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Is Calibri actually more accessible? Every step of this story seems pointless and fake.
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But.... and this is important, it's not funny. "Here is a thing that makes a slight difference, with no cost, to a small percentage of people" "Nah, woke. Let's make it worse for them." There is nothing funny about performative cruelty
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Meaningful? The one that looked into which font was more readable, for the most people
I still can’t believe they switched to Calibri at all; the only people who should be using Calibri are people who don’t realize that Microsoft Word lets you pick other fonts. I do wish they’d gone for a classier serif though; Garamond was right there .
You think the US govenment would go for a French typeface?
I just realized that if you google the font (e.g. "Calibri font"), you get the search results in that font. Neat!
I still can’t believe they switched to Calibri at all; the only people who should be using Calibri are people who don’t realize that Microsoft Word lets you pick other fonts. I do wish they’d gone for a classier serif though; Garamond was right there .
You think the US govenment would go for a French typeface?
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I'll never understand this silly take. they just took a venezuelan oil tanker. is that a joke to you? you might disagree with what they're doing, or argue they are incompetent , but joke is very strange take. they are very serious. ask some undocumented immigrants in the USA about how much they're joking. in fact - any country seeing what trump is doing both domestically and internationally and not taking their actio…
But the rest of us just shorten that to "joke".
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But.... and this is important, it's not funny. "Here is a thing that makes a slight difference, with no cost, to a small percentage of people" "Nah, woke. Let's make it worse for them." There is nothing funny about performative cruelty
I'm with John Gruber, who is hardly a fan of this administration: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/10/state-departmen... "Calibri does convey a sense of casualness — and more so, modernity — that is not appropriate for the U.S. State Department. And I do not buy the argument that Calibri is somehow more accessible for those with low vision or reading disabilities. People with actual accessibility needs shoul…
This is why I'm seriously considering learning Chinese. Next 50 years won't be US lead. When senior government officials are spending time & public mindshare/attention on whether a particular font is or is not diverse then you know it is game over. The details don't matter...this being a topic at all is the news