The Times Newer Roman font is specially designed to make your work look bigger.
If you're a college or high school student, or even a professional writer, and you've been assigned a long paper, say five pages, in Times New Roman 12pt font size, you might need a little help if you get stuck on the fourth σελίδα and you don't know what else to write.
The usual tricks one does when one is in this position and wants to make an essay look longer are to use longer spaces, lots of commas, large margins, and perhaps try to increase the font size. In the quiver of the naughty student there is now an easier solution: the Times Newer Roman font. Times Newer Roman is a font made by MSCHF, and is very similar to the Times New Roman university font, but each character changes gently to be 5 to 10% longer. So with a simple conversion you will see your essays look longer.
According to the Times Newer Roman website, a 15-page, 12pt single-page document requires only 5.833 words, compared to the 6.680 required by the standard Times New Roman. (The difference is 847 words you do not need to write, which is more than double this article!)
More specifically, Times New Roman is a licensed font, while Times Newer Roman is actually a modified one version of Nimbus Roman No.9 L (1), which is a free and open source font code. The changes made by MSCHF simply make the Nimbus Roman No.9 L characters wider, leaving the vertical heights untouched. They find this makes it harder to tell the difference between Times Newer Roman and Times New Roman.
Keep in mind that in our digital age such gimmicks have some downsides. Times Newer Roman will only work for assignments that need to be submitted by hand or in PDF. If you're sending a Word document using a custom font that the professors almost certainly won't have installed, then this solution won't help. Likewise, Times Newer Roman is only useful for requiring large numbers of pages. If you have a strict limit measurementof words, then you're out of luck.
Times Newer Roman is available for free at this link. Please note that iGuRu does not suggest that you deceive anyone by modifying your essays in any way.
