Calibri is too woke for the State Department

"Return to Tradition: Times New Roman 14-Point Font Required for All Department Paper,"

"achieved nothing except the degradation of the department's official correspondence,"

"generally perceived to connote tradition, formality and ceremony."

"To restore decorum and professionalism to the Department's written work products and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program, the Department is returning to Times New Roman as its standard typeface,"

Times New Roman 14-point has been reinstated as the standard typeface for official U.S. State Department communications, reversing a 2023 shift to Calibri that aimed to improve accessibility for readers with disabilities. Calibri is a sans-serif font considered more readable on screens and easier for screen-reading technology to distinguish. Microsoft used Calibri as the default for 17 years before replacing it with Aptos in 2024. The reinstatement is justified by claims that serif typefaces signal tradition, formality, and ceremony, and by a stated goal of restoring decorum and professionalism while eliminating a DEIA program and aligning with a unified foreign-relations directive.

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