A Brief History of Times New Roman(typographyforlawyers.com)

16 pointsby c-slice11 yıl önce3 comments

http://typographyforlawyers.com/a-brief-history-of-times-new-roman.html

3 comments

Freak_NL11 yıl önce

> When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the font of least resistance.” Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color. To look at Times New Roman is to gaze into the void.

Nicely worded. Even if you don't want to bother with typography at all, Times New Roman is rarely a good default. It was designed for typesetting tall and narrow newspaper columns, not A4 or Letter width letters and memos.

watson11 yıl önce

We always hear so much about the history of Helvetica... nice for a change to read about the other big font out there

dstyrb11 yıl önce

a brief history of helvetica and arial, posted here a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/the-scourge-of-ari...