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Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

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Post by brookst »

spicymaki wrote: post #559
croes wrote: post #524

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Many things labeled as woke benefit the masses like environmental protection. I guess people like to stay asleep. Will be a rough awakening

> Will be a rough awakening I used to believe that people would wake up, but that does not seem to be what happens. They are just herded around by the next dog that comes along.

The president of the US struggles to stay awake in his brief detours from the golf course. It’s a perfect metaphor for the country. All seriousness has left the building.

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

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Post by aqrit »

amluto wrote: post #492

IMO Calibri and Times New Roman are both poor choices: they are not free. The US Government’s works are not generally subject to copyright, and IMO it’s rather obnoxious for their fonts to be restricted. Also, Calibri is specifically a Microsoft font, and maybe the government should be a bit less beholden to Microsoft. IMO the government should pick something available under an appropriate free license or commission…

MS makes "Times New Roman" available (at no cost), but not "Calibri".

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Post by fragrom »

stetrain wrote: post #641
nxor wrote: post #603

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If changing fonts once was a wasteful empty gesture that they used to pat themselves on the back and which didn't benefit anyone, then isn't changing it a second time the exact same thing?

No, you see, it's only wasteful when the OTHER guy does it. /s

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Post by hilbert42 »

lo_zamoyski wrote: post #530
nabla9 wrote: post #523

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I think we all can agree that Comic Sans MS reflects the current US government best, both spiritually and aesthetically.

I would say it’s worse than that. Read Plato’s “Republic” and you may come to appreciate a much more expansive appropriateness of Comic Sans, beyond just the current administration.

I have, many times, hence my earlier comment.

If Rubio read Republic then he's just demonstrated that he'd not have understood it.

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Post by buellerbueller »

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #637
buellerbueller wrote: post #605

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"Virtue signaling" still works because the actor indeed believes they are being virtuous.

Since when is it a virtue to needlessly make things harder for some people?

You would need to ask that of someone who agrees with their font choices. I am only opining that they probably have $REASONS that they believe to be virtuous, and that by calling it virtue signaling, we point that out.

In my time as a righteous woke progressive, it eventually dawned on me that the other side was just as likely to believe in the righteousness of their cause, even if I couldn't understand their reasoning for it. It also dawned on me that the righteous folks on the other side of the divide likely see my beliefs and the reasoning by which I arrived at them as equally baffling.

If both sides believe fully in their righteousness, and see their opponents as wholly unreasonable, then we will end up in a non-religious holy war.

The only way to recover is for both sides to turn down their righteousness.

One small step to do that is to at least try to understand--without agreeing--why the people with whom you disagree hold their beliefs, which ones are inflexible and which are mutable.

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Post by jvandonsel »

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #637
buellerbueller wrote: post #605

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Virtue signaling" still works because the actor indeed believes they are being virtuous.

Since when is it a virtue to needlessly make things harder for some people?

Since January 2025.

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

diputsmonro wrote: post #334
fsckboy wrote: post #271

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serif vs sans serif is not "a vague aesthetic reason", it's the most fundamental typeface choice you can make, moreso than monospace (which is an artifact of some 19th century technology) Rubio is an attorney, and there are many stylistic conventions in the legal and judicial space, why ruffle those feathers by flouting them? if you are given a style guide for your PhD thesis, do you follow it or do you futz endlessl…

It seems like Rubio has chosen to futz endlessly with fonts rather than follow the established style guide.

People should be deeply concerned that Rubio even has time to think about this. How does he not have something better to do?

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Post by behnamoh »

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…

Politics aside, I never liked Calibri, until last year. I think it has a place for small text printed on paper, but other than that, there are far better fonts out there. The non-sharp/round edges/corners and the fact that it looks a bit childish make me not want to use it in anything serious/professional. It's also waaay over-used by people who don't have a taste in design and just select the default font in their PowerPoint/Word files.

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Post by behnamoh »

beowulfey wrote: post #481
praptak wrote: post #358

Calibri was supposedly easier to read by people with disabilities. While this itself is debatable, that's not the reasoning behind the font switch. The mere attempt at making life easier for disadvantaged people is labeled DEI and as such cannot be tolerated by this administration.

I would have thought the change to Calibri was simply because office uses it as the default font now

It was the default, now it's Aptos.
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