Hence, to find something similar, you want to look at other serif fonts. It follows from the above descriptions that Times New Roman is a serif font. Examples of sans-serif fonts include many fonts normally used for headlines, fonts used for computer screen menus, and so on.

This is commonly used when the font size is small relative to the medium's resolution or dot pitch, because the extra ornamentation at the end of the glyph lines would obscure the shape of the glyph itself. The ends of the glyph lines are straight and terminate abruptly.

'sans serif' fonts lack serifs (that's where the 'sans' comes from it's French for 'without'). Serif fonts are typically used in print for large blocks of text, as they are generally considered easier to read when the resolution is high enough to properly render the serif.

That's the little ornament or line at the end of the glyph lines. I don't know which exact font of those that come by default with Ubuntu 12.10 would be the closest visually to Times New Roman (though Liberation Serif seems a good fit), but: What is the closest alternative font of Times New Roman in Ubuntu 12.10? Is it serif or sans serif or something else ?

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