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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

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Post by mcny »

rjzzleep wrote: post #416
vintermann wrote: post #384

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spending time on something like this suggests he doesn't actually have much to do besides throwing his power around.

People will often use their power to do seemingly meaningless things, when they don't know how to solve the actual problems on their plate.

Marco Rubio famously doesn't have the authority to do what is arguably his job.

> Trump envoy Witkoff reportedly advised Kremlin official on Ukraine peace deal

A more dignified Secretary of State would have resigned when this news surfaced.

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

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Post by lil-lugger »

nelox wrote: post #435

Reuters calling the switch a "font" change instead of a typeface change is troubling, though consistent with a society that now casually refers to all pasta as "spaghetti". A typeface is the design; a font is its specific instance. This is basic knowledge, taught to children, houseplants, and most domesticated goats. A simple correction would stop this spiral, but Reuters appears committed to forging a bold new era i…

I’m a professional graphic designer, people in the industry use font, type and typeface interchangeably. No one goes “Umm Actually…” you should also tell that to who wrote css, because font-weight doesn’t make sense if a font is already a specific weight. Words mean something specific until they don’t and the meaning changes over time and that’s okay

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

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Post by [deleted] »

dsevil wrote: post #283

I've seen some comments about how Times New Roman was replaced with something else to improve readability by many. There's an irony: the _Times_ (of London) commissioned it in 1932 to improve the readability of its newspaper, which previously used a Didone/Modern style typeface. I like Times New Roman and I find Calibri, a rounded-corner sans serif, to be an absolute abomination of milquetoast typography.

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

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Post by ensocode »

zzo38computer wrote: post #55

Calibri font has "I" and "l" the same, according to Wikipedia. A better font should avoid characters being too similar (such as "I" and "l" and "1"). Another issue is due to the font size and font metrics, how much space it will take up on the page, to be small enough to avoid wasting paper and ink but also not too small to read. So, there are multiple issues in choosing the fonts; however, Times New Roman and Calibr…

ha ha MAGA font. Only big letters

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

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Post by klez »

ksynwa wrote: post #440
chinathrow wrote: post #419

> U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters. What a waste of government time and spending.

Calibri is woke?

The point being that if the change to Calibri has been done to improve accessibility (hence: inclusion) that makes it woke.

Which is stupid, of course, especially considering that sans-serif fonts improve readability on screens for most people, not for a minority.

EDIT: extraneous "don't" in the middle of a sentence

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

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Post by beambot »

chinathrow wrote: post #419

> U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters. What a waste of government time and spending.

Tilting at windmills...

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

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Post by actionfromafar »

irishcoffee wrote: post #262
actionfromafar wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not when you are the aggressor in WW2? I guess if Russia invaded Western Europe and Putin decided to switch from Cyrillic to Latin script so the subjugated peoples would more easily read and learn Russian, that would be neutral too?

That isn’t a genuine argument. Font face != different language + different alphabet. Font, still a bad argument but technically correct. Font face, nah.

About the "bad argument", I can't argue with you, because I'm not the one arguing. You'll have to take it up with the author of these lines:

"In a hundred years, our language will be the European language. The nations of the east, the north and the west will, to communicate with us, learn our language. The prerequisite for this: The script called Gothic is replaced by the script we have called Latin so far"

(Besides, what's so strange about transposing Cyrillic to Latin? It happens all the time even today when people don't want to or can't switch keyboard layouts.)

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

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Post by otikik »

bulbar wrote: post #382
zzo38computer wrote: post #55

Calibri font has "I" and "l" the same, according to Wikipedia. A better font should avoid characters being too similar (such as "I" and "l" and "1"). Another issue is due to the font size and font metrics, how much space it will take up on the page, to be small enough to avoid wasting paper and ink but also not too small to read. So, there are multiple issues in choosing the fonts; however, Times New Roman and Calibr…

Nothing is more inefficient than the secretary of state thinking about and conducting meetings about the font used in documents. It just doesn't matter in the sense that it "doesn't move the needle". I expect the leaders of a government deciding on matters that have a real impact on people's live, not on stuff that from a practical point of view is totally irrelevant.

So, two options.

a) It's a smoke screen. Do something bombastic and provocative so that the opposition chews on that while something else more "important" passes undetected.

b) Nah, he's just stupid.

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