The American company Monotype, which owns the rights to Times New Roman, Arial, Verdana, Tahoma and Helvetica fonts, has closed the access of Russian users to its library on the site. The newspaper reports vedomosti With reference to sources in Russian IT companies.
It has been clarified that when trying to open a page with a catalog of fonts, the user sees a message about access denied. In this case, the directory becomes available when using a VPN.
Times New Roman, popular in Russia, was designed in 1932 by typographer Stanley Morison and artist Victor Laerdent. It was originally used by The Times newspaper. The font contributed to the readability and economy of space on the page. Until 2007, the font was used by default by the Microsoft operating system.
The Arial font is a neo-grotesque computer font belonging to the sans-serif font, similar to the Helvetica font. Used by Windows, macOS, and other PostScript software.
It was organized in 1982 by a team of ten, led by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Sanders. Available in Arial Black, Bold, Extra Bold, Condensed, Italic, Light, Medium, Monospaced, Narrow and Rounded colors.
Earlier it was reported that some official portals of the federal and regional departments of the Russian Federation are still open. to continue Download codes from foreign Internet sources. According to the publication, not all Russian departments have complied with the order of the Ministry of Digital Transformation to remove code downloaded from foreign sources from their portal. A number of builds download fonts from the servers of Google and other foreign companies.
Source: Gazeta
