Times New Roman |Commissioned by||The Times| Times New Roman is
a serif typeface commissioned by the British newspaper The Times
in 1931, created by Victor Lardent at the English branch of
Monotype. It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had written
an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and
typographically antiquated. The font was supervised by Morison
and drawn by Victor Lardent, an artist from the advertising
department of The Times. Morison used an older font named
Plantin as the basis for his design, but made revisions for
legibility and economy of space. Morison's revision became known
as Times New Roman and made its debut in the 3 October 1932
issue of The Times newspaper. After one year, the design was
released for commercial sale. The Times stayed with Times New
Roman for 40 years, but new production techniques and the format
change from broadsheet to tabloid in 2004 have caused the
newspaper to switch font five times since 1972. However, all the
new fonts have been variants of t