Comment by bsder
3 years ago
To be fair, isn't basically any font better than Times?
Wasn't the whole point of Times to be legible when printed at super high speed with super cheap ink on super crappy newsprint?
If you want maximum legibility, would the solution not be a variant of Century Schoolbook which was explicitly designed to be legible?
You are right. Times Roman was not originally intended to look how it does when printed now. Originally, the thin lines spread and the pointed serifs contracted so the result looked somewhat like Century. You can see examples of this in technical books published in the 1950s-60s.