Secretary of State Rubio has concluded that Calibri is a woke font. US diplomats must revert to Times New Roman in official communications.
So they’re doing this because Biden changed it to Calibri in 2023, and because it improves accessibility to those who have dyslexia and other difficulties reading serif fonts, which is considered under the umbrella of DEI.
A combination of pettiness and cruelty.
And ignorance. Don’t forget ignorance.
I wouldnt say this is ignorance anymore. Theyre all fully aware of how unnecesarily cruel this is and its exactly why theyre doing it.
I’m sure Rubio doesn’t give a shit one way or the other. This is pandering to petty and cruel people, because WOKE BAD gets votes.
Jfc. I’m so over this timeline. If Calibri is woke, does that make Comic Sans an enemy of the state? Like what the fuck are we even doing anymore?
Calibri is such a nice readable font too.
Comic Sans, Papyrus, and Brush Script. Better known as the Axis of Evil.
Papyrus just got denied its citizenship ceremony and Wingdings keeps getting called a sexual predator by literal pedophiles
I remember briefly thinking Times New Roman looked serious and professional. Around the time of my first book report
That’s because it was literally designed for a newspaper
Yeah and it was before I learned who owned the newspapers
Authoritarian fuckwits making sweeping ultimatums to change typefaces for spurious, racist, and political reasons?
Believe it or not, this has happened before. Perhaps most famously… yes, guess who!
Funnily enough, the decree banning the use of Schwabacher Judenlettern (“Jew-letters of Schwabach”) went out using a Nazi party letter head that was printed in a Fraktur typeface.
No change is too small to waste the time of high level officials to revert out of spite
These idiots will do anything they can to make this world dumber.
Honestly you’ve distilled the truth more perfectly here than maybe anyone else has.
Please be The Onion, please be The Onion
Damn.
And now Times New Roman has been ruined for me… what the hell is wrong with this timeline?
What isn’t wrong with this timeline?
So now fonts are political. Please, someone wipe this timeline and start over.
Mr. Rubio’s order cited the origins of serif typefaces in Roman antiquity.
So, it’s best because it has “Roman” in the name. And if they like “Roman” salutes, clearly they want “Roman” fonts too.
Calibri Light is my go to. Fuck you, Rubio.
I always hated Calibri in larger sizes (headers, titles) but Calibri Light saved it for me
I was certain Comic Sans was going to be involved somehow.
Comic Sans is the Stephen Miller of typefaces. It’s behind the scenes getting all of the competent typefaces banned because designers mocked and bullied it out use in respectable publications.
Only far-write typewringers would accept it. Now, it’s getting revenge.
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Seriously though, what’s next… banning left handed scissors as woke?
