I don’t know if I can accept this. I really don’t.

I looked at the front page of the New York Times this morning, and the headline fonts looked weird. I thought perhaps there’d been a printing error or something.

But no.

The New York Times has gotten a typographical facelift.

If you click on the box to the right of the article beneath “Multimedia,” you can see what the changes look like.

The New York Times has used the same fonts for my entire life, and now they’re changing? Without warning? And even the paper’s famous banner headlines are going to look different?

“Before today’s change,” the article states, “at least six headline typefaces commonly appeared on the front page. That kind of variety was customary for newspapers in the early 20th century, possibly because metal type was too costly and scarce for printers to stock full ranges of size within a family.”

So what? This was a problem? I thought it was always kind of nice and quaint. Now they have to change it?

The new font, Cheltenham, is actually rather elegant. It’s just that I feel like I’m reading the Wall Street Journal or the International Herald Tribune or something. It doesn’t look like the Times.

Oh, I’ll get used to it, just like we eventually get used to everything new. And then one day I’ll see an old copy of the paper, and I’ll think, “Wow, that looks weird.”

When they started printing the paper in color, I liked it. I don’t know if I’m going to like this, though.

Sigh. I’m too young to be a curmudgeon.