delved into the company’s archive, where he claimed to have unearthed documents that refer to a typeface known only as Number 54 – the font, Parker says, that we now know as Times New Roman. Except that these documents dated from 1904, and bore the name of a different designer: William Starling Burgess.

Parker says that in 1921 Lanston Monotype tried unsuccessfully to sell the Number 54 font to a news magazine called Time. Sometime after that, Burgess’s drawings fell into the hands of Stanley Morison. When Morison criticised The Times for its typeface, they challenged him to come up with something better. In his writings, he claimed to have looked to Plantin for inspiration.

Other accounts suggest that he sought help from outside designers, including Harry Carter, who sketched some proposals. Later on Carter’s son, Matthew, found those sketches. “When I asked what happened to them, my father just laughed and said Morison had never said a word in reply,”. Parker believes he knows why Harry Carter’s drawings were turned down – Morison had then been supplied designs of Number 54.

“When I asked what happened to them, my father just laughed and said Morison had never said a word in reply,”

Variations

10pt ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ



18pt ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZZ

When I was looking for a particular kind of typeface, I sim-ply flipped through the pages. Each page showed the type large, and also had a sample paragraph in several different text sizes.

When I was look-ing for a particular kind of typeface, I simply flipped through the pages. Each page showed the type large, and also had a sample paragraph in sev-

When I was looking for a particular kind of typeface, I simply flipped through the pages. Each

12 pt 14 pt 18 pt

10pt acbdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz



18pt acbdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzZ

AaAaAaAa Bold italics, 72 pt

Bold, 72 pt

Italics, 72 pt

Regular, 72 pt

Variations

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12pt `~+=[{\|}]:;”’<>,.?/å∂ß≈çΩ®´∫√

14pt `~+=[{\|}]:;”’<>,.?/å∂ß≈çΩ®´∫√

18pt `~+=[{\|}]:;”’<>,.?/å∂ß≈çΩ®´∫√Z

10 people walked into a room built for 4, out of then 2 were thin, 3 were tall and 5 were fat enough to bemultiplied by 2. 5 had a car.

10 people walked into a room built for 4, out of then 2 were thin, 3 were tall and 5 were fat enough to bemulti-plied by 2. 5 had a car.

10 people walked into a room built for 4, out of then 2 were thin, 3 were tall and 5 were fat

12 pt 14 pt 18 pt

10pt 1234567890!@#$%^&*()

12pt 1234567890!@#$%^&*()

14pt 1234567890!@#$%^&*()

18pt 1234567890!@#$%^&*()

12121212 Bold italics, 72 pt

Bold, 72 pt

Italics, 72 pt

Regular, 72 pt

Comparisons

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Times New Roman, 43 pt

Goudy Old Style, 43 pt

Garamond, 43 pt

Palatino, 43 pt

Cambria, 43 pt

Baskerville, 43 pt

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Times New Roman, 43 pt

Goudy Old Style, 43 pt

Garamond, 43 pt

Palatino, 43 pt

Cambria, 43 pt

Baskerville, 43 pt

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Typography

Times new Roman, is widely used and widely recognized as a book font, and has even been criticized for its less-then-impressive on screen usage. However, when arranged correctly, it can be used as a tool to construct an artpiece, and a rather impressive one at that ( see reverse page ). The text on the left hand side depicts how, even in a squashed mash of words, Times New Roman still somehow mantains its elegance of the serifs. The examples would show Times New Roman in another light - the world has seen too much of Times New Roman on books and newspapers - it ought to be used on posters and headers as well.

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Jimi In Type, 2009 (left)by icantreedhttp://icantreed.deviantart.com

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Yes We Kern, 2010 (top)a spoof of obama’s*note the pun

Documents

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