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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 amypetrik8 »

nabla9 wrote: post #523
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 think we all can agree that Comic Sans MS reflects the current US government best, both spiritually and aesthetically.

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

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Post by tracker1 »

ndkap wrote: post #628
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.

As an aside, I didn't know what Comic Sans looks like, so I searched on Google and it rendered the whole page in that font. I tried with other Fonts too like Arial and Times New Roman, and it did the same there. So cool!

Very cool... but I can't seem to get it to do so for other fonts I can think of off the top of my head... Inconsolata, Consolas, Fira Code, etc. "Times New Roman" does work as well.

Would be cool to see google support this for at least all the fonts in Google Fonts' library, since they're already well supported web fonts.

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

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Post by ndsipa_pomu »

buellerbueller wrote: post #656
ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #637

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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 reasoni…

I just don't understand why it would be a virtue to deliberately make things harder for people. If the font was neutral in terms of being easy to read, then they would never have touched it. To my mind, they're making a "virtue" out of cruelty.

The problem is that we've seen what this kind of "righteousness" leads to (gas chambers, The Final Solution, World War II) and yet we're heading down the same road. There is no reasoning with Nazis.

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

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Post by tracker1 »

behnamoh wrote: post #659
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 P…

Calibri is a pretty nice screen font. That said, I would rather see official documents in a non-commercially licensed font face that can be used by any/all OSes and platforms without incumbrances.

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

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Post by scelerat »

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…

The current administration is regressive and explicitly, triumphantly anti-expert.

Within this environment the decision to eschew the font that was expertly designed for present needs in favor of one designed in the past for different ones makes perfect sense.

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

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Post by behnamoh »

tracker1 wrote: post #664
behnamoh wrote: post #659

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 P…

Calibri is a pretty nice screen font. That said, I would rather see official documents in a non-commercially licensed font face that can be used by any/all OSes and platforms without incumbrances.

Nah, it's ugly and doesn't exude "professionalism" at all. For that you'd need a serif font, or at least a proper sans serif like Helvetica or SF Pro.

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

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Post by tracker1 »

nxor wrote: post #603
JKCalhoun wrote: post #578

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

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If I were to guess, the switch to Calibri in the first place was because people were able to use the MS default in practice instead of having to hand change it, or use "official" templates, which imo is probably more appropriate anyway.

I think Calibri is arguably a better font, to me the bigger issue is the commercial license used in govt works.

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

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Post by QuercusMax »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #181
QuercusMax wrote: post #43

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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

Whoops, you're right. Too many clowns in this circus.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

VerifiedReports wrote: post #448
inejge wrote: post #377

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> Capital "i"s without crossbars aren't capital "i"s. They're lower-case Ls. Any font that doesn't recognize this should be rejected. You have asserted this at least thrice in the past thirty minutes. What makes you feel so strongly about it? "Rejected" for what purpose? Do you understand that you've just trashed Helvetica, to take a famous example?

What an odd question. I don't like degraded communication or stupidity. Is that enough justification? Oh wait, I trashed hallowed Helvetica? The Lord's font? The font used on the tablets Moses carried down from Mount Sinai? OMG whatever shall I do. Meanwhile, the question stands.

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