Ask Ninja 04: NY Times
Ninja August 1st, 2007
Q: This is for a project I’m working on. What’s the typeface being used by the New York Times?
A: Ed Benguiat drew the masthead. As of 2003, the NY Times decided to give the paper a typographical “facelift” (pun intended) + set all the headlines using a single font family, Cheltenham (designed by Matthew Carter specifically for the NY Times). The body text remains Imperial (designed by Edwin W. Shaar).
Other faces from the NY Times past include Latin Extra Condensed, Century Bold Italic, + Bookman.
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Ninja =)
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