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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: 0s | source
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nelox ◴[11 Dec 25 08:35 UTC] No.46228995[source]▶
Reuters calling the switch a "font" change instead of a typeface change is troubling, though consistent with a society that now casually refers to all pasta as "spaghetti". A typeface is the design; a font is its specific instance. This is basic knowledge, taught to children, houseplants, and most domesticated goats.

A simple correction would stop this spiral, but Reuters appears committed to forging a bold new era in which terminology is chosen at random, like drawing Scrabble tiles from a bag and declaring them journalism.

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1. dghf ◴[11 Dec 25 09:03 UTC] No.46229165[source]▶
If all DoS documents are prepared with the same software or software suite (e.g. MS Office), isn't that a distinction without much of a difference? They've gone back to using TNR.ttf instead of Calibri.ttf (or whatever the files are actually called).