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Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

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386 points italophil | 6 comments | 10 Dec 25 00:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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rsynnott ◴[10 Dec 25 01:06 UTC] No.46212838[source]▶
This is Michael Scott levels of managerial nonsense, bloody hell.

Is Trump incapable of hiring anyone borderline competent?

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jesterson[dead post] ◴[10 Dec 25 05:00 UTC] No.46214266[source]▶
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1. cbm-vic-20 ◴[10 Dec 25 16:30 UTC] No.46219783[source]▶
There's a difference between "Let's use Calibri to make our documents more readable" and "Let's go back to TNR becuase using Calibri is woke nonsense by Biden's guy". They could have used pretty much any other reason to switch back to TNR, but decided to make it a childish DEI/"woke" jab.
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2. xigoi ◴[10 Dec 25 16:53 UTC] No.46220083[source]▶
Is there any evidence that sans-serif typefaces are more readable? I’ve previously seen headlines claiming the opposite.
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3. IAmBroom ◴[10 Dec 25 19:41 UTC] No.46222591[source]▶
You can find evidence for both sides, because life is more complicated than that. Do you have 20/20 vision? Hi-def screen? High contrast? Floaters in your eyes? Cataracts? Are you tired? How is the text laid out? Line spacing?

Literally all of these can impact the answer.

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4. BobaFloutist ◴[10 Dec 25 20:14 UTC] No.46223094{3}[source]▶
Ok, now insert "broadly" or "generally" into the previous comment and respond to what they actually meant.
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5. jazzyjackson ◴[10 Dec 25 23:31 UTC] No.46225565{4}[source]▶
Mixed evidence like they said, it depends
6. jesterson ◴[11 Dec 25 00:57 UTC] No.46226298[source]▶
You understand both justifications are actually made up? As there is no evidence Calibri has better readability, certainly it doesn't have anything to do with wokeism.