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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 first issued by the Monotype Corporation in 1932. Although no longer used by The Times, it is still widely used for typesetting books.
In digital font systems, Times New Roman is usually the first font coded, and the font most often examined to determine the quality of the font system. Therefore, software designers and commercial organizations take particular care with it.
A version of Times New Roman was produced by 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 font in many applications, especially web browsers and word processors.
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 US diplomatic documents would use Times New Roman 14 point instead of the previous Courier New 12 point.
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The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under the name The Times since 1788; it is the original "Times" newspaper. For much of its history, the newspaper was regarded as Britain's newspaper of record.
The Times is published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International, itself wholly owned by the News Corporation group, headed by Rupert Murdoch.It has played an influential role in politics and shaping public opinion about foreign events. Some claim that, more recently, it has reflected the conservative views of Mr. Murdoch,[1] despite showing support for the Labour Party in the two last elections[2]. However, Murdoch has allied himself with Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair and has often met with him[3].
The Times is sometimes referred to by people outside the UK as "the London Times" or "The Times of London" in order to distinguish it from the many other "Times" papers such as The New York Times. However, it is the original "Times" newspaper, and is a national, not a London newspaper. It is also the originator of the ubiquitous Times New Roman typeface, originally developed by Stanley Morison of The Times in collaboration with the Monotype Corporation.
Although it was printed in broadsheet format for 200 years, it switched to compact size in 2004. Its cover price in the United Kingdom is 60p on weekdays, and £1.10 on Saturday. The Times' Sunday sister paper is The Sunday Times, a broadsheet. Its cover price is £1.60.
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