- The History Page: Exactly your type

Times New Roman’s a simple font with a complex story behind it

By Katherine Eastland Monday, August 15, 2011

It’s in State Department memos, vintage pages of Woman’s Home…

"Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way." — Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)