jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

How did Times New Roman originate?

https://www.howtogeek.com/trivia/the-now-ubiquitous-times-new-roman-font-was-originally-commissioned-by/

Marionsho Loc: Kansas

Thanks Jerry. Now I know.

jmvaugh Loc: Albuquerque

I guessed the right answer before seeing the answer. Yeah. Thanks Jerry for the trivia question.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

It explains the meaning of that term, too. It's the new version of the Roman font for The London Times.

Actually, "font" is the wrong term. It should be "typeface." "Font" includes color, size, formatting - everything about how it appears, while "typeface" refers to the basic shape.

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

Don't know, Jerry, but it is a dumb enough name for a font, that I think the NY Times may be involved. (<:))

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Many fonts use "Roman" in their name.

https://fonts2u.com/category.html?id=32

drucker Loc: Oregon

In describing typestyles, "roman" can mean two things.

1) "Roman" styles as used for English and most European languages as opposed to Greek, Chinese, or Arabic styles of lettering.

2) Or as in the Times case, a style of letter that has distinctive weight variations to various strokes of the letter, The vertical strokes are usually bracketed at the top and/or bottom with "serifs" and thus are known as "serif fonts."

This as opposed to "sans-serif fonts" (without serifs) that are geometric in structure with little or no differences in the weight of the strokes. Commonly used fonts in this category are Ariel, Helvetica, and Univers.