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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 Tor3 »

notachatbot123 wrote: post #535
LucasFonts wrote: post #475

Our studio, LucasFonts, designed Calibri. Here are our CEO Luc(as) de Groot’s thoughts on the matter: The decision to abandon Calibri on the grounds of it being a so-called “wasteful diversity font” is both amusing and regrettable. Calibri was specifically designed to enhance readability on modern computer screens and was selected by Microsoft in 2007 to replace Times New Roman as the default font in the Office suite…

I love how emphasize is given to accessibility for older adults, such as the orange man. But I guess he gets his printouts with few words and big fonts anyways.

The way he writes indicates that he has very little experience with reading in the first place. Weird wording, strange capitalization and punctiation, etc.

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

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Post by NekkoDroid »

zimpenfish wrote: post #508
Terr_ wrote: post #389

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For anyone sharing my confusion: Yes, that cringetastic text (and borderline Hatch-Act violation) is up there, but it's a different linked domain: https://americabydesign.gov/

I'm no expert but "We've been conditioned to accept that mediocre in government is normal." reads terribly. Surely it should be "...that mediocrity in..." or even "...that mediocre government..." or even "...that being mediocre in...". All of those are better! edit: this text is a mess. "It's time to upgrade, and fix the nation's digital potholes." That comma is nonsense.

> edit: this text is a mess. "It's time to upgrade, and fix the nation's digital potholes." That comma is nonsense.

I assume they wanted to look smart in the sense "look at us, we used the oxford comma" without actually understanding that the oxford comma needs 3 or more elements listed to be an actual oxford comma.

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

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Post by hopelite »

throw__away7391 wrote: post #521
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.

I read the title of this and as I could not wrap my head around the idea of "Rubio" here actually meaning Marco Rubio, I assumed this was a font name, but also laughing to myself just how hilariously absurd it would be for the Secretary of State to involved in picking fonts...only to click the link and discover that yes, it is exactly that absurd.

Did you have that kind of reaction, that it’s absurd, when Blinken ordered the use of Calibri after ~20 years of consistent use of Times New Roman?

It is objectively more concerning and “absurd”, regardless of “team”, that Blinken arbitrarily introduced fragmentation by adding an additional font to official government communications when a convention had been established across government to use Times New Roman.

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

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Post by Sunspark »

rob74 wrote: post #567
LucasFonts wrote: post #475

Our studio, LucasFonts, designed Calibri. Here are our CEO Luc(as) de Groot’s thoughts on the matter: The decision to abandon Calibri on the grounds of it being a so-called “wasteful diversity font” is both amusing and regrettable. Calibri was specifically designed to enhance readability on modern computer screens and was selected by Microsoft in 2007 to replace Times New Roman as the default font in the Office suite…

May I ask what your thoughts are on fonts that prioritise legibility over everything else, like Atkinson Hyperlegible? IMHO Calibri has a better balance between legibility and a consistent/polished look. The Munich transportation company MVG wanted to set an example here and adapted this font for their information screens at subway stations, on trains etc. There's one catch though: because Atkinson Hyperlegible tends…

As a lay person who likes to look at fonts closely, the purpose they are intended for matters. I don't like the Atkinson font for body text because I find it too round. For a transit sign I suppose it is fine since it would be printed at display sizes and only momentarily gazed at.

Calibri is a high-quality font that works as body text, but it's cold.

Times NR on paper is fine, on screen it is not fine unless you have a high resolution display.

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

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Post by sailfast »

Terr_ wrote: post #389
sailfast wrote: post #347

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah it’s fascist looking as hell, and they’re the ones that have been registering all these rando program domains. So, so dumb - if only because it’s redundant and wasteful. https://ndstudio.gov/ With such inspiring copy as “What's the biggest brand in the world? If you said Trump, you're not wrong. But what's the foundation of that brand? One that's more globally recognized than practically anything else. It's the…

For anyone sharing my confusion: Yes, that cringetastic text (and borderline Hatch-Act violation) is up there, but it's a different linked domain: https://americabydesign.gov/

Yes thank you for posting the click-through. Just about every site they make is hot garbage unfortunately. It’s depressing.

The Hatch Act is a law, but is effectively dead under this administration as it is never enforced and often violated brazenly.

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

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Post by JKCalhoun »

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.

"wasteful diversity move"

Wild. I'm curious now if someone has an ordered list of fonts from the gayest to the straightest.

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

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Post by hopelite »

red-iron-pine wrote: post #569
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.

"anything we don't like is 'diversity' [woke]"

Or maybe the government should have a common convention regarding official government communications, which Blinken added fragmentation to by arbitrarily changing the font away from Times New Roman.

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

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Post by JKCalhoun »

mikkupikku wrote: post #528
ksynwa wrote: post #440

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Calibri is woke?

It's just ragebaiting. Don't take the bait. If I say I bought a yellow car, nobody cares. If I say I bought a yellow car to troll the libtards , now everybody is mad even though what I said makes no sense and it all has little consequence anyway.

I'm way past raging—just laughing at the stupidity at this point.
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