Times New Roman

Times New Roman is a serif typeface commissioned by The Times (London) newspaper in 1931 and designed by Stanley Morison together with Starling Burgess and Victor Lardent. It was first issued by the Monotype Corporation in 1932. Although no longer used by The Times, it is still widely used for typesetting books.

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Serif - Typeface - The Times - London - 1931 - Stanley Morison - Starling Burgess - Victor Lardent - Monotype Corporation - 1932

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A version of Times New Roman was produced by Monotype for Microsoft, and distributed with every copy of Microsoft Windows since version 3.1. As with Times on the Apple Macintosh, it is used as the default font in many applications, especially web browsers and word processors.

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Monotype - Microsoft - Microsoft Windows - Apple Macintosh - Font - Application - Web browser - Word processor

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Times New Roman is Microsoft's name for the TrueType version of Times New Roman PS, a narrower variant of Monotype's classic Times New Roman typeface. The PS version was introduced to match the metrics of Times Roman (a PostScript core font by Linotype). It has the lighter capitals which were originally developed for printing German (where all nouns begin with a capital letter).

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TrueType - Times Roman - PostScript - Linotype

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In 2004, the U.S. State Department announced that as of February 1, 2004, all US diplomatic documents would use Times New Roman 14 point instead of the previous Courier New 12 point.

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2004 - U.S. State Department - February 1 - Point - Courier New

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