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.
How is using the default font wasteful? Apart from anything else I’m pretty sure it uses less ink.
look i know literally everyone says this and it’s overdone by this point, but it’s true: we are in the onion timeline
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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Shout out to all the people who don’t know what font they are using!
We use fonts? 🙈
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.
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.
Literally anything to avoid doing actual work.
Republicans are like the one asshole in the group project that shows up with some stale donuts once and thinks they’ve fulfilled their end of the group project responsibilities.
So true lol. They are the type of teammate who only shows up 20% of the time, works on one tiny piece of the project with lots of help from other members, then claims they did all the work or blames everyone else when the project doesn’t get finished on time.
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.
Now that we’re on this topic, Aptos sucks
Welcome to the culture war I guess, Calibri. God, this timeline is dumb.
Fascist timelines always are.
What in the goddamn actual fuck?
Actually insane.
Wasteful how?
It would be wasteful to miss ANY opportunity to blame Biden for fucking anything
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.
The debate had actually been going on for a while between Fraktur and Antiqua. In the past Fraktur was used to write German, while Antiqua was used for Latin. The debate is known as the “Antiqua-Fraktur-Streit” and was going on in Germany since the 18th century. In the late 19th century it became very heated when several movements tried to make their preferred font the standard in the wake of standardizations for spelling. During the Weimar republic both were taught in schools, Antiqua for Latin and Fraktur for German.
Now you’d think someone like Hitler would love a classical German font, but Hitler found the usage of Fraktur “backward-looking” and the artsy, ornate style of Fraktur not fitting for the new age of technology and strong Aryans. They even prohibited the usage of Fraktur in some publications.
It’s actually pretty hilarious that Fraktur is associated with Nazis now when Hitler was pretty outspoken about hating it and tried very hard to abolish it.
I dunno, Times New Roman looks an awful lot like a book or a newspaper and reading is woke.
Switch to comic sans like a real murican.
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Missed opportunity to introduce a new typeface named Real Great American.
