User:Gsmith144/Victor Lardent

Times New Roman section
Lardent worked as a draftsman in the publicity department of The Times newspaper at the time Stanley Morison was commissioned to create a new typeface for the publication. Morison claims that he created sketches for the typeface and gave them to Lardent, who created a finished product. However, this account has been called into question by historians. James Moran, in his 1971 book Stanley Morison: His Typographic Achievement, states that "Morison could sketch a layout but was no draughtsman." Furthermore, Lardent was not a type designer and therefore would not have been able to create a finished typeface. Lardent claimed that Morison gave him a photocopy of a page set in Plantin from which he created the initial drawings for Times New Roman. It has been noted that Morison could have given Lardent a specimen sheet of Plantain as well. Lardent was reportedly resentful until his death at what he perceived to be a lack of proper recognition for his efforts in creating the font.