The State Department’s decision to stop using the Calibri typeface in favor of Times New Roman shook one community far removed from the workings of government: type designers. “I love it when, once in ...
The Trump administration doesn't like Calibri. Well, at least that is what Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told diplomats in his memo. We live in strangely charged times when anything can be put in ...
“Because we encounter serif fonts like Times New Roman so often in books, newspapers and academic texts, they tend to evoke reliability, seriousness and a sense of ourselves rooted in tradition,” says ...
The State Department has reversed a Biden-era font change that aimed to make its paperwork more accessible to readers with disabilities. Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed diplomats around the ...
Calibri became the standard font for State Department documents in 2023. Officials under President Biden said the font was easier to read for people with visual disabilities because of its cleaner ...
It’s the rise of the Roman Empire at the U.S. State Department — Times New Roman, that is. In a memo to the department on Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed U.S. diplomats worldwide to ...
The Calibri font is the latest government worker to be fired from the Trump administration for its association with diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. In an action that reads like a ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered ...
If I had to pick a word to describe Calibri, the sans-serif typeface that was the default font for Microsoft apps from 2007 to 2024, it would probably be “inoffensive.” Sure, Microsoft’s “extremely ...
WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - 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 ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful,” casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts. By Michael ...