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Font of ‘wasteful’ diversity: Trump’s state department orders return to Times New Roman (www.theguardian.com)
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the pettiness is crazy lmao

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[-] lib1@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago

The Nazis also had a whole debacle with banning and regulating fonts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua%E2%80%93Fraktur_dispute

(Scroll down to the “Nazi Period” subheader)

Several fonts were accused of being Jewish fonts or containing Jewish letters

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

One underused point leftists make is how the right is full of medieval peasants.

The same people who think fucking FONTS can be reverse-racist to white people want to lecture you to not get mad at them when they nag others on how whites are just better than everyone.

[-] acab_means_cop_Dva@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago

12% of men report thinking about Times New Roman at least once a day.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

There must be a remembrance of the font during the sexual act

[-] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Regular default font changes in MS Office suite were basis for detection of counterfeit documents in trials. I.e. if document was dated before a font used in it had been created, it was fake.

I wonder how (if) this could be connected.

[-] inTheShadowOf@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

I didn't think anyone liked Times New Roman 💀

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

Arial, Comic Sans and Times New Roman are the only fonts they know by name. Arial sounds too much like the (woke) mermaid, and comic sans is too geeky. Times New Roman it is!

This is probably the actual thought process

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Retvrn to Papyrus white-pharaoh

[-] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

When I rule the world the only font allowed will be wingdings.

[-] tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago
[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[-] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Comic Sans

[-] addie@feddit.uk 11 points 1 week ago

Designed for newspaper printing, so it's exceedingly narrow, and it's also intended for ink which will 'bleed' a bit, so the fine details are too fine for high quality prints.

If you're arranging text into two-inch wide columns and then printing with a high-speed roller, then it might be a good choice.

But since that's niche and very unlikely, it's probably a bad choice. It's also a terrible on-screen font, and since the cost of rendering a web page isn't meaningfully affected by the size of the glyphs, then there's no justification for choosing it for web purposes.

[-] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

It's fine, but Abhaya libre is better. People sleep on serif fonts these days.

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Ooh yes that's lovely

[-] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Every font I can change is Abhya Libre. It makes me feel classy. I used to use the Evangelion font, but it has terrible kerning.

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

i-cant I completely assumed 'font' was in the "fountain" sense of the word, oh well:

kelly Times New Roman Empire

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

Times New Roman Salute

[-] neroiscariot@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

My boss is a senile old ghoul who demands I put things in times new roman when designing. I put it in Garamond like the fucking rebel I am

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Use Cambria math for extra points

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

Yeah I don’t think they’re going to get the culture war chuds all frothy over the idea of a DEI font. Especially as the “DEI” font in question is the Microsoft default font, it’s the one most of their base is using anyway.

[-] godlessworm@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

MY president said no more woke DEI font. the left seeths!! 😂😂

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

I like how they're trying to turn diversity into a bad word.

In my day, it was communism that was supposed to remove all diversity and have us all wearing the same grey jumpsuit, like in A Wrinkle In Time, squashing any differences between us.

[-] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Woke fonts. I’m so tired of the culture war boss

yes-honey-left

[-] cyriacaofthenewsun@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

I really can't wrap my head around how Times New Roman is supposed to be a non-DEIA font, like Calibri isn't any more dyslexia friendly, it doesn't go about excluding anyone. Literally the only noticable difference is that TNR has serifs and Calibri doesn't.

[-] thefunkycomitatus@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

All I know is that Helvetica is fairly woke.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Helvetica? She sounds like she has BLUE HAIR

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Helvetica? I hardly know her!

[-] huf@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Times new Roman is hypermasculine and has constant sex with all the sexy female fonts, while Calibri is a male font that has ANALSEX with other male fonts. What's not to understand here?

[-] cyriacaofthenewsun@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

But Baskerville mogs Times New Roman any day.

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