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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
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Terretta 12/10/2025|
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

sombragris 12/10/2025||
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.

gverrilla 12/11/2025||
Dog whistle for transphobic people.
Adrock 12/11/2025||
Surprised they didn’t go with .
bigtones 12/10/2025||
I had to check this was actually Reuters and not The Onion. eye roll
morshu9001 12/10/2025||
Wasn't there was a previous "coup" that changed it from TNR to Calibri? TNR is nicer though.
IceHegel 12/11/2025||
I'm dyslexic and I much prefer to read Times New Roman to Calibri. I think it's a good move.
iguana_shine 12/11/2025||
This headline is obnoxious
BLKNSLVR 12/10/2025||
The princess and the pea.
mgkimsal 12/11/2025|
Make Arial Great Again
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