 Monotype 's development of Ehrhardt took place under the influence of executive and historian of printing Stanley Morison , not long after their successful creation of Times New Roman , which had also been ( more loosely ) inspired by Dutch Baroque printing . It began from a recognition that the Janson designs were well @-@ respected by fine printers of the Arts and Crafts period such as Daniel Berkeley Updike , who could print books from them using hand @-@ set type cast from surviving original matrices owned by the Stempel company of Germany . Morison had discussed what he knew of their history with Updike in their extensive correspondence from the 1920s onwards . Modernised versions of the Janson designs were being created by Linotype and Monotype 's American branch at the same time . In addition , Morison was interested in the history of printing in Leipzig , a centre of the German book trade , and would later write an article on the topic . 
