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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: 0.001s | source
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praptak ◴[11 Dec 25 05:46 UTC] No.46228088[source]▶
Calibri was supposedly easier to read by people with disabilities. While this itself is debatable, that's not the reasoning behind the font switch. The mere attempt at making life easier for disadvantaged people is labeled DEI and as such cannot be tolerated by this administration.
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unsupp0rted ◴[11 Dec 25 10:08 UTC] No.46229561[source]▶
More charitably, the signaling could be: “keep the government as small as possible, but no smaller than that”, i.e. use things that basically mostly work and quit expending resources addressing every edge case, particularly when it’s performative (slight font variations) rather than obvious (a ramp to get into a public building)
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1. Propelloni ◴[11 Dec 25 13:01 UTC] No.46230849[source]▶
That's very charitable--especially considering that leaving the font alone in the first place would have been the smaller option.

And don't get me started about the current meddling of the executive in my private life? I haven't had a more intrusive administration since living in Singapore.