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.
look i know literally everyone says this and it’s overdone by this point, but it’s true: we are in the onion timeline
How is using the default font wasteful? Apart from anything else I’m pretty sure it uses less ink.
You’re looking for reason? In this administration?
You should be looking for motive instead. Handicaps are now a kind of diversity. ICE will get right on it.
Shout out to all the people who don’t know what font they are using!
We use fonts? 🙈
I think they should have been changed straight out to comic sans.
Or Papyrus!
What in the goddamn actual fuck?
Now that we’re on this topic, Aptos sucks
But I think it’s still better than Calibri.
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.
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!
Is this rage bait? Feels like rage bait.
It’s more stupid shit to flood the zone.
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Performative cruelty. So hot right now.
Imagine being so insecure that you’re threatened by a font…
I’m threatened by wingdings… what are they really saying? (͡•_ ͡• )
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Ugh even the fonts they like are old and boring. Anyways, this is a Comic Sans administration if I ever saw one.
Hey, there are many fantastic old fonts. Most of the greats date back to the nineteenth century.
Times New Roman isn’t one of them, of course, but still.
As for Comic Sans, if I recall correctly it was intended to make reading easier for dyslexic readers, so I can’t see these bastards using it. Times New Roman is more their thing… though I could maybe see them using Papyrus.
Wasn’t the best choice of words I guess, overused, plain, stuffy, vanilla. Comic sans is also popular with dumbass tech-illiterate management types and that is these folks in spades. Of course most of the best fonts are old.
The white house is full of WingDings.
Zapf Dingbats if you ask me but you’re definitely onto something here. 😅
Comic Sans is good for dyslexics, so this is definitely not the right font for this administration, despite its name.
What if it’s written in ketchup?
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”
Welcome to the culture war I guess, Calibri. God, this timeline is dumb.
Fascist timelines always are.
