Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed all diplomats to revert to using the Times New Roman typeface in official communications and criticized his predecessor for shifting to Calibri, a font deemed too woke for the Trump administration.
Two years ago, Rubio’s predecessor, Antony Blinken, switched to Calibri, a softer, simpler-shaped, and wider font than Times New Roman, in part to assist individuals with certain visual disabilities such as low vision and dyslexia.
Times New Roman is lean and angular and masculine. Calibri is "plus-sized" and effeminate. It's a Gay Font.
“Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department’s official correspondence,” Rubio wrote in an “action request,” obtained by Reuters and the New York Times.
Times New Roman has long been a classic letterhead in books, featuring narrower and more formally shaped letters relative to Calibri.
The State Department used Times New Roman as its official font starting in 2004, when it shifted away from Courier New, a typeface frequently used in screenplays with its monospaced letters.
Rubio reportedly dinged the Blinken-era switch to Calibri as “wasteful” and woke in his Dec. 9 cable to personnel.
“To restore decorum and professionalism to the Department’s written work products and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA [Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility] program, the Department is returning to Times New Roman as its standard typeface,” Rubio reportedly wrote.
“This formatting standard aligns with the President’s One Voice for America’s Foreign Relations directive, underscoring the Department’s responsibility to present a unified, professional voice in all communications.”
At the time of the Blinken-era switch to Calibri, the State Department had pointed to studies suggesting the wider typeface was more readable for people with visual disabilities — a conclusion that has split experts.
During President Trump’s second term, his team has sought to scrap Biden-era diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies within the government and encourage the private sector to do the same.
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I use Times New Roman unless I want to emphasize a paragraph or sentence and very infrequently. I always use it in my chart audit reports as it becomes a legal document.
ReplyDeleteI have a few fonts I prefer but Verdana was what I picked for the blog and I use it on my notes. It balances between business and casual imo.
DeleteYou know you're a nerd when you look at the examples of the fonts and say, "hey, they used Latex to create that."
ReplyDeleteUhhh .... you lost me on that one Unferth.
DeleteThere is a tool for writing technical document known as LaTeX. It's a mark up language that produces very professional results. Doctoral thesis usually have to be submitted in LaTeX. One of the common packages used spits out paragraphs of jibberish so that you can test your LaTeX code. That package will output "Lorem ipsum dolor..."
DeleteI just finish writing a 350 page book using LaTeX. I've also set up a system so that my son can write in Open Office, but the results will go through LaTeX to make his work look extremely professional.
That's WAY beyond what I will ever need or use in this barely functional blog.
DeleteTimes New Roman is easier to read. The little tails, called serifs, make the letters easier to recognize while also making the letters form word groups better. 'Sans-serif' fonts are better for headers and such because the lack of serifs make them stand out more.
ReplyDeleteYou just analyzed it more than I ever have. Sounds logical.
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