Times New Roman is a serif typeface designed for legibility in body text. With a history that can be dated back to 1931, the font is very common in books and general publishing, as well as the internet.
Let's say that a person is creating an essay that needs to be at least ten pages with 12 size Times New Roman, but just run out of words to say. As writers, he can easily do tricks like using larger punctuation marks and spaces, play with the margins or some others.
But there is another way, and that is by using 'Times Newer Roman'.
The font from the internet marketing company MSCHF is simply a sneaky font that "kinda looks like Times New Roman, except each character is 5-10% wider." This should make essays longer, without having to make them longer.
Here's a side-by-side comparison of Times New Roman and Times Newer Roman, and the difference is incredibly subtle.
According to Times Newer Roman’s website, a 15-page, single-spaced document in 12 point type only requires 5,833 words. This is significantly less for the standard Times New Roman that requires at least 6,680 words.
Putting it by the number, that is 847 words less to type.
Times New Roman is a licensed font. To get around that fact, MSCHF made Times Newer Roman as “an altered version of Nimbus Roman No.9 L (1), a free and open-source font meant to mimic the size and look of the original Times New Roman typeface."
So what MSCHF did, was simply making the Nimbus Roman No.9 L characters a bit wider, and keeping the vertical heights untouched. Hopefully, this should make it difficult for people to notice their differences.
While this can be a solution to some, there is some drawbacks.
For example, the Times Newer Roman can only work for essays people have to submit by printed form or in a PDF. if users submit the document in Word, the font will only register if it's also available on the recipient's computer. What's more, Times Newer Roman is only useful for hitting larger page counts; if users have a strict word count limit, then they're stuck and out of luck.
Times Newer Roman that was previously in beta, is available as a free download. The font has already met with mixed reviews from academia and students alike.