A Ludlow Typograph specimen of Times New Roman from the metal type period. The design was altered in smaller sizes to increase readability, particularly obvious in the widened spacing of the six‐ and eight‐point samples at centre right of the diagram. The hollows at the top of upstrokes are also not seen in the standard digitizations.Twenty‐two lines in Times New Roman compared to its predecessor “modern” serif font. Times appears larger on the page, with tighter linespacing and more solid in appearance.A digitization of Times New Roman below the three typefaces originally considered as a basis for the Times project: Perpetua, Baskerville and Plantin. Times is most based on Plantin, but with the letters made taller and its appearance “modernized” by adding eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century influences, in particular enhancing the stroke contrast. Compared to Baskerville and Perpetua, the x‐height is a larger proportion of the type height.Times compared with its influences in italic. The italic was made simpler than Plantin’s, losing flourishes on the ‘w’ and ‘v’, but less radically than that of Perpetua.Some differences between Linotype’s Times Roman and Monotype’s Times New Roman typefaces.
