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Posted by italophil 2 days ago

Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri(www.reuters.com)
https://archive.md/x0Sxc
393 points | 673 commentspage 6
mitchbob 2 days ago|
> Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful,” casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts.

https://archive.ph/2025.12.10-001235/https://www.nytimes.com...

nine_k 2 days ago|
To actually reduce waste, they could have switched to a narrower typeface, such as Roboto Condensed. At least it would save some paper occasionally.
gjvc 1 day ago||
Roboto Condensed is excellent. It saves space so more words can be read with each eye movement (saccades) and is very clear.

see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_in_reading

hs586 1 day ago||
I just realized that if you google the font (e.g. "Calibri font"), you get the search results in that font. Neat!
_bohm 1 day ago|
Works for lots of other fonts too :)
joshuaheard 1 day ago||
Most federal courts require documents filed there to be in Times New Roman font.
BuyMyBitcoins 1 day ago|
Moreover, due to executive order the typeface is now called “Times New American”.
picafrost 1 day ago||
This will make much more sense when the US announces its move away from Arabic numerals (too diverse) back to Roman numerals.
itsjustjordan 1 day ago||
Slightly related but today I learned if you Google a font the site changes to that font.
vanguardanon 1 day ago||
I just wanted to add a comment that I never knew but if you google Times New Roman they display the entire Google web search results page in Times New Roman.
indymike 1 day ago||
Reminds me of the Postal Service spending billions to change the logo from a stylized eagle to a... stylized eagle.
oneeyedpigeon 1 day ago||
I'm definitely not suggesting someone make one, but Rubio sounds like an awfully good name for a font...
Havoc 1 day ago||
US has genuinely lost it

It genuinely feels like someone worked out that you don't actually need to build a better stealth bomber than the B2. You just need to infiltrate government enough to have them debate what fonts are woke

Then I think "nah surely not. can't be that easy". And then next week...another insane thing comes out of US republican camp. I'm starting to think one does indeed not need B2s to defeat an enemy

rootusrootus 1 day ago|
Go visit the popular hangouts for folks of the far right persuasion and you learn pretty quickly that this stuff is absolutely important to them, and they get spun up about it. What you don't see discussed is policy. It's almost 100% outrage about cultural issues and pretty much any reason to hate the left. Never substance.

To be fair, in response to this dynamic the left has gotten pretty good at focusing on hate for the other side, too. We all lose when nobody wants to talk policy any more.

retrocog 1 day ago|
Fell asleep in America and woke up in Lilliput
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