Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department, replaced by Calibri
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Re: Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department, replaced by Calibri
#2Calibri is Microsoft-encumbered, no? Shame they didn't use a free font like Liberation Sans.
Re: Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department, replaced by Calibri
#3Calibri is Microsoft-encumbered, no? Shame they didn't use a free font like Liberation Sans.
Liberation Sans would be so on brand for the USA too
Re: Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department, replaced by Calibri
#4Interesting that the memo claims that sans serif fonts are preferred to serif fonts for screen reader users and people with disabilities. I thought the exact opposite was true. Is there any definitive research on which type of font is more accessible?
Re: Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department, replaced by Calibri
#5Re: Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department, replaced by Calibri
#6Interesting that the memo claims that sans serif fonts are preferred to serif fonts for screen reader users and people with disabilities. I thought the exact opposite was true. Is there any definitive research on which type of font is more accessible?
“Disabilities” is an extremely wide spectrum, and it’s pointless to try to group people on that scale.
Re: Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department, replaced by Calibri
#7Sans-serif type for printed documents?
Re: Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department, replaced by Calibri
#8Interesting that the memo claims that sans serif fonts are preferred to serif fonts for screen reader users and people with disabilities. I thought the exact opposite was true. Is there any definitive research on which type of font is more accessible?
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#9Interesting that the memo claims that sans serif fonts are preferred to serif fonts for screen reader users and people with disabilities. I thought the exact opposite was true. Is there any definitive research on which type of font is more accessible?
"Results showed a small, but significant advantage in response times for words written in a sans serif font."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20445911.2011.5...
"Sans serif, monospaced and roman font styles significantly improved the reading performance over serif, proportional and italic fonts."
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2513383.2513447
and here a whole book about that question
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