As the geometric sans serifs rose to prominence, elements such as drop shadows, gradients, background textures, and bevels began to fall away, leaving behind the flat, minimalist digital aesthetic you might see on Facebook, Airbnb, or Postmates. Arial is a decorative font that might be appropriate for headlines in some cases, other design uses, I don’t know… but Rachel Hawley does and breaks it down in “ Here’s the Typography of the Next Decade”:Īt the beginning of the 2010s, geometric sans serifs-those without serifs or contrast in stroke width, and whose letters are built around simple shapes like circles and squares-experienced a dramatic uptick in popularity within web and digital design. The overwhelming majority of guidelines from publishers and agents who demand any particular font at all will ask for Times New Roman, with a few weird old Courier holdouts, who want to pretend we all still use typewriters.Īnd for all you sans serif fans who damage the eyes of your innocent victims with huge blocks of Arial, I beg you to stop it. It’s the most readable typeface on a screen or printed. Since at least the late 90s, I’ve screamed at the top of my lungs from whatever rooftop I’ve managed to climb up on that the only font any author needs or should ever use is 12-point Times New Roman.
#Times new roman font portable#
And once the computer screen and printers moved past the era of sans serif for screen-readability’s sake, Times New Roman made its home there as well-at least until Microsoft made the incomprehensible decision to default to Calibri, which may be the least readable and least portable typeface I’ve ever come across, with the obvious exception of the truly decorative fonts.
They were so proud of their new typeface they printed a side by side comparison with its previous font, and objectively it is more readable:Įven though the Times itself thought Times New Roman was specifically a newspaper font and shouldn’t be used in books, the overall readability of it took it quickly into the book publishing world as well. Times New Roman was created by Stanley Morrison, a type designer, and Victor Lardent, a draftsman, in 1932 for the prestigious Times of London, which had the font “ tested by the highest ophthalmic authority” after following the recommendations of the British Medical Research Council’s Report on the Legibility of Print.
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