That being said, such restrictions are getting scarcer, especially with the rise of Mac. Older government forms coming as templates to be filled out in Word would not play nice if you try to change the font. Some universities strongly encourage if not outright mandate the use of Times new Roman for papers, and so do scientific journals. On the other hand, certain institutions would have you use nothing but Times New Roman. That kind of attitude does not help to secure a job or scholarship. If the sender didn’t change the default option to something more balanced, it communicates that they either did not want to make your experience better or did not bother to do that. One could argue that a document in Times New Roman screams laziness or indifference. These days, a narrow font is a compromise on usability that you don’t actually have to make-and people would appreciate it if you didn’t.
Interestingly, The Times had to adapt similarly in print: they had to create yet another Times New Roman-inspired typeface after moving from broadsheet to tabloid in 2004. Trying to squeeze in extra characters on screens with little horizontal space will bring nothing but frustration for the reader. Most devices connected to the internet now have a vertical layout. client that commissioned an article) that needs to save costs, they can always change character size or pick a narrow font themselves.įurthermore, the mobile boom is not helping narrow fonts like Times New Roman. You don’t pay more for publishing an article or sending a document with much more reasonable line spacing and kerning than the average Victorian newspaper. At the end of the day, all publications did that and it’s not like many people would’ve changed morning newspapers just because one is a bit easier to read than the rest.Ĭomputers, however, do not have the same limitation. It is a mostly business decision: you gotta fit in as much text on a page as possible-even during the times (ha-ha!) when the ratio of ads to stories was much lower. Times New Roman, much like a lot of newspaper fonts, is rather narrow. Serif and Sans serif versions of Inria font from Black Practicality vs Usability Note how you can’t see any tails on the letters in this article-or most any website created in the last 10 years. All letters (or other characters) come with decorative lines, which range from very subtle to indeed something you would see in an 18th-century newspaper. One reason why Times New Roman may give an archaic vibe is that it is a serif font. Now that we have modern LCD screens with much higher resolution and fidelity, a font capturing aesthetics from 300 years ago feels crystal weird.įonts classification is usually much more objective than old-fashioned or modern. Seeing old-fashioned characters on a groundbreaking visual device, CRT screen, was weird enough.
Even Roman in the name is a nod to the Italian school of printing from (15th century!). It would not be a stretch to say Times New Roman looks extremely old, as we already know it was designed this way. Old broom sure knows the corners (or so the saying goes), but you can see how the font may feel outdated in the 2020s.
MS WORD 2011 FOR MAC CHOOSE TIMES NEW ROMAN AS THE DEFAULT FONT UPDATE
The British newspaper The Times commissioned it in 1931 as a retro update from a regular 19th-century font to something more solid with a strong 18th-century vibe. Not quite unusual for computer fonts, Times New Roman has been around since before computers became a thing.
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