Make Your Term Paper 10% Longer With This Font
Listen to me, professional writer: in high school and college you are taught bad writing habits. One of these bad habits is to keep the number of pages to a minimum. Anything you do to “trick” the page counter by making less text look like more is an act of noble rebellion. And the new Times Newer Roman font is a great, hard-to-find filling tool.
The digital agency MSCHF has carefully designed Times Newer Roman to take up more space while still being consistent with Times New Roman. So if you submit an article in this font, it will look the same as all other articles, and your teacher or professor is unlikely to notice anything. This is a huge advantage over other filling methods, such as very wide spacing or larger font sizes, which become apparent when placed next to properly formatted text.
MSCHF designed the font by customizing the free Nimbus Roman No. 9, which is very similar to Times New Roman. The MSCHF designers have carefully expanded the letters and punctuation to make the text a little wider. According to them, they “expanded individual letters along the x-axis where it is least noticeable, while maintaining stroke width and harmonious curve modeling.” The differences are so subtle that you can look at the same text in two fonts, see one taking up more space, and still not figure out how.
You can use this on any paper you print or export to PDF. But this will not work if you are transferring a Word document, as Word will not embed the font unless the recipient has already installed that font on their computer. And you probably shouldn’t be hatching an elaborate plan to secretly install fonts on your professor’s computer. At this point, you should probably just add a few paragraphs of nonsense.
There are many agencies out there trying to create viral internet projects, but the MSCHF is one of the few that create really useful and fun tools. Michelle Wu previously talked about the MSCHF Tabagotchi Chrome extension designed to advertise for Breather, a co- office company. They also made a morning riser tracking app and awkward conversation generator for the Amazon Echo. Times Newer Roman is not made for sponsors; the only thing it advertises is the MSCHF itself and the nonsensical page minimums.
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