tfmMarco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI
talTimes New Roman was designed for the print era, and Calibri for onscreen viewing. Onscreen viewing is a lot more common today. Based on that technical characteristic, I’d be kind of inclined to favor Calibri or at least some screen-oriented font.
That being said, screens are also higher-resolution than they were in the past, so the rationale might be less-significant than it once was.
Calibri (/kəˈliːbri/) is a digital sans-serif typeface family in the humanist or modern style. It was designed by Lucas de Groot in 2002–2004 and released to the general public in 2006, with Windows Vista.[3] In Microsoft Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default font in Word and replaced Arial as the default font in PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook. In Windows 7, it replaced Arial as the default font in WordPad. De Groot described its subtly rounded design as having “a warm and soft character”.[3] In January 2024, the font was replaced by Microsoft’s new bespoke font, Aptos, as the new default Microsoft Office font, after 17 years.[4][5]
I suspect that the Office shift is probably a large factor in moving to Calibri.
That being said, there are many Times New Roman implementations, but it sounds like Calibri is owned by Microsoft, so I’d be kind of inclined to favor something open.
In fairness some buggers print their emails
I once wrote code for an elderly researcher who would only review code as a hard copy. I’d bring him stacks of paper and he’d get going with his pen and highlighter. And I’ll grant that the resolution is normally higher on paper than on most displays. I’m viewing this on a laptop screen that’s about 200 ppi. A laser printer is probably printing at a minimum of 300 dpi, maybe 600 or 1200 dpi.
I still think that the few people reading things in print are the exception that proves the rule, though.
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lime!No, Rubio and those like him are just morons.
samus12345They don’t even dislike the font itself. They dislike that it was designed with accessibility in mind. Because they are evil assholes.
jballsDon’t tell them about Atkinson Hyperlegible. It’d melt their brains
hansoloThey changed the style guide during the Biden administration IIRC. TNR to MS Office default Calibri.
The rule is “everything they did is woke” so by their reckoning, yup. Woke as fuck. It’s like:
#1 MLK Jr. Day Exists #2 Juneteenth nee holiday #3 Calibri font
KjellMy local news site wrote that they changed back to times new roman because the calibri font was developed for people who had difficulties to read (like dyslexia I assume), thus DEI and the current administration has to change it back.
WesDym@Kjell Calibri was selected after tests showed that it's more readable on screens, specifically, and also that it translates more reliable for text-to-speech and OCR.
I don't know why they're doing this. If it's not for performative douchery (always a possibility with this crowd), then it's just extremely stupid.
candyman337Is he just dyslexic and it’s easier to read times new roman? Because that to me seems more logical, but got forbid you admit you have a disability to the MAGA white house
It’s the other way around. Serif fonts like Times New Roman are harder for dyslexics to read, and the previous admin switched to Calbri for accessibility because it is sans serif.
Oh my God that’s so unnecessarily malicious
Serifs are MANLY, sans serifs are GAY and WOKE and SOCIALIST
m-p{3}“Americans allow Marco Rubio to ban Calibri font for being too DEI”
The real reason may be that they want to make it harder for their forged documents to be discovered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibri#In_crime_and_politics
VeganBtwIt’s not. It’s that TNR was the standard for some swirling “back then” time frame and switching to the MS Office default font happened under Biden. It’s literally because they looked at a list of changes under Biden, labeled them all “woke” and only have so many staff hours a day to “unwoke” everything.
@SkavarSharraddas That occurred to me, but it would be effortless for anyone in the know to just select TNR for documents they want to forge (for the period when it was in official use, approx 2002-23). It's not necessary to deprecate Calibri for that purpose. Those who got caught just didn't know better. So I don't see this change helping with that.
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shiningheroInstructions unclear, font reverted even further back to Arial, because fuck you Rubio.
KraeuterRoyEverything other than PAPYRUS is too modern and therefore woke!
Tribal, yet futuristic. PAPYRUS!
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID!!!
𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍He wanted to please taco by insisting on Tannenberg, but nobody could read it.
@KraeuterRoy Papyrus was released in 1982.
I’ve noticed that a lot of the material produced by the Trump admin uses Garamond Condensed which is the same font Apple used on its machines and corporate documentation in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
I think it was just the 1980s and 1990s. #SaveTheApostrophes for when they’re required.
@olympicyes Apple Garamond is less condensed than ITC Garamond Condensed, but they're otherwise very similar.
Which 'material' are you referring to? I'm not finding examples myself, but I'm sure there's a lot of stuff to look at.
Cool. Now can you actually DO your job??
Next they’re going to ban letters and only communicate with emojis. That way it’s easier to change the interpretation depending on what’s in their favor.
This is what conservatives are upset about.
This is just the next rage-bait to distract or attempt to distract from the very real crimes being openly happening from the executive. This whole regime is a farce at best, fascist at worst. Half are just trying to undo things someone they dislike enacted and the other half are trying to grift the country. A small subset is trying to do both.
I’m no graphic designer, but ewww.
Why not just use comic sans, wingdings, or papyrus while you’re at it? No fucking taste or decorum at all with these fascist pigs.
They’ll switch to Roman numerals just to say Musk did a Roman salute.
Scotty_TreesOk so what I’m gathering today is that the news is stupid as fuck today and I should occupy my time by going outside instead. Fuck this noise.
I hope this guy becomes visually impaired. Are there thugs one can hire out there that can make it happen? Can we crowd source the funds for such a project?