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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.
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I think they should have been changed straight out to comic sans.
Or Papyrus!
What in the goddamn actual fuck?
Is this rage bait? Feels like rage bait.
It’s more stupid shit to flood the zone.
Serifs aren’t just decorative…
Switch everything to Impact Bold. Go loud or go home.
Its got what readers crave
Wasteful how?
It would be wasteful to miss ANY opportunity to blame Biden for fucking anything
One of my university profs absolutely hated TNR. He said that all the little ‘hands and feet’ were distracting, and I agree with him.
I would have expected them to switch to Futura.
aw man, I like futura
Futura
The US army used a similar font (maybe Spartan).
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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Actually insane.
What a bunch of fucking idiots.
Just go a step further. Just make reading/writing woke as a matter of fact using your eyes to perceive should be woke too actually make living woke that way they can end themselves to spite the left
Funny how they switched to Calibri in 2023, after it’s been the default since office 2007.
Even funnier how one year after the change, microsoft changed default again away from Calibri to AptosMy take on Aptos is that they designed it to make alternative office suites less compatible. Until now, when you installed Microsoft Office, its fonts were available system wide, so by installing Office 2007 or greater, it would make Calibri available for any other office suite on the system.
But now Aptos is an exclusive of Office 365. Without hacks, the font can only be used in the latest versions of Microsoft Word, and LibreOffice on the same system can’t load it, forced to replace it.
People will think “what the hell, when I open word files with LibreOffice, It changes the font, LibreOffice is not good”
.DOCX format wars are back, baby!
Ugh. That was a horrendous time to be in university.
Can aptos be acquired through other means for LibreOffice?
Yes, it’s hidden somewhere in the disk and it’s a normal font file, otherwise
It’s in AppData\Local\Microsoft\FontCache\4\CloudFonts\
It’s not only Aptos, office 365 expands the font selection with ~100 exclusive “cloud” fonts that are hidden to other non-microsoft apps
Yuck! Everyone knows Arial is the best font.
Temu Helvetica
I like Calibri more than Arial tbh. Courier New is my king of typefaces
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.
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?
The white house is full of WingDings.
Zapf Dingbats if you ask me but you’re definitely onto something here. 😅
