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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 7
joshuaheard 12/11/2025|
Most federal courts require documents filed there to be in Times New Roman font.
BuyMyBitcoins 12/11/2025|
Moreover, due to executive order the typeface is now called “Times New American”.
herewulf 12/11/2025||
BVT NOT TO BE CONFVSED UUITH TIMES OLD ROMAN.
paradox460 12/12/2025||
Regardless of the reasons why, I'm glad. I cannot stand calibri. It's one of the ugliest fonts I've ever had to use, somehow looking uglier than even joke fonts like comic sans
orthoxerox 12/11/2025||
Should've picked Charis SIL. It's a legible and serious serif font, doesn't make you look like you picked the boring Big Tech default and has explicitly Christian origins.
7bit 12/11/2025|
Explicit christian origin sounds like Jesus himself designed the font. But no, it's only the label the institute gave itself.

By that measure, I could create a font with explicit godly origin, because I see myself as a direct descendant of God.

Havoc 12/10/2025||
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 12/11/2025|
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.

vanguardanon 12/11/2025||
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.
ChrisArchitect 12/10/2025||
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46212438
benjaminwai 12/12/2025||
I am surprised they haven't come up with their own Truth font instead. "Everything is written in Truth".
seydor 12/10/2025||
Does that mean there will be a Times Caesar , a Times Lady , a Times Mistress and Universal Times new Rome Time? What a Time to be alive
picafrost 12/11/2025|
This will make much more sense when the US announces its move away from Arabic numerals (too diverse) back to Roman numerals.
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