The font was chosen in an effort to make documents easier to read for the vision impaired.

So It's Republican policy that the government must not, even in the smallest way, make life any easier for disabled people? And the government must not do nothing and leave in place something that already makes life easier for them, but must actively intervene to make it harder? Of course it is, but what the fuck is wrong with these people that they dedicate their entire life to getting into government so they can punch down and hurt others? How have they not even accidentally stumbled into being better than the worst they can be?

Were the Epstein files too legible?

Oh they found that the font was helping someone. Can't have that.

These people are such fucking trash...

Imagine being so much snowflake that a simple font upsets you. Words fail.

Ugh.

At least Arial exists. And Helvetica. But Times New Roman? What is this, English class in the early aughts? 12pt font, double spaced with one inch margins?

Hell, if you want wanna make America great again make it Courier; tech bros'll think you're coding but we know you really just want to take us back to late 1800s when typewriters and bad economic policy were in. Or maybe something appropriate for this administration, like Wingdings.

its a nice distraction of whats going in with the epstein files, and immigration.

"Small government" but also lets waste money on dumb shit like this that doesn't matter.

Also wouldn't a serif font cost more in ink over the course of millions of documents printed? Those serifs might not take a lot of ink to add but they do add up.

Reminder that Donald J. Trump fucks children and there is proof of this that they are trying to distract us from in order to protect him and the rest of the kidfuckers.

STAY ON POINT.

This has got to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.

I have never in my life tied a font to politics or morality.

Must be a slow day in the state department...

i mean you can't spell calibri without lib. where's your god now, atheists?

What. An. Idiot.

So this is 100 percent true, verifiable, by me. Just keep in mind this is the same admin that wanted to cut 'frivolous spending'. Think for a minute the wasted development hours changing the font on every webpage on every portal that DoS uses. Seriously, it's fucking stupid.

Ok Boomer

Marco Rubio apparently doesn't have enough shit to do at work.

You know how if you're reading a headline from the onion and you mistake it for real you've "eaten the onion?"

Is there a name for the reverse phenomenon? Where a real headline reflecting actual reality is so ridiculous that you reject it out of hand as satire only to realize it was genuine? Regurgitating the onion? What's the name for this?

That's it, were only going to use comic Sans serif from now on!

Times New Roman is wayyyy too classy for Trump Administration. They should switch to Comic Sans MS.

...Oh no, I'm re-heating font jokes that people older than me found funny decades ago. What has this present political climate reduced us to?

So just how gay CAN the Calibri font make you? Merely fabulous? Or are we talking about midriff-baring T-shirt and nut-hugger shorts gay?

"Unlike you woke snowflakes I use Times New Roman"

All future documents must be in Fraktur.

I hope this gets incorporated in a College Humor font wars sketch...

This has been, and certainly now will firmly remain my favourite font.

Calibri kind of sucks, it's better on screen then TNR, but it's ugly as shit still. A better font could probably be found that reads well on screen and in print. But:

Rubio did admit in the memo that Calibri wasn’t the “most illegal, immoral, radical or wasteful” example of DEI to his mind’s eye, but he still berated the font for contributing to “the degradation” of the State Department’s official correspondence.

Fuck this guy, regardless.

What a weird flex

Everybody knows that this is yet another distraction, but how fragile are they ready to look like. They feel threatened by a text font and some numbers these days.

This is one of the dumbest distractions I've ever witnessed. I suppose the purposely forcing an acknowledged shitty font that was pushed out for a reason is on brand for such a shitty administration.

We are a Wingdings nation!

I was expecting Comic Sans.

Uh-huh. Sure.
I'll get right on that, as soon as you can explain exactly how the singular genitive declension of the Latin word Dēus has literally any bearing whatsoever on office policies.

It's good to see the papyrus guy bounced back and became Secretary of State

That's it. I'm going to ban cupboards in my house for being to DEI too!

Makes about as much sense to me as banning a "DEI font"

Hope someone throws acid in his face and impairs his vision. That would be golden.

I'm surprised he didn't make everything comic sans

The font was chosen in an effort to make documents easier to read for the vision impaired.

This is like removing the requirement of having curb ramps on new sidewalks because it makes it possible for people in wheelchairs to navigate

I hope they make papyrus the official font

Just when you think you've heard all the ridiculous shit out there, this guy goes and proves you wrong.

He wanted to make it Times Neo Nazi but was informed that didn't exist

(please no one check or inform me if that's actually a thing or even close to real)

Wait till he finds out about comic sans

MAGAts are so petty.

“Not only am I tiny, so is my dick!”

I thought “tech crunch” was something silly that Silicon Valley (the TV show) made up!

When I first saw this I mistook Calibri for Cambria. Why were they using Calibri (a sans serif font) at 15px for documents in the first place?

Associating the change with DEI is absolutely ridiculous, but Calibri was a silly choice. I think they should make everyone use LaTeX personally 😄