About Time New Roman

                                Times New Roman

The creator of Times New Roman was Victor Lardent, who was a advertising designer and draftsman who worked at the newspaper “The Times”. It was created under the supervision of Stanley Morison who was a typographer, designer and Historian. It was created for “The Times” and was published in their paper late into 1932. To date, Times New Roman is no longer used in “The Times” however it is widely used across the world in books, on websites or even just to write up a essay for a school project.

To the left is a picture example of the upper case, lowers case and symbols available for Times New Roman. It’s very clear and easy to read, which is most likely why it has been used as a default font for most things.

Times New Roman was created using the basis of the typeface “Plantin” which was first cut in 1913. Looking at them both I can see the similarities in them and how Times New Roman looks like a more thinner, less bold version of Plantin. However not all the letters look the same. If you were to look at the letters; M, W, J, and lower case j, you will be able to see the major differences in the typefaces.

Reading all the comments online and asking people, it seems people find Time New Roman to be boring and old. How it is, quote, “The end of an era for Time New Roman”. However, discussing this with a teacher, I came to understand how it is instead an invisible text, how its not the be looked at and how its just to be read. This is most likely why it has been used in so many thing in books, because people just want you to read their words and not look at how pretty it is, example’s being; Lucisa Blackletter, Giddyup Std, Apple Chancery. Taking this in I have decided to try and change this way of thinking on how it is an invisible text by trying to make my postcards make a person look at how interesting and pretty such a boring typeface can look.