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It sure looks like it was designed by committee. It is one of the ugliest typefaces I have ever seen and, having studied typography, I have seen some really shitty ones. What were they thinking with the f and r? This is Times New Roman all over again.


Huh? Times New Roman is at least acceptable; it's legible and was designed by a real type designer. Plex is a complete joke.


Times New Roman was designed to squeeze as much text on a page as possible, probably to make more room for ads.

Makes me wonder why it's not more popular today.


Clarification: Times New Roman was designed for the London Times newspaper in 1929.

Silly me, I... heh, the first time I ever saw TnR was in relation to MS Word. And so I read this sentence thinking first about screen resolution, then "but why would you print ads in your documents"...


The square t also makes my eyes bleed.




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