Trump administration reverses font change meant to aid readers with disabilities

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Scripps News

Posted 2:59 PM, Dec 10, 2025 and last updated 3:14 PM, Dec 10, 2025


The Trump administration is making changes to official State Department documents, starting with the typeface used in government communications.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued an order Tuesday requiring the State Department to stop using the Calibri font and return to Times New Roman for all official documents.

The move reverses a 2023 decision by the Biden administration to switch to Calibri based on recommendations from internal diversity and disability groups. According to a cable sent to U.S. diplomatic posts reported by The New York Times, the font change is intended to "restore decorum and professionalism to the department's written work."

Calibri is considered more accessible for people with reading difficulties due to its simpler letter shapes and wider spacing between characters. Accessibility advocates had praised the Biden administration's adoption of the font for making government documents easier to read for individuals with dyslexia and other reading challenges.

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/the-president/trump-administration-reverses-font-change-meant-to-aid-readers-with-disabilities

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More petty shit.



Here’s a visual comparison between Times New Roman and Calibri, with both fonts set to the same size. Image: Jess Weatherbed / The Verge

(above from here - https://www.theverge.com/news/841664/calibri-is-too-woke-for-the-state-department)

[The Roux Comes First]

1. As One Interested in Fonts and Such, This is Quite Interesting! But

I don't see it as anything more than finally getting beyond the low-hanging fruit in undoing everything Biden and taunting People Who Need People.

I.e., the luckiest people in the world.

[slightlv]

2. Yippers, it fits right in with rump...

It's petty, vindictive, and just something else to undo from the Biden Admin, since trump can't do anything to better what Biden did... he'll just undo everything. That'll be great... the comparison will be clear and concise... and Democrats ought to run with it on every banner and message, new media and old.

Also, it allows him to hurt another group of people he'd really just railed against and diminished by words. The "disabled" don't fit into his Gestapo-ruled, Nazi nation.

[PJMcK]

3. Personally, I prefer Palatino

It’s an elegant, professional and readable font. It works in all point sizes and bold/italics, etc.

For a musical font, I prefer Petrucci. It more closely emulates the classical type font from manual typewriters modified for music.

[IronLionZion]

4. I'm sure many MAGA voters have bad vision

I stopped using Times New Roman long ago. I like Arial or Calibri.

[ultralite001]

5. Serif (Times New Roman) versus

Sans Serif (Calibri)...

Fonts come in two broad categories: serif + sans serif.

Serif fonts have small extensions at the end of each stroke, called serifs.
Examples are Times New Roman, Garamond + Cambria.




Sans serif fonts have no serifs.
Examples are Arial, Tahoma + Calibri.





Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

Poole's conclusion:
"...it makes much more sense to argue in favour of serif or sans serif typefaces on aesthetic grounds than on the question of legibility."

https://alexpoole.info/blog/which-are-more-legible-serif-or-sans-serif-typefaces/

[BumRushDaShow]

9. "Poole's conclusion: "it makes much more sense to argue in favour of serif or sans serif typefaces on aesthetic grounds"

The issue that he misses is sans serif is supposedly easier to process by those with vision disabilities. Similar has been noted about use of certain colors on webpages with text content.

Am guessing that this will all be dissolved soon - Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Standards

(I had to have annual training on the ADA and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act when I worked for the feds but "laws" are irrelevant nowadays)

[ultralite001]

12. Poole's conclusions were formulated for lawyers...

Back in olden times, readability + consistency were important considering how much the legal field depended
on reading, referencing + reproducing pleadings + citations... Their concern for accessibility by those with
low / no vision was negligible.

Advances in optical scanning, character recognition + speech synthesis are important tools that allow people
who are blind or visually impaired to access printed information. However, access for those w/ vision impairments
is much more complicated than simply changing a font that is recognizable by machine readers -- + Krasnov's minions
have repeatedly shown they are oblivious to consequences of their actions...

Actions by this administration follow a recognizable pattern: Make online information unreadable; make once
accessible online information disappear; ban printed media altogether... + that's just a beginning...

[BumRushDaShow]

13. All of this is why there were regs and guidance documents put in place for the federal government

by Democratic-led administrations, in order to improve the accessiblity of FEDERAL websites.

The loon GOP doesn't give a damn and as some other sources of this same story note - "accessibility" and "disability" is considered "DEI" and "Woke".

[ultralite001]

14. 100%

I spent a considerable amount of free time in my younger days adapting equipment + designing
software to be used in "adaptive environments" so low / no vision folks could do remarkable jobs
(often for federal, state + local governments)... so wheelchair bound folks could function impressively
in their workplace... too many instances to mention... but in every instance -- the time spent +
modifications made had far-reaching positive results that were paid forward each + every day...

As you note, "The loon GOP doesn't give a damn"...

[70sEraVet]

6. Any font will do....

AS LONG AS IT IS LOUD, ASININE AND INSULTING!!!!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!!!!

[Prairie Gates]

7. "Calibri is considered more accessible for people with reading difficulties"

Sans serif typefaces are "considered" more accessible (for screen in particular) as a result of 40 years of methodologically rigorous usability testing in industry and academia. It's not an aesthetic judgment.

[regnaD kciN]

8. Can we make Calibri the default here...?

[BumRushDaShow]

11. I think many browsers (and even operating systems) let you change the font types

It might be more limited for mobile devices and their apps.

[MLWR]

10. That's just fucking petty. May he never experience a single moment of real happiness.

[pansypoo53219]

15. TRUMP LIKES TO SEE TRUMP IN TIMES NEW ROMAN. + if he gets to punch down. WEEEEEEE.

[Attilatheblond]

16. Kinda surprised the King of Cheap Kitsch doesn't insist on gold ink only

[groundloop]

17. What a bunch of petty, mean spirited assholes.

[Talitha]

18. Just another attempt to distract us from the Epstein files.