{"id":1993,"date":"2010-11-22T11:28:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T11:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/times_modern_an\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T14:33:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T18:33:47","slug":"times_modern_an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/times_modern_an\/","title":{"rendered":"Times Modern and the modern Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Times<\/p>\n

There’s a tendency when talking about typefaces to focus on the little details. However, this is a story about the life cycle of typefaces, specifically the way typefaces have been a crucial part of the life cycle of The Times<\/i> of London, a trusted brand that has carefully cultivated its use of typography for decades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I recently gave a talk<\/strong> at the Click<\/a> series of conferences in New York, San Francisco<\/a>, and London<\/a>, which were partly sponsored by my employer<\/a>. My talk was about the history of custom type used by The Times<\/i><\/a> of London, particularly the Times Modern family that they currently use for headlines and other display stuff in the paper and in their digital versions.<\/p>\n

Someday there should be a video available of the version I delivered in San Francisco, but until that surfaces you can also get a more refined version of the story (including a bunch of photos I took of the The Times offices here in London) in the sleek new issue of Linotype<\/a>‘s bilingual Fonts in Focus<\/a><\/i> magazine, available now<\/a> for just the price of postage.<\/p>\n

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There’s a tendency when talking about typefaces to focus on the little details. However, this is a story about the life cycle of typefaces, specifically the way typefaces have been a crucial part of the life cycle of The Times of London, a trusted brand that has carefully cultivated its use of typography for decades. … Continue reading “Times Modern and the modern Times”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71110,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/71110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}