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Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

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386 points italophil | 1 comments | 10 Dec 25 00:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.224s | source
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dsevil ◴[11 Dec 25 01:42 UTC] No.46226646[source]▶
I've seen some comments about how Times New Roman was replaced with something else to improve readability by many.

There's an irony: the _Times_ (of London) commissioned it in 1932 to improve the readability of its newspaper, which previously used a Didone/Modern style typeface.

I like Times New Roman and I find Calibri, a rounded-corner sans serif, to be an absolute abomination of milquetoast typography.

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1. alphabetag675 ◴[11 Dec 25 08:53 UTC] No.46229093[source]▶
Times New Roman was designed for a time when printing quality was not that good. With 1080p screen nowadays, that barrier is removed, so optimization of readability has different constraints.