History of Times New Roman Font

Calling the Times New Roman, certainly many people who know. This typeface is used as a standard typing letters in the world. Its existence is widely known by people from all walks of the profession. However, how many of us who know the history of the creation of font type Times New Roman is this?

This letter was designed by an Englishman named Stanley Morrison. He was born on May 6, 1889 in Wanstead, United Kingdom. Stanley grew up as a figure who has no knowledge about printing, but later on he occupied many important positions in the world. Knowledge that much in terms of typographic printing obtained since becoming a member of The Pelican Press.

Her love of God makes a lot of reading religious books, even the work of the first tipografinya also intended for the church. Once out of The Pelican Press, he worked for Cloister Press in Manchester. Many of the designs produced his best when he worked at this company. Again, his work reflects the background of many Catholic churches, it is seen in the illustrations and assorted decorations that he used. Because he hated the war, making motion antiperangnya he was imprisoned for four years (1914-1918).

Starting from the newspaper "Times"

For approximately 30 years (1929-1960) Stanley Morrison, a consultant letter to The Times newspaper in London, England. As a consultant letter, in 1931 he told the Times, "The Times is a newspaper that has had its own customers, we require a letter that is not the same as merchandise in general, letters should be basically good, but it also reflects the strength of the line, consistency, and economical for The Times ".

Because of his words was, October 3, 1932 became a day of marketing the font "Times" to the masses, because on that day for the first time the newspaper The Times printed using typeface named as the newspaper itself. Stanley Morrison was not the only person who was behind the screen success of the letter. He also assisted his friend named Victor Lardent as the person who drew the draft of this letter.

The letter named the Times is quickly becoming very popular at that time, widely used in newspapers, magazines, books and corporate annual reports. This letter is registered licensed to The Monotype Corporation in the United Kingdom, but also registered with the Linotype companies licensed in the United States, because many newspaper The Times of registering licenses its products to the Linotype. Finally, in 1945, The American Linotype Company to register the trade name "Times Roman" separately, not as a part of The Times or Monotype. This is where the differences occur for the use of letters of this name in computers. Linotype and companies under a license like Adobe and Apple Macintosh using the name "Times Roman", while Monotype with companies such as Microsoft under license using the name "Times New Roman".

In the era of the 80s, Monotype Times New Roman redesign and claims that the letters are in the redesign is better than Times Roman owned by Linotype. Because not to be outdone, in adjacent time periods, Adobe, Linotype also launched a new series of letters the Times, which of course they claim the new letter also better than Monotype's font. In fact, some or perhaps all users of this letter will not notice or will not even mempermasalah's a difference between them even though the letters are printed very clearly with a size of 10 pt in high resolution 300 dpi.

Regardless of the various conflicts in the above, it is evident that the Stanley Morrison has succeeded in creating a good letter with its own trademark so that this typeface is remembered and used by many today. He died on October 11, 1967 in London, England.