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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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chinathrow ◴[11 Dec 25 07:47 UTC] No.46228736[source]▶
> U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.

What a waste of government time and spending.

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JKCalhoun ◴[11 Dec 25 14:27 UTC] No.46231787[source]▶
"wasteful diversity move"

Wild. I'm curious now if someone has an ordered list of fonts from the gayest to the straightest.

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1. tracker1 ◴[11 Dec 25 17:33 UTC] No.46234387{3}[source]▶
If I were to guess, the switch to Calibri in the first place was because people were able to use the MS default in practice instead of having to hand change it, or use "official" templates, which imo is probably more appropriate anyway.

I think Calibri is arguably a better font, to me the bigger issue is the commercial license used in govt works.