US EditionRubio orders diplomats to return to using Times New Roman, ousting Calibri
Rubio reversed the 2023 Calibri switch, citing $145,000 wasted and lack of accessibility improvements to restore professionalism in U.S. diplomatic communications.
- Mr. Rubio ordered a department-wide switch back to Times New Roman, effective Wednesday, to 'restore decorum and professionalism' in official documents, replacing the 2023 Calibri adoption.
- The 2023 switch to Calibri was adopted because its rounded letters and wide spacing improved accessibility for people with disabilities, but Rubio framed it as a misguided DEI policy by Antony Blinken, former Secretary of State.
- The cable asserted the switch to Calibri `did not achieve that goal` and said it cost the department $145,000, though no evidence was provided.
- The directive immediately changes templates used at embassies and consulates, as Rubio ordered U.S. diplomats and State Department staff to stop using Calibri, dismantling DEI programmes abolished since January.
- The font order fits a wider White House push, noting that President Donald Trump has prioritized scrubbing DEI programs and the Trump administration frames this as returning to merit-based standards, while readability studies finding sans serif easier to read fuel ongoing accessibility debates.
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The ideological dispute in the United States has moved to the official typography of the State Department: Secretary Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to stop using the Calibri letter and replace it with the more "formal" Times New Roman. According to the mainstream U.S. media, Rubio stated in an internal note to staff that the change to the Calibri font ordered by the Democratic government Joe Biden in 2023 is an example of "inefficient" policies i…
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(KGTV) A story that caught our eye claims the Trump Administration is ordering a change in the font used in diplomatic correspondence in the name of fighting DEI.It's true.This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered U.S. embassies and consulates to stop using the Calibri font and return to the more traditional Times New Roman.The Biden Administration made the switch in 2023 to be more accessible to people with visual disabilities.But Rubio…
The police war is taking place in Washington. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposes the return of Times New Roman writing police, considering Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri on behalf of accessibility to be "useless". The department believes that Calibri lacks access to...
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has just sent a cable to U.S. embassies to address the urgent need to switch back the official font used by the United States. The Joe Biden administration had made the switch from Times New Roman to Calibri, and now Rubio is claiming that decision was the result of a misguided diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative. Looked at in isolation, the concept of a “woke” font is almost laughable, but there is an actu…
Calibri, Times New Roman, and the Trump Administration’s Symbolic Battle over Symbols – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
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 State Anthony Blinken announced, loudly and to great fanfare, a switch from Plantin typeface to the Sans Serif family within his department’s official documents. Not since President Dwight Eisenhower appointed African American Foreign Service Offic…
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