Speaking of DEI: Stanley Morison, the inventor of Times New Roman, in collaboration with Victor Lardent, was one of the founders of The Guild of the Pope's Peace, an organization created to promote Pope Benedict XV's calls for peace in the face of the First World War. On the imposition of conscription in 1916 during First World War, he was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Morison#Early_life_and...>

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.

  > calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a "wasteful" diversity move,
  
  > The department under Blinken in early January 2023 had switched to Calibri, a modern sans-serif font,
  > saying this was a more accessible font for people with disabilities

Man, helping disabled people is so woke. Who was the woke politician who made the government support disabled americans?

For a moment I thought it had something to do with "Cuadernillos Rubio" [1]. They are small workbooks quite common in Spain for kids to learn how to write. However, the font they use is not Times New Roman...

[1] https://www.amazon.es/-/en/gp/product/8417427627?ref_=dbs_m_...

The verbiage in the PR reminds me of a bit from The Night Watch [1]:

> [...] and at some point, you will have to decide whether serifs are daring statements of modernity, or tools of hegemonic oppression that implicitly support feudalism and illiteracy

[1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf

How far has the migration away from TNR to Calibri progressed? Is it redoing everything or is it just abandoning an incomplete ongoing migration that mostly just started?

I still can’t believe they switched to Calibri at all; the only people who should be using Calibri are people who don’t realize that Microsoft Word lets you pick other fonts.

I do wish they’d gone for a classier serif though; Garamond was right there.

  Le problème avec les Américains, c'est qu'ils n'ont pas de mot pour «entrepreneur».

There's Clickbait and then this awful headline designed to give people heart attacks.

Who care about fonts? Boring. Why not jazz it up by mentioning coups during an administration that previously tried to pull of a coup attempt. Any administration officials names and coup should not be in the same sentence unless they attempt another one(or unless it's talking about the previous one).

As far as paper copies of laws and proclamations are concerned, the government can print them out in Wingdings for all I care. 99.999% of people will never see the physical paper. What matters are the digital files which, along with PDF, should be available to view in any font I want, whether Times New Roman or Comis Sans or braille.

> "To restore decorum and professionalism to the Department’s written work products and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program, the Department is returning to Times New Roman as its standard typeface."

So to reiterate, the department decided to move on from the 1992 default Word font to the 2007 Word default (1 year after it was no longer the default).

Nothing is safe from politics when even a font choice has become "woke".