Los Angeles Times

What’s in a font? Marco Rubio’s malicious change to Times New Roman

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. My wife and I are once again rewatching “Mad Men,” a show that has, for ...
The New York Times

Is Times New Roman Better Than Calibri for the State Department?

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 ...
Newsday

Marco Rubio's switch to Times New Roman a font faux pas for Calibri camp

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 ...
NPR

The State Department reinstates an old font, in a typeface about-face

The State Department has reversed a Biden-era font change that aimed to make its paperwork more accessible to readers with disabilities. Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed diplomats around the ...
The American Spectator

Calibri, Times New Roman, and the Trump Administration’s Symbolic Battle over Symbols

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 ...
OPB

The State Department reinstates an old font, in a typeface about-face

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, pictured at a ceremony at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington last week, has directed diplomats to bring back Times New Roman as their official font. Allison ...
NPR

U.S. State Department changes official font from Calibri back to Times New Roman

The U.S. State Department changed its official font from the reader-friendly Calibri back to Times New Roman. Michel Martin speaks with an accessibility design expert about why fonts matter. This is a ...
New York Post

Journalist compares Rubio’s font change order for State Department to Nazis banning ‘Jewish’ fonts

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 ...
Decatur Daily

Calibri font becomes the latest DEI target as Rubio orders return to Times New Roman

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 ...
CNET

Trump's State Department Cancels Calibri, Reverts to Times New Roman: Why Font Matters

The Trump administration's State Department, headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, released a memo on Wednesday with bad news for phone users and those with visual disabilities. It will rescind ...
USA Today

State Department ordered to use Times New Roman font but why?

WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to ...