Times New Roman facts for kids

Times New Roman is a serif typeface. It was made for legibility (easy reading) in body text. It was created by the British newspaper The Times in 1931. It was made by Stanley Morison, the artistic advisor to the British part of the newspaper. Victor Lardent, a lettering artist at Times advertising department, helped him make it.

The font is no longer used by the Times newspaper. It is used mostly in books and general printing. It has become a regular typeface used on most computers.

What Times New Roman looks like.

As a typeface used for newspapers, Times New Roman allows tight line-spacing and a smaller appearance. It was first seen in the Times on 3 October 1932.

Design

Times New Roman is packed together, with tall lowercase letters. These things make it easier to read.

Images for kids

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  Twenty-two lines in Times New Roman compared to its predecessor "modern" serif font. Times appears larger on the page, with tighter linespacing and more solid in appearance.

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  Times compared with its influences in italic. The italic was made simpler than Plantin's, losing flourishes on the 'w' and 'v', but less radically than that of Perpetua.

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  Times compared to a modern-face and the wide, monoline Excelsior, part of Linotype's Legibility Group.

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  A Ludlow Typograph specimen of Times New Roman Type Specimen from the metal type period. The design was altered in smaller sizes to increase readability, particularly obvious in the widened spacing of the six and eight-point samples at centre right of the diagram. The hollows at the top of upstrokes are also not seen in the standard digitisations.

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  Times Hever Titling from a Monotype specimen.

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  A 1943 brochure used by Crowell-Collier, one of the first major American users of Times New Roman, to promote the changeover.

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  Working drawings for a Linotype release of "Times Roman". Various accents are drawn together on the same sheet.

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  The Times' previous typeface from an article describing the Balfour Declaration in 1917

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  Times Modern Swash, an exaggerated and unauthorised display adaptation of Times from the phototypesetting period

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  Press Roman, a version of Times New Roman typed on a premium IBM typewriter

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  Comparison between Times New Roman and Liberation Serif, showing its much squarer design

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  A standard Times New Roman digitisation compared to the STIX Two project, an open-source typeface for mathematics based on Times's smaller metal point sizes. STIX Two has a higher x-height and a reduction in fine detail.

See also

In Spanish: Times New Roman para niños