August 4, 2009
A surviving brass "B" might mean Times New Roman should be called Starling: The history of the Times New Roman typeface“Gerald sent me some pattern plates and said, ‘Do these look familiar?’” Parker said. “I said ‘yes, they’re Times Roman.’ He said, ‘No, they’re much earlier than that.’”
Posted by Vanderleun at August 4, 2009 10:29 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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No matter what it is called - it is a beautiful typeface, easy to read.
Of course, Courier was based on the mechanical carriage return typewriter, with each space being a tenth of an inch. On my old typewriter I had sixty-five spaces a line to put my letters, signs, and spaces. Sixty-five spaces a line, and remember that pencil mark at the ten inch line on the page. And that was a mere twenty years ago in undergrad.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at August 7, 2009 1:25 PM
No double spaecs please.And while you are at it make sure you are on top of your en and em dashes, tabs and indents, widows and orphans, and the biggest bug bear of them all use quote marks and not primes.You need to read The Mac is not a Typewriter by Robin Williams. A MUST!
Posted by: Pranavraj at July 14, 2012 9:36 PM