"there's a new serif in town"

[mahatmakanejeeves]

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Ariel Edwards-Levy
‪@aedwardslevy.bsky.social‬

"there's a new serif in town"

‪Phil Lewis‬
‪@phillewis.bsky.social‬
· 1h
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move

Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
8:06 PM · Dec 9, 2025

"there's a new serif in town"

— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy.bsky.social) 2025-12-10T01:06:26.132Z

Phil Lewis
‪@phillewis.bsky.social‬

Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move

Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
8:04 PM · Dec 9, 2025

Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move

— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) 2025-12-10T01:04:39.067Z

[Ocelot II]

1. Hahahaha! But Times New Roman isn't right for that crowd, either.

Also, it's hard to read. They don't like Calibri because it's easier for visually-impaired people to read and therefore too woke. Fraktur is hard for everybody to read so it's perfect.

[ret5hd]

2. well, we are living in the New Roman Times...

so it is apt.

[Enter stage left]

3. THIS is what you are fucking worried about...

Talk about a waste of time!



And you, Rubio, are a huge waste of good oxygen.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Little Marco's priorities

[crud]

4. Comic Sans

would be more appropriate.

[Jack Valentino]

5. Totally

[The Madcap]

6. How about Wingdings?

Or maybe that Third Reich German font? I think it's called Fraktur.

[DBoon]

7. I'm surpised he didn't mandate Fraktur

The Fraktur typefaces remained in use in Nazi Germany, when they were initially represented as true German script; official Nazi documents and letterheads employed the font, and the cover of Hitler's Mein Kampf used a hand-drawn version of it

- Wikipedia

Though the Nazis eventually went with Antiqua