The popularity of typefaces relies on its application on the mass media, especially computer system nowadays. Also, it can be widely adopted in textbooks in primary school.Ģ. Contrastively, Arial is better used in advertisement owing to its clearance and relative big characters. Because of readability, Times New Roman fits better in the long articles, such as newspapers and books. Generally, characters in Arial are thicker and take more space than those in Times New Roman.ġ. Single-storey ‘g’ is easier for children to read and is useful at small sizes when printing on non-porous substrates (credit card backs, pharmaceutical labels, product indicia) (Whiteny). Two-storey ‘g’ can be especially useful when designing a wordmark, or any other piece of typography designed to be seen in isolation.
Two-storey italics (g): ‘g’ can be especially useful when designing a wordmark, or any other piece of typography designed to be seen in isolation. ‘g’ in Times New Roman has an ear, a bowl, a loop and a beautiful neck linked each part while ‘g’ in Arial has a big bowl between x-height and base line with an open end. ‘g’: The versions of the lower case g is totally different, with one curly and one ‘open’. Meanwhile, the areas f counters are distinct, with one in Times New Roman bigger than that in Arial. However, the ‘o’ in Times New Roman is of Times New Roman while the ‘o’ in Arial is Vertical stress. ‘o’: both ‘o’ fits approximately between x-height and base line. Also, ‘l’ in Times New Roman is thinner than that in Arial. ‘l’: The ascender of ‘l’ in Times New Roman is above cap height while the top of ‘l’ just arrives at the cap height. Comparatively, the counterparts in Arial are of equal width. ‘X’: two diagonal strokes are of disparate width in Times New Roman: One is thick and the other is thin. ‘H’: the crossbar of Arial is longer and thicker than that in Times New Roman. Let’s explore each character specifically. Apart from the distinction of serif, there are much more disparities between the two type face. On the contrary, Arial is a sans-serif typeface that contains no serifs in all characters. Times New Roman is a serif typeface, in which we can discover serifs in characters ‘H’, ‘X’, ‘l’ in the picture. The most obvious distinction between two typefaces is serif. For the last character, I typed various letters to see which one was most attractive in comparison and finally selected ‘l’. Then in the reading, I found the differences of ‘o’ and ‘g’ very interesting so that I included them in the analysis. I picked H and x because they are letters that determine the cap height and x-height, which is the frame of all characters. The five characters I selected are H, x, l, o, g. It’s usually adopted in advertising and design.
#Who created arial font Pc
“Arial is a font that is familiar to anyone who uses Microsoft products, whether on a PC or a Mac” (The Scourge of Arial, 2001). Research about perception and comprehension proved that for text blocks it is much easier to read a font that has serifs in upper and lower case while “Sans serif” fonts are difficult to read in large text blocks, especially in long newspaper columns or book pages. The reason why Times New Roman is so widely used is readability. Because of its adoption in Microsoft products, it has become one of the most widely used typefaces in history (Wikipedia, ‘Times New Roman’). Times New Roman is used frequently in book typography, particularly in mass-market paperbacks in the United States. The font was supervised by Stanley Morison, who adopted an older font named Plantin as the basis, but “made revisions for legibility and economy of space” (Wikipedia, ‘Times New Roman’).Īrial is a sans-serif typeface designed in 1982 by a 10-person team, led by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders, for Monotype Typography (Wikipedia, ‘Arial’). Times New Roman is a serif typeface commissioned by the British newspaper The Times in 1931, created by Victor Lardent, an artist from the advertising department of The Times. I choose the most popular two typefaces Times New Roman and Arial and then compare their history, usage and the anatomy of anatomize five characters of each to see their differences and similarities.