How to use Times New Roman font in LaTeX

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use Times New Roman font in LaTeX without using fontspec.

Using fontspec you can customize fonts a lot more. But if you are looking for a simple solution to use Times New Roman font in your whole article, you can use mathptmx package.

Times New Roman Font using mathptmx in LaTeX

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathptmx} % Times New Roman font
\begin{document}

You can check this font is now in Times New Roman without using fontspec

\end{document}

If you want your math symbols and equations to be in Times New Roman Font, then this mathptmx package is the best choice for you.

Output:

Other solutions:

There are a few more packages out there to do the task, but those are very similar to that font. (Not exactly the same)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath}
\begin{document}

This is text in a Times-like font.

\[
  E = mc^2
\]

\end{document}

Output:

Another package we can use is tgtermes. But this package only works with normal texts and won’t work with math symbols and equations. Take a look:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tgtermes} 
\usepackage{amsmath}  
\begin{document}

This is text in a font very similar to Times New Roman.

\[
  E = mc^2
\]

\end{document}

Output:

You can see, the equation fonts are not changed.