Monday, August 24, 2009

Typedia: a Font Wiki

Things I learned today about Times New Roman thanks to Typedia:

Times New Roman made its world debut in the October 3rd 1932 issue of The Times (of London) newspaper. After one year the design was released for commercial sale. The Times stayed with Times New Roman for some 40 years, but new production techniques combined with a format change from broadsheet to tabloid in 2004 have caused the newspaper to switch font five times since 1972. All the new fonts have been variants of the original New Roman font, however.

So now you know, too! Now back to reading up on more fun fonts!

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