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Times Newer Roman is a Font Designed To Make Your Essays Look Longer (theverge.com)
Chaim Gartenberg, writing for The Verge: Times Newer Roman, a font from internet marketing firm MSCHF (which you may remember from the Tabagotchi Chrome extension). Times Newer Roman looks a lot like the go-to academic font, but each character is subtly altered to be 5 to 10 percent wider, making your essays look longer without having to actually make them longer. According to Times Newer Roman's website, a 15-page, single-spaced document in 12 point type only requires 5,833 words, compared to 6,680 for the standard Times New Roman. (That's 847 words you don't need to write, which is more than twice the length of this post!)
I wrote my PhD thesis in Nota Bene, which was very good word processor for DOS. I later switched to LaTeX, because university publishers liked all that postscript shit, and I felt kind of cool being the only one in the English Department who used LaTeX. Plus, I could run it on any of the weak-ass computers the department would give me before I got to be tenure-track. It made it a little complicated to collaborate with my colleagues, but by the time that was an issue, I had other options. I did have several students who submitted graduate-level work in LaTeX though, and I insisted on it for masters or PhD theses.
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