Commercial · Serif · Linotype
Times
Times is a licensed font from Linotype: Complete family of 6 fonts: $194.99 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Times is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Stanley Morison
- Released
- 1932
- Styles
- 7
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- Complete family of 6 fonts: $194.99 USD (Individual Styles from $40.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Linotype's Times, the same 1931-32 Morison and Lardent design for The Times of London as licensed to Linotype; seven styles.
Free alternatives to Times
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Times is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
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metric-compatible
Its page states it is metrically compatible with Times New Roman, so it can replace it without reflowing text; the drawing differs in detail.
Quiet luxury, approachable
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commonly substituted
A transitional text serif with similar economy and colour; wider apertures and a larger x-height than Times.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Source Serif 4 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Source Serif 4.
same classification
A transitional serif in the Fournier tradition; a comparable text-setting role with a more contemporary drawing.
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