At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke

[gulliver]

17. I've always found Calibri stultifying.

Calibri is the main font I've used the past several years though. I like Times and the serif typefaces. A random sample of my books shows all of them use serif.

The OP linked article in the Times uses serif. The OP itself is some kind of sans serif. As an experiment, I put the OP in one tab of my browser and the linked article in the other. For me at least, it's no contest. The article's serif typeface first paragraphs are more "enjoyable."

It's a shame that accessibility (very important) became caught up in what I unfortunately think of as the well-intentioned, ill-thought-out, unvoted-for self-own by us liberals branded DEI. SMH. If the Calibri change was just recommended by the DEI office, I would hope the recommendation took the form of some kind of official, catalogued whitepaper with references, but I'd worry that it was actually just a PowerPoint that was put together by non-experts having "those conversations" and reaching "consensus."

The article says that (after the switch to Calibri), "'accessibility-based document remediation cases' at the department had not declined." That's either a decent metric in support of serif or a sleazy wording. Maybe there were zero such remediation cases both before and after the change because such cases never happen.