Hmm. Are serif fonts beginning to die out altogether, actually? I definitely feel like I see a lot more sans serif than I used to.
Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department, replaced by Calibri
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#12How are they planning to deal with the I-l issue? Hope that it never comes up?
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#15Th.. that announcement is in Arial... (Edit: and Helvetica)
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#16I never understand why someone in charge of making one specific simple choice, ends up making a remarkable dumb decision. Why, unless you are doing things unethically, would you go for a licensed font?
It's not like this is a hard problem to solve more than adequately with open and more accessible alternatives.
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#17Hmm. Are serif fonts beginning to die out altogether, actually? I definitely feel like I see a lot more sans serif than I used to.
I see them mostly as display fonts.
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#18How are they planning to deal with the I-l issue? Hope that it never comes up?
My browser renders this in sans serif, but adds serifs to I. I'm on firefox/linux and it's defaulting to the css `sans-serif` and I don't have the energy to research how to find what that defaults to right now.
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#19Calibri 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
The Microsoft empire is bigger than several nation states.
IBM research used to examine UX. The IBM top brass deciding to pay over $35B+ for a UNIX-like when they have an authentic UNIX of their very own which is going to a boneyard in India suggests that kind of UX research isn't front of mind and funded to decide which font is best.
Re: Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department, replaced by Calibri
#20I never understand why someone in charge of making one specific simple choice, ends up making a remarkable dumb decision. Why, unless you are doing things unethically, would you go for a licensed font? It's not like this is a hard problem to solve more than adequately with open and more accessible alternatives.
Do you think Anthony Blinken knows what a licensed or unlicensed font is?