This is the dumbest shit.
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2025
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I had to read too much of it to be sure it wasn't satire.
I hate both of them as fonts. Times New Roman is too... ugh. And Calibri is the default in Office, soooo... hard to imagine that much thought went into choosing it. IMO I've always found it too friendly? Being the default, I've seen a million random things use it which makes it hard to take seriously. I'm realizing I think about fonts more than I thought.
TL;DR: If you have to have an official font, just use the Noto family. Every language under the sun, clean, serif or sans, easy peasy.
You mean the trump administration is not changing to Comic Sans??? Every clown car should use Comic Sans.
Anyone who has ever digitized an old, degraded paper document wants you to use a non-serif font. Large language models have helped the process considerably because they can infer words from context but they aren't perfect and make mistakes.
I don't remember the font being changed for DEI reasons. I remember them leaving Times New Roman because some high schooler went viral with math that showed how much ink would be saved by using a sans serif font.
edit: Did some digging. It was the DOD that switched to Arial ~2013.
It says it was for greater accessibility, which I took to mean, for people with vision problems, Calibri is apparently designed to be more readable. It's another attack against the vulnerable. What's next? Banning Braille? The bumps make toxically insecure boys feel inadequate...