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Times Newer Roman Font Makes Academic Papers Look Longer

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday September 20 2018, @04:20AM   
from the bigger-but-less-filling dept.

DannyB writes:

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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Original Submission

• Need a Baskerville version or similar (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 20 2018, @10:38AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 20 2018, @10:38AM (#737439)

  Need a Baskerville version or similar:
  https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/hear-all-ye-people-hearken-o-earth/ [nytimes.com]

  tldr; Baskerville is a more convincing typeface than a number of others tested:

  Baskerville is different from the rest. I’d call it a 1.5% advantage, in that that’s how much higher agreement is with it relative to the average of the other fonts. That advantage may seem small, but if that was a bump up in sales figures, many online companies would kill for it. The fact that font matters at all is a wonderment.

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