I agree. I think this is one of those situations where a descriptive epithet transformed into an official moniker. Original, casual references to The Times’s new roman, became Times New Roman.Somewha… (View Post)
As I recall, the “grading” concept was developed at Font Bureau primarily by Tobias Frere-Jones, along with Mike Parker, in the context of a project sponsored by the Poynter Institute for Newspaper S… (View Post)
FWIW, there is precedent for -mañjari being used by the Sanskrit poet Kṣemendra for various verse collections of stories abridged from longer epics — e.g. Ramāyaṇamañjari, Bhāratamañjari. Perhaps tha… (View Post)