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Re:A brief history of Times New Roman by creata on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @10:32AM (#46289780)
That's because it's not an article, it's a section of Butterick's book. (He also has a book at https://practicaltypography.com/ that isn't targeted at lawyers, and I think a lot of the content overlaps.)

I agree that he's a bit too mean to mainstream fonts, though.

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Re:A brief history of Times New Roman by nephihaha on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @06:25PM (#46307033)
The problem with some of the less mainstream fonts is that they are not always readily available/transferrable. I don't tend to have issues with TNR going funny in another format. As for Helvetica, I don't think Microsoft supports it and created Arial which is an inferior version of it.
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