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tl;dr — Fonts can influence the perceptions of the reader. Whether they can substantially raise your grades is an open question and no scientifically rigorous study seems to have been performed on the point. An anecdotal study on the point suggests that Georgia and Times New Roman will result in higher grades than Trebuchet MS. A more sophisticated study ...
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Do the owners of the typefaces Garamond, Times New Roman and Georgia charge businesses who use them?
I selected Times New Roman as an example for this answer.
The Wikipedia page on Times New Roman does a better job than I could of explaining the history of the typeface, including that, yes, its owner, Monotype has a proprietary licence available for it.
Licenses can be purchased from Monotype. [I hope you will appreciate this is a reference to show that ...
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I opted for tweeting the author as I stumbled onto this thread
https://twitter.com/VincentConnare/status/923562975952363521
I wrote
@VincentConnare Was there any actual concern that the EU would take legal action on the Euro sign with eye proposal?
To which he replied
Monitery symbols are used with numerals; all are on a figure width, the same as ...
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Though not addressing any sort of "speed" reading, a review of literature suggests no statistically significant difference.
Loh et al. studied 66 college students in 2002. They found the mean times to read passages with two spaces after each period was longer than reading passages with one space, but with their small sample size were unable to conclude ...
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From American Legion Magazine (March 1949), page 23:
they're playing down the fact that these are old pictures. So the movie goer pays his money to see a movie-usually it has big names and these are played up-and he finds he's been rooked by an old turkey that he wouldn't have paid a dime to see ten years ago....Of course every picture has a copyright ...
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Do the owners of the typefaces Garamond, Times New Roman and Georgia charge businesses who use them?
If you have a Mac, the "FontBook" application displays all the fonts, with lots of individual information, including the licensing information. In the case of Times New Roman, the following licensing information is there:
This typeface is the property of Monotype Typography and its use by
you is covered under the terms of a license agreement. You have
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