They were so proud of their new typeface they printed a side by side comparison with its previous font, and objectively it is more readable:Įven though the Times itself thought Times New Roman was specifically a newspaper font and shouldn’t be used in books, the overall readability of it took it quickly into the book publishing world as well. Times New Roman was created by Stanley Morrison, a type designer, and Victor Lardent, a draftsman, in 1932 for the prestigious Times of London, which had the font “ tested by the highest ophthalmic authority” after following the recommendations of the British Medical Research Council’s Report on the Legibility of Print.
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