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Times Newer Roman is a new font to make academic papers appear longer.
Times Newer Roman is designed to add length to any academic paper that has page requirements and also requires the use of Times New Roman.
[...] This means that a paper of given word count will have more length when rendered in Times Newer Roman instead of the old Times New Roman—hopefully without being noticeable to whoever's job it is to grade the paper.
Bigger and therefore better academic papers help advance the state of the art.
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Times Newer Roman Font Makes Academic Papers Look Longer
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by pipedwho on Thursday September 20 2018, @04:48AM (5 children)
Looking at the side by side comparison at the bottom of the linked page. The Times Newer Roman example is far more legible and 'easier on the eye' than the Times New Roman example. This has always been something that annoyed me about Times New Roman. It just isn't as easy to read as other serif fonts. Well to me anyone.
I went to the linked page to have a laugh, but actually came out surprised that I prefer the Times Newer Roman font for general aesthetic and readability reasons.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 20 2018, @05:04AM (3 children)
Honestly, this. The way it renders looks pretty different than Times New Roman proper too.
It's probably because it's not actually based on Times New Roman, but it's really nice and clean anyway.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Thursday September 20 2018, @05:16AM (2 children)
it's pretty readable, but since I'm at war (losing) with whitespace, I can't say I approve of yet another reason to reduce information density.
You can achieve a similar result using the fine letter spacing controls in Pagemaker, with any font.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday September 20 2018, @05:41AM (1 child)
While this font could be used throughout the web, I think it's destined to be used primarily by lazy college students.
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(Score: 2) by RamiK on Thursday September 20 2018, @09:25AM
FTFY. Since MLA specifies 12pt, double spaced, 1inch margin sans-serif fonts, a modification to Times New Roman only affects Chicago-style departments.
Btw, Latex bib packages suck so don't look for a solution there.
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday September 20 2018, @04:02PM
Same here. I was like -- what's the joke? This is a nice improvement across the board!
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