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Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

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Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

#181

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Dear Lord... I'd not picked up on this- if true (I need to validate it for myself).

I forgot Dr. Oz, who is in charge of Health and Human Services. Lots of articles about this; here's a random one: https://deadline.com/gallery/fox-news-personalities-trump-wh...

Secretary of HHS is RFk Jr, oz is in charge of Medicare and Medicaid

Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

#182
post #18

I love how people are passionate about fonts. Search for the 2017 Saturday Night Live skit with Ryan Gosling "Papyrus". It captures the obsession! "It’s like they spent $300 million on the movie, and then.. They just used Papyrus."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ from 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8PdffUfoF0 from 2024

Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

#184
post #69

The left and right signalling is such a waste of everyone's time and effort. Reactive pettiness

Is it "signalling" when the left's change was for an accessibility reason, to enable more people to be able to easily read? Signaling means there's no tangible benefit to the change, so the Blinken's switch to a sans-serif font would not be signaling. Rubio, however, specifically pointed out the symbolic (and malicious) gesture of his whole switch back to Times New Roman. The left didn't react pettily. Please stop th…

I think the concept of an accessible font is signaling. I don't think that Times New Roman is actually less legible than Calibri, and have never seen research claiming to find that Times New Roman in particular or serifs in general pose accessibility problems.

Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

#185

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One of the reasons Calibri was selected over Times New Roman was it has a lower rate of OCR transcription errors, making documents using it easier for people using screen readers.

Link on that, as OCR should be more reliable with Times New Roman due to significant serifs.

The memo at the time said the serifs can cause OCR issues.

https://x.com/John_Hudson/status/1615486871571935232

Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

#187
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This is Michael Scott levels of managerial nonsense, bloody hell. Is Trump incapable of hiring anyone borderline competent?

The only thing these morons understand are surface level appearances. That's why we have so many TV people. - Trump: The Apprentice - Defense: Hegseth: Fox News - Transportation: Sean Duffy: Real World / Road Rules - Education: Linda McMahon: WWE (yes, wrestling) ... I don't feel like going any further, it's too depressing. Edit: I just realized that Duffy is SecTrans because he was on Road Rules.

I don't know that being a contestant in a couple of reality tv shows in college makes Sean Duffy a TV person

McMahon on the other hand was founder and president of WWE

Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

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post #18

I love how people are passionate about fonts. Search for the 2017 Saturday Night Live skit with Ryan Gosling "Papyrus". It captures the obsession! "It’s like they spent $300 million on the movie, and then.. They just used Papyrus."

My friends and I still reference "Shakira merch" from that sketch

Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

#189

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You can find evidence for both sides, because life is more complicated than that. Do you have 20/20 vision? Hi-def screen? High contrast? Floaters in your eyes? Cataracts? Are you tired? How is the text laid out? Line spacing? Literally all of these can impact the answer.

Ok, now insert "broadly" or "generally" into the previous comment and respond to what they actually meant.

Mixed evidence like they said, it depends
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