The italic and bold of Times New Roman are adapted from standard newspaper fonts of the era and have no relation to the Roman which has its roots in Plantin. Th

The italic and bold of Times New Roman are adapted from standard newspaper fonts of the era and have no relation to the Roman which has its roots in Plantin. The whole development of TNR was a bit of a boondoggle and the face was received coolly by The Times when it was finally available for their use. A big part of the ubiquity of TNR is the fact that Monotype created a large number of extensions to the type family for specialized uses such as mathematics and non-Latin typesetting.