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{{Infobox font
| name = Times New Roman
| image   = [[Image:TNRsp.png|250px|Times New Roman]]
| style   = [[Serif]]
| classifications = Transitional<br>[[PANOSE]]: 2263545234
| releasedate = [[1931]]
| creator = [[Stanley Morison]]<br>[[Starling Burgess]]<br>[[Victor Lardent]]
| foundry = [[Monotype Corporation|Monotype]]
| commissioned_by = [[The Times|The London Times]]
| sample  =
|}}
[[Image:TimesandGeorgia.svg|right|thumb|250px|'''Size and spacing comparisons''' of the Georgia and Times New Roman typefaces.]]

'''Times New Roman''' is a [[serif]] [[typeface]] commissioned by ''[[The Times]]'' ([[London]]) newspaper in [[1931]] and designed by [[Stanley Morison]] together with Starling Burgess and Victor Lardent. It was commissioned to address the problems of high-speed printing on low quality newsprint. It was first issued by the [[Monotype Corporation]] in [[1932]]. Although no longer used by ''The Times,'' it is still widely used for book typography.

Because of its ubiquitous nature, Times New Roman has been influential in the subsequent development of a number of serif typefaces both before and after the start of the digital-font era.  One notable example is [[Georgia (typeface)|Georgia]], shown at right, which has very similar stroke shapes to Times New Roman but wider serifs.

A version of Times New Roman was produced by [[Monotype Corporation|Monotype]] for [[Microsoft]], and distributed with every copy of [[Microsoft Windows]] since version 3.1. As with Times on the [[Apple Macintosh]], it is used as the default [[typeface|font]] in many [[application software|applications]], especially [[web browser]]s and [[word processor]]s. Microsoft has however replaced Times New Roman with [[Calibri]], a [[sans-serif]] font, as the default font in [[Microsoft Office 2007]]. <ref>[http://fadtastic.net/2006/05/27/the-end-of-an-era-for-times-new-roman/ The end of an era for Times New Roman?] - Andrew Whitacre, Fadtastic.net, accessed [[May 27]], [[2006]]</ref>

Times New Roman is Microsoft's name for the [[TrueType]] version of Times New Roman PS, a narrower variant of Monotype's classic Times New Roman typeface.  The PS version was introduced to match the metrics of Times Roman (a [[PostScript]] core font by [[Linotype]]). It has the lighter capitals which were originally developed for printing German (where all nouns begin with a capital letter).

In [[2004]], the [[U.S. State Department]] announced that as of [[February 1]], [[2004]], all U.S. diplomatic documents would use 14 [[point (typography)|point]] Times New Roman instead of the previous 12 point [[Courier (font)|Courier New]].

==Times Roman==
'''Times Roman''' is a body text, [[typeface|serif typeface]]. It is [[Linotype]]'s licensed version of [[Monotype]]'s Times New Roman typeface.

The differences between Times Roman and Times New Roman PS are mostly a [[trademark]] issue.  Although there are subtle stylistic differences (for example, Linotype has slanted [[serif]]s on the capital S, Monotype's are vertical), most are invisible in body text at normal reading distances. (Vivid differences between the two versions do occur in the lowercase z in the italic weight and in the percent sign in all weights.) Although there was a time when Times New Roman had different widths than Times Roman, when Microsoft licensed Times New Roman for Windows, they asked Monotype to match the Adobe/Linotype widths from the PostScript font; as such, the most common versions seen today have identical widths in common characters.

[[Microsoft Windows]] computers feature [[Monotype]]'s Times New Roman PS while [[Apple Macintosh|Mac]] computers have [[Linotype]]'s Times Roman (simply named ''‘Times’''). Computers running [[Open Source]] operating systems generally have [[URW]]'s Nimbus Roman No9 L, which is URW's [[PostScript]] version of Times Roman, released under the [[GNU General Public License]].

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==See also==
* [[Arial]]
* [[Verdana]]
* [[Core fonts for the Web]]
* [[List of typefaces]]
* [[Unicode fonts]]

==External links==
* [http://typophile.com/wiki/times_new_roman Typowiki: Times New Roman]
* [http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/detail.htm?pid=205376&page_id=24083&SCOPE=Fonts Times New Roman (classic version)]
* [http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FID=9&FNAME=Times%20New%20Roman  Times New Roman font information] (Microsoft typography)
* [http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/times32.exe?download  Downloadable version of Times New Roman] ([[Core fonts for the Web]])
* ''[http://www.truetype-typography.com/articles/times.htm Times (New) Roman and its part in the Development of Scalable Font Technology]''—Times Roman vs. Times New Roman

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