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Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

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386 points italophil | 2 comments | 10 Dec 25 00:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.453s | source
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ebbi[dead post] ◴[10 Dec 25 22:20 UTC] No.46224733[source]▶
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youngNed ◴[10 Dec 25 22:27 UTC] No.46224825[source]▶
But.... and this is important, it's not funny.

"Here is a thing that makes a slight difference, with no cost, to a small percentage of people"

"Nah, woke. Let's make it worse for them."

There is nothing funny about performative cruelty

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groundzeros2015[dead post] ◴[10 Dec 25 22:29 UTC] No.46224848[source]▶
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1. AshleyGrant ◴[10 Dec 25 22:36 UTC] No.46224945[source]▶
If you had read the article, you would know the answer to this question.

Calibri is a font designed to be easier to read on screens, which is where documents are primarily read in 2025. Switching to using Calibri as the default was a meaningful change that provided improved accessibility at literally no cost to anyone.

Switching back to Times New Roman, a serif font that is provably more difficult to read on screens is yet another act of performative cruelty by this administration who seemingly operates with "the cruelty is the point" as one of its core tenets.

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2. groundzeros2015 ◴[10 Dec 25 22:58 UTC] No.46225194[source]▶
Is screen readability the only value to consider?

> If you had read the article

Please read the rules.