Garamond is a predecessor to the Times Roman font, a design commissioned in 1933 for renovation of the print of the London Times newspaper and arguably the western world's most popular font. The design offered both legibility and a durability useful on the high-speed newspaper presses of the era. Times Roman is called a Transitional typeface after the typefaces of the seventeenth and eighteenth century from which its design was taken. Transitional designs updated Old Style models and are so called because they interceded between the Old Style and the Modern. They feature a stronger stroke contrast than their ancestors. Because of their appearance -- curved, with rounder letters, a vertical stress, and thicker coved serifs -- and their ubiquitous presence as the standard for newsprint, Transitional styles -- Times Roman especially -- have become a kind of generic model, the default, for a serifed font.