Could anyone please explain how this is "news" worthy? There are literally more pressing issues (inflation, wars, etc), and covering this is asinine, to say the least.
The story is that people with better things to do are spending their time on this
Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
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Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
#192Slightly tangential, is there any chance this is motivated by profit or someone making money off this? Otherwise, seems kinda benign and random.
It's probably to ensure people keep talking about "woke" which tends to be good for the right.
Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
#193Butterick on TNR: ( https://practicaltypography.com/times-new-roman-alternatives... ) > When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the font of least resistance.” Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color. To look at Times New Roman is to gaze into the void. > If you…
> I would have gone with Comic Sans
Funny, I would have gone with Tannenberg
Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
#194Leaders and typefaces: In 1941 Adolf Hitler personally gave order to make the use of the Antiqua mandatory and forbade the use of Fraktur and Schwabacher typefaces. https://ligaturix.de/bormann.htm
Fascism relies on politicisation of aesthetic
Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
#195Why the fuck does anybody care? Also is there no way to view these documents in the font of you choice????
The OP successfully included excerpts from the order without changing to times new roman so CLEARLY this is not insurmountable for anybody who actually notices irrelevant details such as this.
Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
#196Funny but my impression is that these days kerning is usually pretty bad with Serifed fonts in, at the very least, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Powerpoint, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator.
It is not so bad if you are using it for paragraphs but I can't stand the way serifed fonts come out if I am setting display text for a poster unless I manually take over and adjust the kerning. After I had this problem I was wondering if I was the only one or what other people did so I looked at posters people had put up around campus and had a really hard time finding posters where people were using serifed fonts in large sizes and my guess is people either start out with sans or they tried something with serifs but changed their mind because it looked wrong.
Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
#197Leaders and typefaces: In 1941 Adolf Hitler personally gave order to make the use of the Antiqua mandatory and forbade the use of Fraktur and Schwabacher typefaces. https://ligaturix.de/bormann.htm
Fascism relies on politicisation of aesthetic
See V is for Vendetta, I would argue there is a sort of seduction in the Baudrillard sense involved.
Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
#198As the administration steps back from global affairs, it seems the State Department is searching for direction. Rubio would go like - we’re done with managing world affairs via the NSS, what should we do next? Let’s change the font for a new perspective!
Times New Roman is an old perspective. It’s all part of Trump’s plan to take America back to 1950 and pretend 2050 isn’t coming up.
Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
#199The princess and the pea.
Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
#200Slightly tangential, is there any chance this is motivated by profit or someone making money off this? Otherwise, seems kinda benign and random.
Attention is a limited resource. When people spend it on something, they cannot spend it on something else at the same time. If you want to get away with something unpopular, do lots of unpopular things so the really bad stuff gets mixed in with all the rest. From the outside, it all looks very benign and random.