Secretary of State Rubio has concluded that Calibri is a woke font. US diplomats must revert to Times New Roman in official communications.
So they’re doing this because Biden changed it to Calibri in 2023, and because it improves accessibility to those who have dyslexia and other difficulties reading serif fonts, which is considered under the umbrella of DEI.
A combination of pettiness and cruelty.
And ignorance. Don’t forget ignorance.
I wouldnt say this is ignorance anymore. Theyre all fully aware of how unnecesarily cruel this is and its exactly why theyre doing it.
I’m sure Rubio doesn’t give a shit one way or the other. This is pandering to petty and cruel people, because WOKE BAD gets votes.
Jfc. I’m so over this timeline. If Calibri is woke, does that make Comic Sans an enemy of the state? Like what the fuck are we even doing anymore?
Calibri is such a nice readable font too.
As everyone knows, “Sans” is just short for “Satan’s!” /s
Back to !undertale_deltarune@lemmy.world with ye!
Papyrus just got denied its citizenship ceremony and Wingdings keeps getting called a sexual predator by literal pedophiles
Comic Sans, Papyrus, and Brush Script. Better known as the Axis of Evil.
These people are really having strong feelings about serifs. Like a font isn’t just a practical, technical, or functional consideration, it’s an emotional one for them.
That’s fucking pathetic.
their teachers told them in middle school to use times new roman. they never questioned why because they were raised to not do that ever under any circumstances
Sorry, almost forgot:
FONTS DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS.
Authoritarian fuckwits making sweeping ultimatums to change typefaces for spurious, racist, and political reasons?
Believe it or not, this has happened before. Perhaps most famously… yes, guess who!
Funnily enough, the decree banning the use of Schwabacher Judenlettern (“Jew-letters of Schwabach”) went out using a Nazi party letter head that was printed in a Fraktur typeface.
Came here to make the same exact joke:
Antiqua unlocked.
I remember briefly thinking Times New Roman looked serious and professional. Around the time of my first book report
That’s because it was literally designed for a newspaper
Yeah and it was before I learned who owned the newspapers
Didn’t Nazi Germany ban a typefont for silly ideological reasons?
Fraktur is rather a ‘calligraphic hand’, i.e. the manner of drawing the letters, which can be implemented by different specific fonts.
Anyway, Hitler just personally disliked Fraktur, and already gave a speech against it in 1934:
Your alleged Gothic internalization does not fit well in this age of steel and iron, glass and concrete, of womanly beauty and manly strength, of head raised high and intention defiant […] In a hundred years, our language will be the European language. The nations of the east, the north and the west will, to communicate with us, learn our language. The prerequisite for this: The script called Gothic is replaced by the script we have called Latin so far.
Then in 1941 Fraktur was finally banned, with the pretext that it was actually not Fraktur but Schwabacher, a different blackletter style, which allegedly was Jewish.
Moreover, it was banned so hard that cursive scripts Kurrent and Sütterlin were also forbidden — and as a consequence, people educated after 1941 often couldn’t read handwritten letters and notes of their ancestors.
These idiots will do anything they can to make this world dumber.
Honestly you’ve distilled the truth more perfectly here than maybe anyone else has.
Please be The Onion, please be The Onion
Damn.
No change is too small to waste the time of high level officials to revert out of spite
And now Times New Roman has been ruined for me… what the hell is wrong with this timeline?
What isn’t wrong with this timeline?
Mr. Rubio’s order cited the origins of serif typefaces in Roman antiquity.
So, it’s best because it has “Roman” in the name. And if they like “Roman” salutes, clearly they want “Roman” fonts too.
So now fonts are political. Please, someone wipe this timeline and start over.
Calibri Light is my go to. Fuck you, Rubio.
I always hated Calibri in larger sizes (headers, titles) but Calibri Light saved it for me
Microsoft abandoned their Calibri font for Aptos.
