Secretary of State Marco Rubio is ordering every U.S. diplomat to ditch Calibri and revert to the classic Times New Roman — and blasting his predecessor for embracing a typeface he says never belonged in America’s official voice.
Rubio’s blistering decree — obtained by Reuters and The New York Times — trashes the Blinken-era switch to Calibri as nothing more than “degradation” disguised as accessibility.
“Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department’s official correspondence,” Rubio wrote, mocking the softer, rounder font as a Biden-era DEI indulgence.
Blinken made the switch two years ago, pitching Calibri’s wider, gentler letters as a readability boost for people with low vision or dyslexia. Experts have since split on whether the science actually backs that claim — but Rubio isn’t mincing words.
The Secretary slammed the change as “wasteful” and “woke,” tying it to what he called another bloated DEIA program leftover from the last administration.
“To restore decorum and professionalism … and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program, the Department is returning to Times New Roman,” Rubio declared, adding that the classic serif typeface best reflects the President’s “One Voice for America’s Foreign Relations” directive.
For the record, Times New Roman has been the State Department’s go-to since 2004, replacing Courier New — the monospaced typewriter-style font beloved by screenwriters but hardly the stuff of diplomatic gravitas.
More over at The New York Post:
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