Imagine being so insecure that you’re threatened by a font…
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Font of ‘wasteful’ diversity: Trump’s state department orders return to Times New Roman
(www.theguardian.com)
Ugh even the fonts they like are old and boring. Anyways, this is a Comic Sans administration if I ever saw one.
The white house is full of WingDings.
Zapf Dingbats if you ask me but you're definitely onto something here. 😅
Comic Sans is good for dyslexics, so this is definitely not the right font for this administration, despite its name.
What if it’s written in ketchup?
Hey, there are many fantastic old fonts. Most of the greats date back to the nineteenth century.
Times New Roman isn't one of them, of course, but still.
As for Comic Sans, if I recall correctly it was intended to make reading easier for dyslexic readers, so I can't see these bastards using it. Times New Roman is more their thing... though I could maybe see them using Papyrus.
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This reminds me of Reagan removing solar panels from the white house just to spite the libs. We spent good money installing those, and they only served to save money down the road. It probably took even more money to uninstall them with 0 benefits in doing so. Just leave it, literally is hurting nothing at all.
It really feels like all of this is just fire and movement to confuse those that are not paying attention, or unable to. Make it easier for the proles to land on the decision to bury their heads in the sand.
This administration is a master class in insecurity projection.
Culture wars are all Republicans have. Their prime objective is to get people arguing over things that don't matter.
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Welcome to the culture war I guess, Calibri. God, this timeline is dumb.
Fascist timelines always are.
look i know literally everyone says this and it's overdone by this point, but it's true: we are in the onion timeline
Funny how they switched to Calibri in 2023, after it's been the default since office 2007.
Even funnier how one year after the change, microsoft changed default again away from Calibri to Aptos
My take on Aptos is that they designed it to make alternative office suites less compatible. Until now, when you installed Microsoft Office, its fonts were available system wide, so by installing Office 2007 or greater, it would make Calibri available for any other office suite on the system.
But now Aptos is an exclusive of Office 365. Without hacks, the font can only be used in the latest versions of Microsoft Word, and LibreOffice on the same system can't load it, forced to replace it.
People will think "what the hell, when I open word files with LibreOffice, It changes the font, LibreOffice is not good"
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Literally anything to avoid doing actual work.
Republicans are like the one asshole in the group project that shows up with some stale donuts once and thinks they've fulfilled their end of the group project responsibilities.
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Actually insane.
Wasteful how?
It would be wasteful to miss ANY opportunity to blame Biden for fucking anything
How is using the default font wasteful? Apart from anything else I'm pretty sure it uses less ink.
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The experts and my own eyeballs agree that Calibri is slightly easier to read than Times New Roman, and it's an improvement in legibility that means a lot to people with poor eyesight. But Republicans don't give a shit about people with vision issues, probably think they should pull their eyes up by their bootstraps, so Times New Roman it is.
I dunno, Times New Roman looks an awful lot like a book or a newspaper and reading is woke.
Switch to comic sans like a real murican.
Missed opportunity to introduce a new typeface named Real Great American.
Switching to German Fraktur typeface would've been too on the nose.
The Nazis abolished Fraktur because they were thought to be influenced by Hebrew letters. They preferred Antiqua after 1941. There’s a bit of interesting history surrounding fonts and the Nazis. Their party newspaper Völkischer Beobachter used a font designed by a Jew.
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Just go a step further. Just make reading/writing woke as a matter of fact using your eyes to perceive should be woke too actually make living woke that way they can end themselves to spite the left
Serifs aren't just decorative..
What a bunch of fucking idiots.
Shout out to all the people who don't know what font they are using!
We use fonts? 🙈
What in the goddamn actual fuck?
One of my university profs absolutely hated TNR. He said that all the little 'hands and feet' were distracting, and I agree with him.
OK, now is the time to finally win the vi/Emacs war. We just need to convince the GOP that Emacs was designed to help a disadvantaged population compete in the workforce, and we're on the way to banning it! This will be my greatest success.
Why can't they just use Helvetica like any normal bureaucratic institution?
Because the Swiss are foreign
Actually, it's a little surprising now that I think of it that the US government never designed its own official font. That's exactly the sort of weird shit any administration might try
Yeah, even Italy designed their official font. It's called Titillium.
Instinctively I feel like doing that is a bad idea, since it makes it easier for scammers to create documents that have the feel of authority when trying to con people.
Yep! That's a very pressing and important issue to address. That's exactly what will make America great again!
San serif fonts are my jam. Screw TNR for regular use. Serif fonts have their place when you're trying to give a document a certain feel, but nothing beats Arial or Calibri for regular reading for me.
Not just any sans serif.
Grotesques is where it's at.
Maybe some geometrics for variety, or neo-grotesques if you need something simple and boring.
Those look right up my alley. Thanks!
scans wikipedia article
Hell, yeah! Helvetica!
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