Assume that your task is to decide which typeface should be mandated for all official federal government documents. What factors should you consider? You would want that typeface to be sufficiently ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has formally changed the State Department’s official font from Calibri to Times New Roman, dismissing the old choice as “informal” and a “wasteful” paean to diversity.

The State Department’s decision to stop using the Calibri typeface in favor of Times New Roman shook one community far removed from the workings of government: type designers. “I love it when, once in ...

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Calibri and Times New Roman have been at war for years. And now the two fonts are once again pitted against each other after the U.S. State Department declared it will be swapping its current official ...

Jon Contino, the Wantagh- and Seaford-raised designer, greeted with dismay the news this week that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had directed the Department of State to use the Times New Roman ...

The culture wars, not content with bending and blocking the words we read, apparently come for the typeface in which authors write those words, too. Three years ago, President Joe Biden’s Secretary of ...

The typeface, the target of the State Department’s typographical about-face, has been entangled in politics before. By Yan Zhuang It has been a key player in a corruption scandal and regularly ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio mandated this week that the Calibri font no longer be used on any diplomatic correspondence, and really, Stephen Colbert just wants to know how Rubio has the time to go ...

One prominent journalist compared Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s order for the State Department to change its official font style to the Nazis’ 1941 ban on “Jewish” fonts. Former Voice of America ...

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomatic correspondence to stop using the Calibri font and return to the more traditional Times New Roman effective Wednesday, reversing a ...