Commercial · Serif · Monotype
Times New Roman
Times New Roman is a licensed font from Monotype: Complete family of 12 fonts: $356.99 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 4 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 New Roman 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, Victor Lardent, Victor Lardent Stanley Morison
- Released
- 1932
- Styles
- 12
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- Complete family of 12 fonts: $356.99 USD (Individual Styles from $67.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
The newspaper text face Stanley Morison supervised and Victor Lardent drew for The Times of London, commissioned in 1931 and based on Plantin with revisions for legibility and economy; 12 styles on MyFonts.
Free alternatives to Times New Roman
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Times New Roman 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
The Tinos webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Tinos.
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
The PT Serif webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not PT Serif.
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.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Newsreader webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Newsreader.
same classification
A text serif intended for continuous on-screen reading in content-rich environments; a comparable newspaper-text role.
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