Font information

designer	Stanley Morison & Victor Lardent
year	1932
publisher	Monotype Imaging
where to buy	Fonts.com: small caps for Times New Roman Fonts.com: all styles of Times New Roman
alternative fonts	Bembo Book Equity Plantin Starling Tiempos

Notes

Plan­tin and Star­ling are based on the work of two design­ers who likely influ­enced Times New Roman: Robert Granjon and William Star­ling Burgess. Bembo Book comes from an unre­lated source — Ital­ian Renais­sance typog­ra­phy — but it has a sim­i­lar stately gait and an attrac­tive italic. See also a brief his­tory of Times New Roman.

One caveat if you use the links above to shop for more styles of Times New Roman. Mono­type Imag­ing, the com­pany that owns Times New Roman, actu­ally has two dif­fer­ent Times New Roman fam­i­lies. There’s the reg­u­lar Times New Roman, which matches the orig­i­nal metal ver­sion of the font. But then there’s also Times New Roman PS, which matches the ver­sion that ships with Mac and Win­dows as a sys­tem font. The “PS” ver­sion has tech­ni­cal adjust­ments that make it incom­pat­i­ble with the reg­u­lar Times New Roman styles.

What does this mean? You can get small caps for the system-font ver­sion of Times New Roman (aka Times New Roman PS) but that’s it. If you want to use the other weights in the fam­ily (medium, semi­bold, extra-bold), you’ll have to buy new ver­sions of all your Times New Roman styles so they’ll be com­pat­i­ble with each other.

Con­fus­ing? Yes. Your fault? No.