So they're doing this because Biden changed it to Calibri in 2023, and because it improves accessibility to those who have dyslexia and other difficulties reading serif fonts, which is considered under the umbrella of DEI.
A combination of pettiness and cruelty.
And ignorance. Don’t forget ignorance.
I wouldnt say this is ignorance anymore. Theyre all fully aware of how unnecesarily cruel this is and its exactly why theyre doing it.
I'm sure Rubio doesn't give a shit one way or the other. This is pandering to petty and cruel people, because WOKE BAD gets votes.
These people are really having strong feelings about serifs. Like a font isn't just a practical, technical, or functional consideration, it's an emotional one for them.
That's fucking pathetic.
their teachers told them in middle school to use times new roman. they never questioned why because they were raised to not do that ever under any circumstances
Authoritarian fuckwits making sweeping ultimatums to change typefaces for spurious, racist, and political reasons?
Believe it or not, this has happened before. Perhaps most famously... yes, guess who!
it's more because hitler hated it
Nonetheless, Fraktur typefaces were particularly heavily used during the early years of the Nazi era, when they were initially represented as true German script. In fact, the press was scolded for its frequent use of "Roman characters" under "Jewish influence", and German émigrés were urged to use only "German script".[7] However, Hitler's distaste for Fraktur saw it officially discontinued in 1941 in a Schrifterlass ("edict on script") signed by Martin Bormann, which asserted that it was falsely called "Gothic" and actually consisted of Schwabacher "Jewish letters".[8]
Funnily enough, the decree banning the use of Schwabacher Judenlettern ("Jew-letters of Schwabach") went out using a Nazi party letter head that was printed in a Fraktur typeface.
No change is too small to waste the time of high level officials to revert out of spite
Jfc. I’m so over this timeline. If Calibri is woke, does that make Comic Sans an enemy of the state? Like what the fuck are we even doing anymore?
As everyone knows, "Sans" is just short for "Satan's!" /s
Papyrus just got denied its citizenship ceremony and Wingdings keeps getting called a sexual predator by literal pedophiles
Mr. Rubio’s order cited the origins of serif typefaces in Roman antiquity.
So, it's best because it has "Roman" in the name. And if they like "Roman" salutes, clearly they want "Roman" fonts too.
Microsoft abandoned their Calibri font for Aptos.
Didn't Nazi Germany ban a typefont for silly ideological reasons?
These idiots will do anything they can to make this world dumber.
And now Times New Roman has been ruined for me... what the hell is wrong with this timeline?
What isn't wrong with this timeline?
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