Little Marco Rubio has taken decisive action and ended an oppressive policy.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken’s decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
The department under Blinken in early January 2023 had switched to Calibri, a modern sans-serif font, saying this was a more accessible font for people with disabilities because it did not have the decorative angular features and was the default in Microsoft products.
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“To restore decorum and professionalism to the Department’s written work products and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program, the Department is returning to Times New Roman as its standard typeface,” the cable said.
Yay! I feel lighter and freer already — Calibri is a woke font, after all.
Unfortunately, Calibri is a Microsoft font that isn’t automatically installed on Mac systems, so I guess I won’t be sending any diplomatic messages in the near future.
To me, Times New Roman is more of a fatty font.
I thought we wanted to get rid of the fatsos.
Obligatory Comic Sans reference.
I have Calibri on my Mac, and have had for years. Perhaps that’s because I’ve had Microsoft Word and Excel installed on my Macs for years…business you know. I’m not really sure when I first got them. It’s been 41 years since I first started using Macs doing Mac software testing for Apple. I believe we used Microsoft Excel to track bug reports on a Mac at some point in there.
The publisher department of our organization with decades of experience in the field, knows that for many people with less than perfect eyesight and as has been used as the most readable for decades, serif fonts (not necessarily times new roman) are easier to read in long written passages. Also, though this comment will be in a serif font, sans serif fonts often make it difficult to discern the difference among small ‘l’, numeral one ‘1’ and a capital ‘I’ without a clear context included.