The Times New Roman™ typefaces first appeared in 1932 in The Times of London newspaper, for which it was designed. Times New Roman has subsequently become one of the worlds most successful type creations. The original drawings were made under Stanley Morison's direction by Victor Lardent at The Times. It then went through an extensive iterative process involving further work by the type development team. Based on experiments Morison had conducted using Perpetua and Plantin, Times New Roman has many old style characteristics but was adapted to give excellent legibility coupled with good economy. Times New Roman Family (2 Fonts) Arabic is a versatile font with a wide variety of uses.

Times New Roman Arabic contains an extensive character Set: Latin-1, WGL, Arabic, Hebrew and Vietnamese. It will appear in the font menu as "Times New Roman". NOTE: Arabic fonts are not supported in Office 2008 for Mac.