Assume that your task is to decide which typeface should be mandated for all official federal government documents. What factors should you consider? You would want that typeface to be sufficiently ...

In times of political division, it can seem like just about everything, no matter how trivial, is fodder for debate. Recently, typefaces became a hot-button issue, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...

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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 ...

Jon Contino, the Wantagh- and Seaford-raised designer, greeted with dismay the news this week that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had directed the Department of State to use the Times New Roman ...

A sans serif font, Secretary of State Marco Rubio just decreed, is simply inadequate for world-class diplomacy. Rubio on Tuesday ordered the agency to immediately cease using the Calibri font and go ...

The culture wars, not content with bending and blocking the words we read, apparently come for the typeface in which authors write those words, too. Three years ago, President Joe Biden’s Secretary of ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio mandated this week that the Calibri font no longer be used on any diplomatic correspondence, and really, Stephen Colbert just wants to know how Rubio has the time to go ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomatic correspondence to stop using the Calibri font and return to the more traditional Times New Roman effective Wednesday, reversing a ...