Stupid hate, intelligent hate
From Gnomon Chronicles
Context: "State Department to switch from "woke" default Microsoft font [Calibri] to old British newspaper typeface"
I suppose stupid hate is less evil than intelligent hate.
Nonetheless, as they say: The stupid, it burns~!
"State Department to switch from 'woke' default Microsoft font to old British newspaper typeface"
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
- Anger makes people stupid
- Emotion makes people less intelligent
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- How can you yield to hate so easily?
- How easily the heartless and hurtful bring ugliness into the world
- The curse inherent in your ugly words
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External links
- Calibri @ Wikipedia
- tate Department to switch from "woke" default Microsoft font to old British newspaper typeface @ Boing Boing (10 December 2025)
- Calibri, a modern sans-serif typeface designed to be readable on screen and page alike, was commissioned by Microsoft and made the Office suite default in 2006. Secretary of State Marco Rubio finds it too woke and has ordered diplomats to use the previous default: Times New Roman, designed for British newspaper The Times in 1931.
- The underlying problem, for Rubio and the Trump administration, is that Calibri was crafted to be more easily read by people with vision impairments and dyslexia, and is therefore is a "diversity, equity and inclusion" measure to be gotten rid of. Its use was formally standardized at the State Department under the previous administration of Joe Biden.
- Mr. Rubio's directive to all diplomatic posts around the world blamed "radical" diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility programs for what he said was a misguided and ineffective switch from the serif typeface Times New Roman to sans serif Calibri in official department paperwork.
- The problem with Times New Roman was that it was intended for newsprint, where the ink will spread into the fibers, thickening the letterforms. On smooth paper, its letterforms are thin and spindly. On older screens, pixelation mangles them entirely. If you wanted to switch to an old-fashioned, formal-looking serif typeface because you wanted to Make Typography Great Again, there are many better options than Times New Roman. Microsoft provided Constantia with Calibri. Sometimes, it's important to remember that these guys are just plain stupid.
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- Post @ Facebook (12 December 2025)
