Bill Gates won’t like this

One of the most idiotic bits of news to come from the house of Krasnov in the last few days was this:

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomats to revert to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken’s decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move, according to a leaked internal cable.
The department switched to Calibri, a modern sans-serif font, in January 2023, saying it was a more accessible font for people with disabilities because it did not have decorative angular features and was at the time the default in Microsoft products.
Some scientific studies have suggested that sans-serif fonts such as Calibri are indeed easier to read for those with certain visual disabilities.
However, a cable dated December 9 that was sent to all US diplomatic posts said that typography shaped the professionalism of an official document and that Calibri was informal compared to serif typefaces.
“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,” the cable said.

I have no idea whether Calibri is in fact easier to read, but evidently the mere possibility that it might be easier to read for some people with certain reading issues is enough for the regime to cancel it, because fuck people being to read, apparently. Informal? I mean, it’s not fucking Comic Sans, is it…

Anyway, for some reason I then found myself looking up Calibri on Google…

…and, hilariously, when I did so the whole search page appears in Calibri. I presume this is something they’ve just done for the occasion of this news (cos it’d be a slightly silly thing to do on the regular), but they also don’t seem to have announced they’d done it. I kind of like that as much as anything…