The U.S. State Department is going sans serif: It has directed staff at home and overseas to phase out the Times New Roman font and adopt Calibri in official communications and memos, in a bid to ...

Funnily enough, the State Department is taking the same step Microsoft did way back in 2007, when it also replaced Times New Roman with the then-new Calibri as the default font for documents.

The font replaced Times New Roman across Microsoft Office back in ... It's made of varying geometric shapes and described as bold, well-defined, directive, and constrained. Daniels adds that ...

The State Department will switch its official font from Times New Roman to Calibri next month in an effort to increase accessibility, a department spokesperson said. Secretary of State Antony ...

The department has used Times New Roman since 2004, when it switched from another serif font, Courier New. Serif fonts “have an extra flourish that makes it look pretty for many people ...

big news for font freaks: Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department & replaced by Calibri. Secretary Blinken sent a cable to all embassies today directing staff not to send him ...

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The Secretary of State is asking for a font change to improve accessibility and readability. People have feelings. The Secretary of State is asking for a font change to improve accessibility and ...

[Related: This wacky-looking font can help you remember what your read.] Despite the State Department’s usage of Times New Roman since 2004, its “decorative, angular features… can produce ...

In fact, there’s a pretty succinct reason as to why Calibri became yesterday’s font: It’s all about resolution. It’s no coincidence that Calibri first replaced Times New Roman within ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is replacing its Calibri default font with Aptos, a new ...

It is a digital-first typeface, as opposed to Times New Roman, which was created in 1931 for print newspapers and then reverse-engineered into a digital font. Calibri also has a larger character ...