Calibri v. Times New Roman
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/10/politics/rubio-typeface-changes
During the Biden administration the State Department changed its preferred font from Times New Roman to Calibri, citing studies that show that the latter is more accessible to people with certain visual impairments. Sec. State Rubio just announced the reversal and have the State Department back to using Times New Roman, saying the previous change to Calibri was a wasteful sop to DEI wokeness.
I used to prefer Times New Roman, but that was before the iPhone. As more and more of my reading is done on a phone/tablet/computer screen rather than on printer papers, I changed to prefer sans-serif.
I still like certain serif fonts (e.g., Cambria) when the fonts are big, but for most day-to-day reading, I think sans-serif is easier for me.
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/10/politics/rubio-typeface-changes
During the Biden administration the State Department changed its preferred font from Times New Roman to Calibri, citing studies that show that the latter is more accessible to people with certain visual impairments. Sec. State Rubio just announced the reversal and have the State Department back to using Times New Roman, saying the previous change to Calibri was a wasteful sop to DEI wokeness.
I used to prefer Times New Roman, but that was before the iPhone. As more and more of my reading is done on a phone/tablet/computer screen rather than on printer papers, I changed to prefer sans-serif.
I still like certain serif fonts (e.g., Cambria) when the fonts are big, but for most day-to-day reading, I think sans-serif is easier for me.
@Axtremus said in Calibri v. Times New Roman:
the previous change to Calibri was a wasteful sop to DEI wokeness.
And changing back won't be wasteful? The cognitive dissonance continues....
Also the cruelty.
On a separate note, I hate Microsoft's new default font, Aptos. Hate hate hate it! And now, the default font for Japanese also looks horrible, and for many characters, doesn't actually look like Japanese but looks more like Chinese. Which is fine if you're typing in Chinese, but not good for Japanese, and I worry about the impact on my students' writing as well.
It's not super hard to change the default settings in desktop applications, but in browser versions, I can't get it to set my desired font for Japanese, so I have to go in and change it manually every time.
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I am not a fan of sans serif fonts except for display purposes. When I was a typesetter in the '80s, it was generally accepted that sans serif were easier to read in printed material. Then computer screens became ubiquitous. For screen reading, sans serif became more popular because the screen resolutions were not up to providing clear serif rendering.
