Zach Reich
Times Display
Source material: Times Roman
2743 Introduction to Typeface Design, Fall 2025



Times Display, inspired by Times Roman, offers a high-contrast experience for one of the most iconic classic typefaces. Featuring more dramatic stroke widths, narrower caps, and sharper serifs, Times Display displays elegance at large font sizes while remaining unmistakably Times.
I felt inspired to create this typeface because I think Times Roman loses some of its signature sharpness at large font sizes. Although Times Ten and Times Eighteen attempt to resolve this issue, I still felt that these typefaces felt too blunt and blocky at display sizes. Creating Times Display offered not only an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of typeface design, but also a chance to obtain a version of Times that remains sharp and sleek in headlines.























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