![]() ![]() So it was an accident of history (the massive popularity of TrueType and Windows) that led to Times New Roman becoming massively popular. During the 90s, Windows came to dominate on desktop computers Microsoft Office became the standard for documents and in the late 90s, Internet Explorer began to dominate the web, using whatever fonts came along on the system to display web pages. Windows included three fonts by default to match these, in terms of style, functionality, and metrics: Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier New.įrom there after, anywhere Windows went, along with it came Times New Roman, and it was the default font for Microsoft Word documents as well. ![]() On OS 7, Apple released several TrueType fonts, among which were included Times Roman, Helvetica, and Courier. Microsoft released Windows version 3.1 in 1991, which came with a slew of features which were game-changing, like OLE, the Registry, common dialogs, and TrueType fonts. Previously, Mac OS and Windows used bitmap fonts for all parts of the interface. TrueType wasn't the first outline font (Type 1 fonts, made by Adobe and used in Postscript, I believe came first), but it became part of Mac OS 7, and Apple licensed it freely for use with Microsoft Windows. I don't necessarily agree that Times New Roman is the "most accepted" and "most well known" font, but it's gotten around plenty since 1991, and this has to do with the history of TrueType fonts. ![]()
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