Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column. The United States is breaking up with a font because it’s just not their type. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered American diplomats to use the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The typeface, the target of the State Department’s typographical about-face, has been entangled in politics before. By Yan Zhuang It has been a key player in a corruption scandal and regularly ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered U.S. embassies and consulates to use Times New Roman font for diplomatic communications, reversing the Biden administration’s switch to Calibri. “Typography ...

It’s the rise of the Roman Empire at the U.S. State Department — Times New Roman, that is. In a memo to the department on Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed U.S. diplomats worldwide to ...

The Calibri font is the latest government worker to be fired from the Trump administration for its association with diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. In an action that reads like a ...

If I had to pick a word to describe Calibri, the sans-serif typeface that was the default font for Microsoft apps from 2007 to 2024, it would probably be “inoffensive.” Sure, Microsoft’s “extremely ...

Calibri and Times New Roman have been at war for years. And now the two fonts are once again pitted against each other after the U.S. State Department declared it will be swapping its current official ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font instead of Calibri, reversing a change made under the Biden administration. Rubio's predecessor Antony ...