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Posted by italophil 12/10/2025

Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri(www.reuters.com)
https://archive.md/x0Sxc
407 points | 691 commentspage 10
SanjayMehta 12/10/2025|
His boss' posts on Truth Social should be in Comic Sans.
Gualdrapo 12/10/2025|
Just remember that when the CERN announced they finally could prove the existence of the Higgs boson, they did it using Comic Sans

https://blog.scottlogic.com/2012/07/05/the-higgs-boson-comic...

elashri 12/10/2025|||
To be honest, in the official papers they did not use it for either CMS or ATLAS.
SanjayMehta 12/10/2025|||
If Trump finds out he'll start "truthing" in Comic Sans and expecting a Nobel Prize in Physics.
b00ty4breakfast 12/11/2025||
yes, so wasteful to select a different font in 2025. Real cost-saving measure switching from the evil woke-font calibri to the strong masculine Times New Roman. Thank God Marco Rubio was on the case to set the universe back into alignment with this big-balled move.

Terry Gilliam at his most deranged couldn't dream up this nonsense.

michaelhoney 12/13/2025||
They'll change it to blackletter next
JSR_FDED 12/10/2025||
Such a dingbat move
bakies 12/10/2025||
This admin does like Roman stuff- like their salute
seydor 12/11/2025||
A Glorious Font for the Times New Roman Caesar
goku12 12/11/2025|
So if this one is a dictator, does that mean the next one is an emperor?
iambateman 12/11/2025||
You know what they always say…never waste a good crisis.

This is our opportunity to tell our friends that neither Times New Roman nor Calibri are very good fonts.

If they’re using Word—and they definitely are—Aptos is a better choice than either.

If they want to look fancy and have a serif in their life, maybe they could try a little Cambria.

But if they have a twinkle in their eye and seem like they want to learn, take a moment to introduce them to the wide and glorious world of Roboto. Tell them about the wonders of medium and light and semi-bold and extra-bold and wide and display and condensed and custom ligatures. Give them a taste of what real office typography could’ve been if Microsoft didn’t absolutely destroy it in the 90’s.

Open their mind. Show them the truth. This is your time.

gjvc 12/11/2025||
it's a joy https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto and especially https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Condensed
techblueberry 12/10/2025||
What was wasted?
embedding-shape 12/10/2025||
> https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/addr...

> window.getComputedStyle(document.querySelector('.entry-content > p')).fontFamily

> '"Instrument Sans", sans-serif'

I guess The White House hasn't received the memo yet about how important serifs is for "presenting a unified, professional voice in all communications". What a joke.

bb88 12/11/2025|
TIL: if you google Times New Roman, you get Google search results in Times New Roman.

You also get Calibri if you search for it, but not Zapf Dingbats.

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