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Times New Roman is a serif typeface, produced by Monotype for Microsoft, and distributed with every copy of
Microsoft Windows since version 3.1. As with Times on the
Apple Macintosh, it is used as the default font in many applications, especially Web
browsers and word processors.
Times New Roman is Microsoft's name for the TrueType version of Times New Roman
PS, a narrower variant of Monotype's classic Times New Roman typeface. The PS version was introduced to match the metrics of
Times Roman (a PostScript core font by Linotype). Times New Roman (the original typeface) was developed for the Times in the early 1930s, and was designed by Starling Burgess, Victor Lardent and Stanley Morison. Though
no longer used by The Times, it is still widely used for typesetting books (unlike the PS version).
In 2004, the U.S.
State Department announced that as of February 1, 2004, all US diplomatic documents would use Times New Roman 14 instead of the previous Courier New 12.
See also: Arial, Verdana
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