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At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke (archive.is)

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Secretary of State Rubio has concluded that Calibri is a woke font. US diplomats must revert to Times New Roman in official communications.

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it's more because hitler hated it

Nonetheless, Fraktur typefaces were particularly heavily used during the early years of the Nazi era, when they were initially represented as true German script. In fact, the press was scolded for its frequent use of "Roman characters" under "Jewish influence", and German émigrés were urged to use only "German script".[7] However, Hitler's distaste for Fraktur saw it officially discontinued in 1941 in a Schrifterlass ("edict on script") signed by Martin Bormann, which asserted that it was falsely called "Gothic" and actually consisted of Schwabacher "Jewish letters".[8]

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

It's fun to read that Hitler might've understood modernism, even though Nazis banned Bauhaus:

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.

This is from a speech in 1934.