Type History

Times New Roman was commissioned by The Times of London in 1929 and first used in 1932 to replace an outdated, spindly font with a more legible, compact, and efficient design. Designed by Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent based on the 16th-century Plantin typeface, it was engineered for high readability and tight space-saving on newspaper print.

Arial is a sans-serif typeface in the neo-grotesque style. The typeface was designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders, for Monotype Typography It is metrically compatible with Helvetica, enabling documents to use either typeface without affecting the visual layout.

Calibri is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Dutch designer Lucas de Groot between 2002 and 2004, commissioned by Microsoft for the ClearType font collection. Released with Windows Vista in

Atkinson Hyperlegible is a freely available typeface built around a grotesque sans-serif core, intended to be optimally legible for readers who are partially visually impaired, with all characters maximally distinguishable from one another. It won Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Award for Graphic Design in 2019 and was shortlisted for a graphic design award by Dezeen in 2020.

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