Microsoft’s Principle Software Engineering Manager, Greg Hitchcock, wrote extensively about Microsoft and Apple’s cross-license agreement for font technology back in 1989. We have Microsoft and Apple to thank for that. Stempel AG was later absorbed by the Linotype Company (this will be important later, stay with me). Stempel AG to manufacture Helvetica for traditional print and widespread reach. Haas type foundry eventually made a deal with German type foundry D. Max Miedinger designed the sans serif typeface to revitalize the company’s sans serif offerings with something more modern and international, since their current selection wasn’t doing so hot. Helvetica originated in Münchenstein, Switzerland, in 1957 as a commission for the Swiss Haas type foundry.
According to the New York Public Library, monthly magazine Woman’s Home Companion was the first to adopt Times New Roman in 1941, and the Chicago Sun-Times started using it in 1953. The Times owned exclusive rights to their font for about a year, and then it slowly began to take off with American publishers a few years later.
He was given the challenge of rebranding London’s newspaper The Times with a fresh new font, and worked with draftsman Victor Lardent to create a serif font that was efficient, in order to maximize the amount of words that could fit in a line and on a page (very important for a newspaper), and readable, since print newspapers go pretty darn small with their font sizes. Times New Roman was introduced to the world in 1932 by type designer Stanley Morison.
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