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

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Post by BobaFloutist » Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 8:14 PM UTC

IAmBroom wrote: post #80

xigoi wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there any evidence that sans-serif typefaces are more readable? I’ve previously seen headlines claiming the opposite.

You can find evidence for both sides, because life is more complicated than that. Do you have 20/20 vision? Hi-def screen? High contrast? Floaters in your eyes? Cataracts? Are you tired? How is the text laid out? Line spacing? Literally all of these can impact the answer.

Ok, now insert "broadly" or "generally" into the previous comment and respond to what they actually meant.

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

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Post by seydor » Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 9:27 PM UTC

Does that mean there will be a Times Caesar , a Times Lady , a Times Mistress and Universal Times new Rome Time? What a Time to be alive

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

#83

Post by Bender » Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 9:33 PM UTC

Perhaps it is time to get traction on "tabs vs spaces". /s

If they want to look like a proper government then the correct answer is monospace and in ALL CAPS just like FAA NOTAMS, obviously.

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

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Post by ebbi » Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 10:20 PM UTC

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

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Post by HPsquared » Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 10:20 PM UTC

Does anyone else like to change the font on news articles using Inspect Element?

Also in Word etc, if I've got to spend a lot of time in a large document, I'll usually edit the paragraph body style temporarily to something sans serif. It's just better on screen.

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

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Post by steanne » Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 10:23 PM UTC

HPsquared wrote: post #85

Does anyone else like to change the font on news articles using Inspect Element? Also in Word etc, if I've got to spend a lot of time in a large document, I'll usually edit the paragraph body style temporarily to something sans serif. It's just better on screen.

i change it with refont

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refont/

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

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Post by infotainment » Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 10:25 PM UTC

I still can’t believe they switched to Calibri at all; the only people who should be using Calibri are people who don’t realize that Microsoft Word lets you pick other fonts.

I do wish they’d gone for a classier serif though; Garamond was right there.

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

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Post by youngNed » Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 10:27 PM UTC

ebbi wrote: post #84

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But.... and this is important, it's not funny.

"Here is a thing that makes a slight difference, with no cost, to a small percentage of people"

"Nah, woke. Let's make it worse for them."

There is nothing funny about performative cruelty

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

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Post by throw03172019 » Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 10:27 PM UTC

I’m surprised this administration did not chose Comic Sans as the default font.

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

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Post by groundzeros2015 » Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 10:29 PM UTC

youngNed wrote: post #88

ebbi wrote: post #84

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But.... and this is important, it's not funny. "Here is a thing that makes a slight difference, with no cost, to a small percentage of people" "Nah, woke. Let's make it worse for them." There is nothing funny about performative cruelty

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