Times New Roman Fonts
An immensely practical typeface, the Times New Roman font has been available continuously since 1933. It can be found as a primary member of every kind of lettering system has consequently become one of the world’s most successful type face designs. Times New Roman™ Family is universally used in books, newspapers and magazines, for reports, office documents and also for display and advertising.
Times New Roman Fonts Packages
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$110.00
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$75.00
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The Times New Roman font family typeface first appeared in 1932 in The Times of London newspaper, for which it was designed. For many years since its arrival, the Times New Roman font was a typeface associated with the authority and style of the British Empire. It later became a truly common and popular vehicle of printed communication, used wherever manufactured lettering was required.
While the actual creator of the design is to this day a source of controversy, it is undisputed that the Stanley Morison (1889-1967) direction by Victor Lardent at the Times was responsible for the introduction of this type, and it fitted the purpose beautifully. In the 1930s, Stanley Morison was at the height of his power and influence as an authority on letterforms and type history. He was an established commentator on the art of printing and wrote extensively on the history of early printing. Stanley Morison has been described as possibly the most distinguished British scholars and typographers of the 20th century.
The Times New Roman font 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, the Times New Roman font family has many old style characteristics but was adapted to give excellent legibility coupled with good economy.
As a serif typeface Times New Roman has crisp, clean neutrality that has recommended it to the general printing industry. It has a large x-height and is rather narrow, which makes it very economic on space; this is an important quality for a newspaper type. Its sturdy letterforms are designed to withstand the rigors of letterpress newspaper presses.
Whatever the true origins of this typeface, it has served with quiet dignity to become a truly continuous worker, appearing in every possible medium of the printed word. The Times New Roman font is a much-loved typeface in the English-speaking world and beyond; for example, its distinct forms have been applied to Cyrillic and Greek alphabets.
The Times New Roman font was one of the first typefaces that resulted from a serious attempt to meet all the requirements of a newspaper in one complete, integrated typographic style.
The Times New Roman font is classified as a 20th century roman. It is a typeface design that has echoes of the past, but is not a direct revival of a historical typeface. Times New Roman’s practical good looks made it a natural choice for early conversion to PC use.