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Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

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375 points italophil | 6 comments | 10 Dec 25 00:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.231s | source | bottom
1. softgrow ◴[10 Dec 25 02:22 UTC] No.46213293[source]▶
As documented at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_Easter_eggs google search for "times new roman font" and the results are returned in that font. (https://www.google.com/search?q=Times+New+Roman+Font for the lazy). Looks terrible on my screen.
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2. nine_k ◴[10 Dec 25 02:29 UTC] No.46213344[source]▶
Nice! Also works with Courier and Comic Sans, but, sadly, not with Helvetica.
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3. cwnyth ◴[10 Dec 25 02:55 UTC] No.46213486[source]▶
And Arial, Calibri, Georgia, and Cambria. It's missing Linux Libertine fonts, though. So typical.
4. layer8 ◴[11 Dec 25 00:32 UTC] No.46226119[source]▶
Wingdings would have been nice.
5. jacobgkau ◴[11 Dec 25 04:45 UTC] No.46227772[source]▶
To be honest, the first moment I saw the page, it did seem to give my eyes a negative reaction, but after reading a few of the results, it started to look fine pretty quickly.
6. vintermann ◴[11 Dec 25 07:22 UTC] No.46228601[source]▶
I think it mostly depends on what we're used to and what our associations are.

Many computer science people I respect are huge typeface nerds, but personally I could never see much value in focusing on it.