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Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

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386 points italophil | 4 comments | 10 Dec 25 00:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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weinzierl ◴[10 Dec 25 22:56 UTC] No.46225175[source]▶
Leaders and typefaces:

In 1941 Adolf Hitler personally gave order to make the use of the Antiqua mandatory and forbade the use of Fraktur and Schwabacher typefaces.

https://ligaturix.de/bormann.htm

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1970-01-01 ◴[10 Dec 25 23:45 UTC] No.46225701[source]▶
Forgive my ignorance but this seems to be one of the most neutral things Hitler did. He just didn't like the font so he ordered it to be changed. Equivalent to your boss ordering tabs be used instead of spaces. After the war was lost the arguments just continued. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua%E2%80%93Fraktur_disput...
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actionfromafar ◴[10 Dec 25 23:52 UTC] No.46225786[source]▶
Yeah it was so the occupied peoples could read the edicts better. Sp perhaps not so neutral, after all.
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amwet ◴[11 Dec 25 00:08 UTC] No.46225930[source]▶
“I want a new font so it’s easier to read” isn’t neutral?
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1. actionfromafar ◴[11 Dec 25 00:17 UTC] No.46226000[source]▶
Not when you are the aggressor in WW2?

I guess if Russia invaded Western Europe and Putin decided to switch from Cyrillic to Latin script so the subjugated peoples would more easily read and learn Russian, that would be neutral too?

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2. irishcoffee ◴[11 Dec 25 00:57 UTC] No.46226300[source]▶
That isn’t a genuine argument.

Font face != different language + different alphabet.

Font, still a bad argument but technically correct. Font face, nah.

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3. nl ◴[11 Dec 25 03:38 UTC] No.46227369[source]▶
Fraktur actually does use a partially different alphabet. For example it uses the Long s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s and Half-r: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_rotunda
4. actionfromafar ◴[11 Dec 25 09:30 UTC] No.46229349[source]▶
About the "bad argument", I can't argue with you, because I'm not the one arguing. You'll have to take it up with the author of these lines:

"In a hundred years, our language will be the European language. The nations of the east, the north and the west will, to communicate with us, learn our language. The prerequisite for this: The script called Gothic is replaced by the script we have called Latin so far"

(Besides, what's so strange about transposing Cyrillic to Latin? It happens all the time even today when people don't want to or can't switch keyboard layouts.)