A font is woke?

Times New Roman was designed for the print era, and Calibri for onscreen viewing. Onscreen viewing is a lot more common today. Based on that technical characteristic, I'd be kind of inclined to favor Calibri or at least some screen-oriented font.

That being said, screens are also higher-resolution than they were in the past, so the rationale might be less-significant than it once was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibri

Calibri (/kəˈliːbri/) is a digital sans-serif typeface family in the humanist or modern style. It was designed by Lucas de Groot in 2002–2004 and released to the general public in 2006, with Windows Vista.[3] In Microsoft Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default font in Word and replaced Arial as the default font in PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook. In Windows 7, it replaced Arial as the default font in WordPad. De Groot described its subtly rounded design as having "a warm and soft character".[3] In January 2024, the font was replaced by Microsoft's new bespoke font, Aptos, as the new default Microsoft Office font, after 17 years.[4][5]

I suspect that the Office shift is probably a large factor in moving to Calibri.

That being said, there are many Times New Roman implementations, but it sounds like Calibri is owned by Microsoft, so I'd be kind of inclined to favor something open.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/736/

Serifs are MANLY, sans serifs are GAY and WOKE and SOCIALIST

This is what conservatives are upset about.

Brave of Rubio to go against the President's push for Comic Sans.

I’m no graphic designer, but ewww.

Why not just use comic sans, wingdings, or papyrus while you’re at it? No fucking taste or decorum at all with these fascist pigs.

Is anyone willing to take bets on whether Arabic numerals will be the next to go?

Is he just dyslexic and it's easier to read times new roman? Because that to me seems more logical, but god forbid you admit you have a disability to the MAGA white house

Ok so what I'm gathering today is that the news is stupid as fuck today and I should occupy my time by going outside instead. Fuck this noise.

Are they just trying to stay relevant?

Everybody is so busy talking about the shit they've caused to spin out of control, and nobody is really talking about them individually? So now they just sit in their little isolated military housing they stole from soldiers trying to come up with innovative ways to own the libs?

I’ve noticed that a lot of the material produced by the Trump admin uses Garamond Condensed which is the same font Apple used on its machines and corporate documentation in the 1980’s and 1990’s.

Time to use wingdings

The real reason may be that they want to make it harder for their forged documents to be discovered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibri#In_crime_and_politics

Big Font is all over this. I can smell them.

That's so cargo cult. Use things from the past so the imagined glorious past will come back.

Perfect article for this community. Begins with:

In an action that reads like a story from The Onion

I hope this guy becomes visually impaired. Are there thugs one can hire out there that can make it happen? Can we crowd source the funds for such a project?

Next they're going to ban letters and only communicate with emojis. That way it's easier to change the interpretation depending on what's in their favor.

probably cause it was a biden thing. cali to the standard windows font anyway

Instructions unclear, font reverted even further back to Arial, because fuck you Rubio.

Truly using his political power to help Americans everywhere. What a hero.

Why not just change it to wingdings then? If the point is to make things harder to read serif fonts are still kinda legible.

As America loses it clout and it's international influence, the state department focuses on THIS? And I much prefer NTR of calibri, but good God, is this the only thing Rubio is capable of?

I liked when Captain Hook stabbed him. Let's see him try to win the Lost Boys over from Peter Pan now!

What a paramecium.

“Americans allow Marco Rubio to ban Calibri font for being too DEI”

“Not only am I tiny, so is my dick!”