Unusual for spring, the form of restrictions provided for the American company Monotype Imaging, known as the developer of popular printed fonts.

On its website, she closed access to the library of such well-known types of fonts, like Times New Roman, Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica and the entire Monotype family. This was noted in Russian IT companies.

Go to the site with fonts will only be through the VPN service. Western fonts have a multi-year story.

So, Times New Roman dates back to 1932. He was invented by Stanley Maorison and Victor Lorent, and he acquired worldwide fame after use in the British newspaper The Times, where the font helped save newspaper space. Also until 2007, it was the default font in Windows operating systems.

Helvetica was created in the middle of the last century in Switzerland the authors of Max Midinger and Eduard Hoffman after the desire of one of the local companies to modernize the old font Haas Grotesk.

Tahoma and Verdana were developments for Microsoft from British Matthew Carter. They used both low-resolution screens.

Finally, no less popular arial was created as an alternative for Helvetica due to problems with copyright.

MONOTYPE will not be delivered any significant problems, because On the Internet there are quite a few free libraries of any top fonts, so the solution turned out to be more image than practical.

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