A font is woke?
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2025
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They don't even dislike the font itself. They dislike that it was designed with accessibility in mind. Because they are evil assholes.
Yeah that's what's fucked up. It's easier to read if you have dyslexia. So they're getting rid of it just to be assholes.
Don't tell them about Atkinson Hyperlegible. It'd melt their brains
being able to read is woke, so they're going back
They changed the style guide during the Biden administration IIRC. TNR to MS Office default Calibri.
The rule is "everything they did is woke" so by their reckoning, yup. Woke as fuck. It's like:
#1 MLK Jr. Day Exists #2 Juneteenth nee holiday #3 Calibri font
My local news site wrote that they changed back to times new roman because the calibri font was developed for people who had difficulties to read (like dyslexia I assume), thus DEI and the current administration has to change it back.
Yeah, exactly. They got the handover notes of what their DEI program accomplished. That's a list of things to undo.
i think their reasoning for the change also was that it’s easier to read for certain people with disabilities
… so that’s where they get the DEI part from
… but… wasteful? what the actual fuck
I'm sure the "wasteful" part is it took staff time to send a memo about it.
No, Rubio and those like him are just morons.
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Times New Roman was designed for the print era, and Calibri for onscreen viewing. Onscreen viewing is a lot more common today. Based on that technical characteristic, I'd be kind of inclined to favor Calibri or at least some screen-oriented font.
That being said, screens are also higher-resolution than they were in the past, so the rationale might be less-significant than it once was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibri
Calibri (/kəˈliːbri/) is a digital sans-serif typeface family in the humanist or modern style. It was designed by Lucas de Groot in 2002–2004 and released to the general public in 2006, with Windows Vista.[3] In Microsoft Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default font in Word and replaced Arial as the default font in PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook. In Windows 7, it replaced Arial as the default font in WordPad. De Groot described its subtly rounded design as having "a warm and soft character".[3] In January 2024, the font was replaced by Microsoft's new bespoke font, Aptos, as the new default Microsoft Office font, after 17 years.[4][5]
I suspect that the Office shift is probably a large factor in moving to Calibri.
That being said, there are many Times New Roman implementations, but it sounds like Calibri is owned by Microsoft, so I'd be kind of inclined to favor something open.
I personally think that serif fonts are easier to read, especially with differentiating between l and I.
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In fairness some buggers print their emails
I once wrote code for an elderly researcher who would only review code as a hard copy. I'd bring him stacks of paper and he'd get going with his pen and highlighter. And I'll grant that the resolution is normally higher on paper than on most displays. I'm viewing this on a laptop screen that's about 200 ppi. A laser printer is probably printing at a minimum of 300 dpi, maybe 600 or 1200 dpi.
I still think that the few people reading things in print are the exception that proves the rule, though.
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Serifs are MANLY, sans serifs are GAY and WOKE and SOCIALIST
I need muh fonts to have appendages or I feel weak.
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Ok so what I'm gathering today is that the news is stupid as fuck today and I should occupy my time by going outside instead. Fuck this noise.
Everything other than PAPYRUS is too modern and therefore woke!
Tribal, yet futuristic. PAPYRUS!
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID!!!
Sadly, Papyrus could not be reached for comment as it got detained at the border and is now somewhere in Ghana
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Brave of Rubio to go against the President's push for Comic Sans.
I’m no graphic designer, but ewww.
Why not just use comic sans, wingdings, or papyrus while you’re at it? No fucking taste or decorum at all with these fascist pigs.
Is anyone willing to take bets on whether Arabic numerals will be the next to go?
They'll switch to Roman numerals just to say Musk did a Roman salute.
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Is he just dyslexic and it's easier to read times new roman? Because that to me seems more logical, but god forbid you admit you have a disability to the MAGA white house
It’s the other way around. Serif fonts like Times New Roman are harder for dyslexics to read, and the previous admin switched to Calibri for accessibility because it is sans serif.
Oh my God that's so unnecessarily malicious
Oh my God that's so unnecessarily malicious
Trump admin summarized
The real reason may be that they want to make it harder for their forged documents to be discovered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibri#In_crime_and_politics
It's not. It's that TNR was the standard for some swirling "back then" time frame and switching to the MS Office default font happened under Biden. It's literally because they looked at a list of changes under Biden, labeled them all "woke" and only have so many staff hours a day to "unwoke" everything.
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Are they just trying to stay relevant?
Everybody is so busy talking about the shit they've caused to spin out of control, and nobody is really talking about them individually? So now they just sit in their little isolated military housing they stole from soldiers trying to come up with innovative ways to own the libs?
I’ve noticed that a lot of the material produced by the Trump admin uses Garamond Condensed which is the same font Apple used on its machines and corporate documentation in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
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Time to use wingdings
Big Font is all over this. I can smell them.
Perfect article for this community. Begins with:
In an action that reads like a story from The Onion
That's so cargo cult. Use things from the past so the imagined glorious past will come back.
Next they're going to ban letters and only communicate with emojis. That way it's easier to change the interpretation depending on what's in their favor.
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I hope this guy becomes visually impaired. Are there thugs one can hire out there that can make it happen? Can we crowd source the funds for such a project?
I liked when Captain Hook stabbed him. Let's see him try to win the Lost Boys over from Peter Pan now!
What a paramecium.
Truly using his political power to help Americans everywhere. What a hero.
Why not just change it to wingdings then? If the point is to make things harder to read serif fonts are still kinda legible.
Instructions unclear, font reverted even further back to Arial, because fuck you Rubio.
probably cause it was a biden thing. cali to the standard windows font anyway
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