![]() But I never made a conscious decision to do so. Like virtually every other lawyer, when I use a serif typeface (rather than a sans serif typeface such as Arial), I use Times New Roman. Ironically, it’s no longer commonly used in newspapers, not even the Times. Times is probably used inappropriately more than any other typeface today. With all that room on the line, why crowd the text like that? ![]() The lines set in Times in Figure 5.3 seem crowded when compared with a more standard book face. This openness is more in proportion with the wider line length typical of books and journals. Clearly, Times sets narrower than the rest, and the wider set of the others not only makes them easier to read but also creates a more open impression on the page. The relative widths of some common text faces are shown in Figure 5.2. Book publishers adopted it because it saved them paper.Ī typeface of “standard” width has a lowercase alphabet that’s 13 ems long. Designed for use by the Times of London (as its new roman face, back in the 1930s), it has comparatively narrow characters, the better to compose well the short lines of newspaper columns. But in fact, Times is not a classic text face. Vast numbers of paperback books and corporate communications are churned out with these faces every year. ![]() The most popularly used text faces today are Monotype’s Times New Roman and Linotype’s version of it, Times Roman. Since then, I’ve continued reading this book, and I found very interesting what it had to say about the typeface Times New Roman: In a recent post on one space versus two, I cited The Complete Manual of Typography, by James Felici.
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