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[bryant]

You know what? This document was not created in 1973. Maybe it's a transcription, but that's Times New Roman, and those are curly apostrophes, and there's just no way. Also, it's a lousy CYA memo, since it's just claims with no backing evidence.

CBS needs to provide an evidence trail for those memos, or give up on their authenticity.

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Not to argue, because I don't think it matters...

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

But...The font in the memo doesn't match my "Times New Roman" very well at all. The bottom of the descender in the "j" is wrong. The top of the "i" below the dot is flat not slanted. The "t" isn't curved properly. The width of the Capital "H" crossbar looks wrong. It may be related to Times Roman, but it's not TNR. It's not Times Roman, either. Or any of the fonts on my system.

Why do you think it's TNR? And if it is, why is that relevant? Times Roman was commissioned in 1932 and was in use in Typewriters long before 1973.

Re: Not to argue, because I don't think it matters...

[bryant]

Gotta allow for some distortion via fax and copying process, though. And much to my regret, no matter how many times I look at it, the letterspacing is the same. If I type four or five lines of text and switch the typeface around -- serif text typefaces in all cases -- I find that the line breaks come after different words with each typeface. So I'm pretty damned sure it's Times Roman.

It's relevant because Occam's Razor applies here.

Re: Not to argue, because I don't think it matters...

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

Occam's Razor would not allow you to say that all the vertical lines are clearly vertical, but there is even distortion in the tops of the horizontal serifs that makes the serif marks turn from the Times New Roman angle (or even the Times Roman angle, they're slightly different) to be 90 degrees from the vertical.

The characters are just different. Don't take my word for it, try any passage with lowercase "b","d","t","i", etc. on the Linotype sample page for TNR. Compare the letter shapes between the PDF and the generated TNR sample.
http://www.linotype.com/webshop/fontsampler/rip.class?&fname=Times+New+Roman%99+Roman&id=13296

The case as stated doesn't hold up. Doesn't mean it's not correct, just that this isn't proof.