🚨 The Font Wars: Episode IV - The Empire Strikes Back (In Times New Roman) 🚨 In a shocking twist of fate, the U.S. State Department bravely battled the monstrous forces of #Calibri, only to find itself lost in the dull embrace of Times New Roman. 😴 Because clearly, the fate of international #diplomacy hinges on font size and style. 📜✨
https://hsu.cy/2025/12/times-new-american/ #FontWars #StateDepartment #TimesNewRoman #DesignHumor #HackerNews #ngated
Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts

A less romantic truth is that aesthetic standards rarely travel alone; power tends to follow in their wake. An episode at the U.S. State Department this month makes exactly this point.

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@mathew We always knew the culture wars would come for the fontists and we would have to take sides. We just didn't expect it to be over such boring fonts. Still, i suppose Antiqua–Schwabacher were the boring fonts of their time.
#FontWars

Ooooh, Comic Mono, Comic Sans with all the badness taken out.

https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/

#FontWars

Comic Mono

A legible monospace font… the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood

comic-mono-font

So, I’m reading the side of my oatmilk carton, and all of as sudden they’re talking about catmilk, and that’s a really completely different thing; and then I realize it’s just the Times New Roman font fucking with me.

#oatMilk
#CatMilk
#TimesNewRoman
#FontWars