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The Times newspaper has commissioned various successors to Times New Roman: Times Europa was designed by Walter Tracy in 1972 for The Times, as a sturdier alternative to the Times font family, designed for the demands of faster printing presses and cheaper paper. [130]
Typefaces commonly or formerly used for newspaper and magazine publishing. Pages in category "Newspaper and magazine typefaces" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
The typeface San Francisco replicated the ransom note effect.. In typography, the ransom note effect is the result of using an excessive number of juxtaposed typefaces.It takes its name from the appearance of a stereotypical ransom note or poison pen letter, with the message formed from words or letters cut randomly from a magazine or a newspaper in order to avoid using recognizable handwriting.
An agate font is commonly used to display statistical data or legal notices in newspapers. It is considered to be the smallest point size that can be printed on newsprint and remain legible. [ citation needed ]
Retina is a font by created by Tobias Frere-Jones for The Wall Street Journal, which used it for high density print in their newspapers from 2000 to 2007.It was created to be legible at very small font sizes, using ink traps to stop smearing during the printing process.
Type fonts were stored digitally on conventional magnetic disk drives. Computers excel at automatically typesetting and correcting documents. [ 7 ] Character-by-character, computer-aided phototypesetting was, in turn, rapidly rendered obsolete in the 1980s by fully digital systems employing a raster image processor to render an entire page to a ...
The nameplate (American English) or masthead (British English) [1] [2] of a newspaper or periodical is its designed title as it appears on the front page or cover. [3] Another very common term for it in the newspaper industry is "the flag". It is part of the publication's branding, with a specific font and, usually, color.
Many of the older fonts were intended mainly for use in newspaper columns. Times New Roman is a good example, but there were many others. The descenders were kept as short as possible in such fonts so that all the text could be set with the same line spacing.