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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 | 676 commentspage 8
jdub 1 day ago|
There are very few ways in which US governance and/or regulation leads the developed world, but a huge (and surprising) one is the 1990 (!) Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It is astonishingly, transformationally inclusive, and makes life better for every American (because everyone needs accessibility to different degrees, at different times).

Switching from Calibri back to Times New Roman "because DEI" 100% tracks with this administration's spiteful Project 2025 vandalism.

wiz21c 1 day ago||
really good 1st of April joke !!! rotfl

ahem... We're not the 1st of April...

zkmon 1 day ago||
The first-world problems!
Adrock 21 hours ago||
Surprised they didn’t go with .
ranger_danger 2 days ago||
https://2021-2025.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-on-np...

Secretary Antony Blinken on NPR's Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me! About the U.S. Department of State moving from Times New Roman to Calibri.

whoisthemachine 2 days ago|
Compare this:

> calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a "wasteful" diversity move

to

> SECRETARY BLINKEN: First, I’m called to make very weighty decisions (inaudible).

> QUESTION: Oh. Type joke.

> SECRETARY BLINKEN: And I’m always trying to be a font of wisdom, (inaudible).

Just... ugh. People voted for all of this non-stop vitriol? I'd like to have a post that added something meaningful but all I have to add is frustration with humanity.

RobLach 1 day ago||
The ole' turning around a failing effort with a rebrand.
ggm 2 days ago||
But you [sometimes] still have to use courier filing in the courts?
dragonwriter 2 days ago||
The Supreme Court requires Century (which for any use other than maybe a newspaper is infinitely better than Times New Roman—and for a newspaper, Times is better than TNR.)
CaliforniaKarl 2 days ago||
You follow the style guide or rules for the court in which you are filing. The US Supreme Court, for example, does not use Courier.
IAmBroom 1 day ago||
Pretty soon they'll only accept crayon.
seydor 1 day ago||
A Glorious Font for the Times New Roman Caesar
goku12 1 day ago|
So if this one is a dictator, does that mean the next one is an emperor?
b00ty4breakfast 1 day ago||
yes, so wasteful to select a different font in 2025. Real cost-saving measure switching from the evil woke-font calibri to the strong masculine Times New Roman. Thank God Marco Rubio was on the case to set the universe back into alignment with this big-balled move.

Terry Gilliam at his most deranged couldn't dream up this nonsense.

SanjayMehta 2 days ago|
His boss' posts on Truth Social should be in Comic Sans.
Gualdrapo 2 days ago|
Just remember that when the CERN announced they finally could prove the existence of the Higgs boson, they did it using Comic Sans

https://blog.scottlogic.com/2012/07/05/the-higgs-boson-comic...

elashri 2 days ago|||
To be honest, in the official papers they did not use it for either CMS or ATLAS.
SanjayMehta 2 days ago|||
If Trump finds out he'll start "truthing" in Comic Sans and expecting a Nobel Prize in Physics.
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