[sgnelson]

Since TNR was designed for print and thus it seems they expected the ink to "bleed" and make the characters appear thicker than they would have been for the actual (leaded?) type face, was this taken into account when turning it into a digital type face?

From reading the article, it appears the answer is no. Has anyone made a TNR digital font that would account for how it would look if printed on 1900's newsprint?

[tracker1]

It seems to me that you'd need to create something with a different name that supported more appropriate weight settings for screen and modern printing.

That said, as soon as you head down this path, more variance will occur and in the end you'll have something even more different than just accounting for what happens to the text on news paper print.

I might have suggested Roboto Serif or another OFL (or other open licensed) font face myself.