Talk:Literaturnaya

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Who on earth would confuse this with Times New Roman? They look nothing alike. —Chowbok 00:55, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

I think you're right, but here, in Bulgaria many people make mistakes and they claim that Literaturnaya is Times New Roman. However, I deleted the Literaturnaya vs. Times New Roman section. Stanton BG 16:09, 3 April 2006 (UTC)Stanton_BG

[edit] Comparison with Times New Roman

I would like to have a section with the comparison of Times New Roman and Literaturnaya. They aren't that simmilar, but it's interesting since both are serif typefaces that are commonly used for books and newspapers, but the use is splitted geographicly. Other articles also compare fonts with each other, for instance Arial is compared with Helvetica. // Liftarn

I deleted it. The comparison was unsourced (a Wikipedia policy violation) and pointless, and poorly written. Arial might be compared with Helvetica, but that's because the two fonts are similar, one is used as a stand-in for the other, and there is an actual controversy regarding the fact that Arial is regarded as a bit of a Helvetica-clone. There's not really much more reason to compare Literaturnaya to Times New Roman than to compare it to Comic Sans or Chancery Gothic.--Aim Here 23:24, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

I restored it. Improve the writing if you want, but don't blank it. I find it very annoying when some editors blank an entire section because a spelling error or something. // Liftarn

It's not a spelling error. The entire paragraph is pointless crud. It's unsourced. It's original research. It's one person's opinion, and it's a trivial opinion. EVERY typeface has different letter shapes from every other typeface. There is no reason for the paragraph to be in the encyclopedia. If you want this idiotic paragraph kept in, you must, as a matter of Wikipedia policy, have this paragraph sourced with multiple independent secondary sources showing that whatever controversy you're writing about actually matters to someone on this planet. As far as I know, nobody writes books, journal articles or films documentaries that devote any serious thought as to whether Literaturnaya happens to have different letter shapes from Times New Roman (unlike the Arial/Helvetica thing you cite, or the 'Ban Comic Sans' affair). You had better justify this crud in terms of Wikipedia policies, or I will certainly take it out again. --Aim Here 17:35, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SimSun

The latin characters in the SimSun typeface (distributed by Microsoft with its Windows operating system) looks a bit simmilar to Literaturnaya. There are also some obvious differences like the capital A. Is there a relation there? // Liftarn