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 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 agency is now using the Calibri font in all of its communications. The department has been using Times New Roman since 2004. The font change was recommended by the Internal Diversity and ...

Amid a number of ongoing global crises and instability across the world, the State Department under President Biden is working on ensuring "accessible" font choices in its documents. According to ...

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 ...

and Times New Roman. Now it's in the hands of a private equity firm. This is the perfect font for people who cheat at school Put that double space down, there’s a new way to pad your school essays.

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 ...

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 ...

“As a sans-serif 21st-century font, Calibri certainly gives the State Department a more contemporary voice than the antique Times New Roman,” Horne says. Nix, meanwhile, believes the switch ...