Marco Rubio dumps Biden-era typeface at State Department. He claims the font is "woke." - LGBTQ Nation

"Secretary of State Marco Rubio has dumped a Biden-era change to the State Department's typeface, justifying the switch as rooting out remnants of "woke" culture in the U.S. foreign service. He could have just said it was a matter of taste. In an "Action Request" memo obtained by The New York Times, Rubio called on State Department employees at diplomatic posts around the world to return to using Times New Roman in all official correspondence, throwing out the sans-serif typeface Calibri, in use since 2023."

"Rubio shut down the department's DEI office in one of his first acts as secretary. While the switch to Calibri "was not among the department's most illegal, immoral, radical or wasteful instances of DEIA," Rubio wrote (adding the 'A' for accessibility), he called it a failure by its own standards, saying that "accessibility-based document remediation cases" at the department had not declined."

""Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department's official correspondence," Rubio said. The memo's subject line described the move as a "Return to Tradition." Serif-faced Times New Roman had been the official font of the State Department since the early 2000s. Before that, Courier New, a font reminiscent of typewriter faces and diplomatic cables of the past, was used for official correspondence."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed the State Department to revert from Calibri to Times New Roman for all official correspondence, labeling the change a "Return to Tradition." Rubio closed the department's DEI office and criticized the prior font change as rooted in "woke" culture and ineffective at improving accessibility. He asserted that switching to Calibri "achieved nothing except the degradation of the department's official correspondence" and noted that accessibility remediation cases had not declined. Times New Roman had been the department's official font since the early 2000s, succeeding Courier New in earlier diplomatic use.

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