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Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department's Official Typeface

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/rubio-state-department-font.html
10•hdk•59m ago

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slater•50m ago
Stopped clock, twice right?
techblueberry•35m ago
What was wasted?
TehCorwiz•28m ago
So, Rubio blames the DEI boogey-person for... <checks notes> the Calibri typeface. And they replaced with Times New Roman. Ya know, given the far-right's fetish for some imagined fictional Roman empire where their ideas reigned this feels a bit on the nose.
treetalker•19m ago
Butterick on TNR:

(https://practicaltypography.com/times-new-roman-alternatives...)

> When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the font of least resistance.” Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color. To look at Times New Roman is to gaze into the void.

> If you have a choice about using Times New Roman, please stop. Use something else.

And on Calibri:

(https://practicaltypography.com/calibri-alternatives.html)

> Like Cambria, Calibri works well on screen. But in print, its rounded corners make body text look soft. If you need a clean sans serif font, you have better options.

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To telegraph an identity, TNR is a good choice for this administration; so, credit where due, well played. Still, I would have gone with Comic Sans.

nalnq•15m ago
The Times New Roman commentary could have been true back when it was written, but now Calibri is the default for Microsoft Word, and has been for a long while (almost 20 years). So choosing Calibri is the path of least resistance.

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