Lido STF Font Family
A commercial license is available at MyFonts. Times with a Human Face: In my article of the same name which appeared in the magazine Font volume 2000 I described the long and trying story of an order for a typeface for the Czech periodical Lidové noviny (Peoples Newspaper). My task was to design a modification of the existing Times. The work however finally resulted in the complete re-drawing of the typeface. The assignment which was on the whole wisely formulated was to design a typeface which would enable “a smooth flow of information in the readers eye” therefore a typeface without any artistic ambitions from which everything which obstructs legibility would be eliminated. A year later Lidové noviny had a different manager who in the spring of 2001 decided to resume the cooperation. The typeface itself definitely profited from this; I simplified everything which could be simplified but it still was not “it” because the other and obviously more important requirement of the investor held: “the typeface must look like Times”. And that is why the above-mentioned daily will continue to be printed by a system version of Times negligently adjusted to local conditions which is unfortunately a far cry from the original Times New Roman of Stanley Morison.