jd87: My love/hate relationship with Times New Roman

by Josh Delman

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My love/hate relationship with Times New Roman

Times New Roman, the font that I employ on this website for all of its text, is ubiquitous. It's the default font in every web browser on Windows and Mac OS X. (I'm not so sure about various builds of Linux.) I've always been somewhat of a font-nerd, and as a younger kid who loved downloading and cataloging all sorts of different fonts (search Google for free fonts to see what I mean) so seeing Times New Roman, the basic, bland serif font that everybody used all the time meant that I could never use it. I swore that I would never use it for anything, and I went on to write a whole bunch of papers in elementary school, middle school, and high school with a whole bunch of stupid fonts. Then, in college, professors started demanding Times New Roman. I started to like the font again, especially in italics. I began to live in T.N.R. Land, where the content of my writing was more important than the font I wrote with. There's a reason why the font is everywhere; it doesn't particularly stand out, but it's pretty damn good for reading. So this site is in T.N.R., and I think it looks pretty fucking good.

January 15, 2009

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