Typography

What's the difference between "Times" and "Times New Roman" fonts in MS Word?

I don't want history, I want actual typography differences...

Public Comments

  1. they look different.
  2. They are essentially the same... but now, MS word has gone to "calbri" for the type.
  3. uhhh???
  4. I took this from wikipedia. Net: mostly the same with some subtle differences, like the % signs, etc. Although Times and Times New Roman shares the same font design, various differences developed between the versions marketed by Linotype and Monotype when the master fonts were transferred from metal to photo and digital media. For example, Linotype has slanted serifs on the capital "S", Monotype's are vertical. Most of these differences are invisible in body text at normal reading distances. (Vivid differences between the two versions do occur in the lowercase z in the italic weight and in the percent sign in all weights.) Although there was a time when Times New Roman had different widths than Times Roman, when Microsoft licensed Times New Roman for Windows, they asked Monotype to match the Adobe/Linotype widths from the PostScript font; consequently, the most common versions seen today have identical widths in common characters.
  5. theres only a few minor differnences
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