Memo from Marco Rubio reportedly said cutting Calibri from official communication would ‘abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program
US diplomats have been ordered to return to using the Times New Roman typeface in official communications, with secretary of state Marco Rubio calling the Biden administration’s decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
The department under Rubio’s predecessor Antony Blinken switched to Calibri in 2023, claiming the modern sans-serif typeface was more accessible for people with disabilities because it did not have the decorative angular features and was the default in Microsoft products.
San serif fonts are my jam. Screw TNR for regular use. Serif fonts have their place when you’re trying to give a document a certain feel, but nothing beats Arial or Calibri for regular reading for me.
Not just any sans serif.
Grotesques is where it’s at.
Maybe some geometrics for variety, or neo-grotesques if you need something simple and boring.
Those look right up my alley. Thanks!
scans wikipedia article
Hell, yeah! Helvetica!
What in the goddamn actual fuck?
OK, now is the time to finally win the vi/Emacs war. We just need to convince the GOP that Emacs was designed to help a disadvantaged population compete in the workforce, and we’re on the way to banning it! This will be my greatest success.
Welcome to the culture war I guess, Calibri. God, this timeline is dumb.
Fascist timelines always are.
Yep! That’s a very pressing and important issue to address. That’s exactly what will make America great again!
Switch everything to Impact Bold. Go loud or go home.
Its got what readers crave
The experts and my own eyeballs agree that Calibri is slightly easier to read than Times New Roman, and it’s an improvement in legibility that means a lot to people with poor eyesight. But Republicans don’t give a shit about people with vision issues, probably think they should pull their eyes up by their bootstraps, so Times New Roman it is.
Why can’t they just use Helvetica like any normal bureaucratic institution?
Because the Swiss are foreign
Actually, it’s a little surprising now that I think of it that the US government never designed its own official font. That’s exactly the sort of weird shit any administration might try
Yeah, even Italy designed their official font. It’s called Titillium.
Instinctively I feel like doing that is a bad idea, since it makes it easier for scammers to create documents that have the feel of authority when trying to con people.
Now that we’re on this topic, Aptos sucks
But I think it’s still better than Calibri.
Is this rage bait? Feels like rage bait.
It’s more stupid shit to flood the zone.
look i know literally everyone says this and it’s overdone by this point, but it’s true: we are in the onion timeline
Performative cruelty. So hot right now.
Switching to German Fraktur typeface would’ve been too on the nose.
The Nazis abolished Fraktur because they were thought to be influenced by Hebrew letters. They preferred Antiqua after 1941. There’s a bit of interesting history surrounding fonts and the Nazis. Their party newspaper Völkischer Beobachter used a font designed by a Jew.
This reminds me of Reagan removing solar panels from the white house just to spite the libs. We spent good money installing those, and they only served to save money down the road. It probably took even more money to uninstall them with 0 benefits in doing so. Just leave it, literally is hurting nothing at all.
It really feels like all of this is just fire and movement to confuse those that are not paying attention, or unable to. Make it easier for the proles to land on the decision to bury their heads in the sand.
This administration is a master class in insecurity projection.
Culture wars are all Republicans have. Their prime objective is to get people arguing over things that don’t matter.
which why thier primary policy of concern, just before the election is “wokeness”
I think they should have been changed straight out to comic sans.
Or Papyrus!
