Dog whistle for transphobic people.

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.

Noto Serif would have been a better choice, it is far more readable and is capable of representing all languages in the world.

But then it's bigger, for example to replace Time New Roman 10 it would require Noto Serif 8.5.

What was wasted?

Make Arial Great Again

> 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.

If only this administration would limit its actions to such forms of bikeshedding...

This change sounds like that "waste, fraud, and abuse" stuff.

If you add up all the government memos, forms, letters, contracts, publications, everything printed globally…

“wow. many serif. so pointy. much ink. such waste!” — Kabosu, probably

Why is this a story? I'm fairly certain fonts change all of the time. Oh right, it's because they can't just make the change, they have to say something stupid about it. Republican voters, how are you not insulted? Is this really all it takes to get you to that voting booth?

I support the change, though the rationale used for it seems to me to be nonsense.

Times New Roman might not be the world's most beautiful font, but at least is a little bit less atrocious than Calibri (which is awful). So, whatever the rationale invoked, I welcome the change.

Sometimes, when I have to work on documents which will be shared with many users, I use Times New Roman as serif, and Arial as a sans serif. Both choices are (admittedly in my very subjective opinion) better than Calibri, and it's almost guaranteed that every PC will have these fonts available, or at least exact metric equivalents of them.