Rubio orders State Dept to stop using "Calibri" font claiming it's DEI. In 1941, Nazi Germany banned the Fraktur font as being a "Jewish font".
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Rubio has time to micromanage at this level? It's not about the font so. So, what is it about?
I don't know what is really going on.
I do know that it is creepy and frightening.
@lauren do you think he knows that he's using Arabic numerals?
@lauren OMG! When I write a letter, am I using handwriting that might look "Jewish"? Or gay?
Typing from here on in. Gonna have to police my every habit. I may even chew wrong!
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@lauren wow, not even a fan of Calibri but switching to it in as many places as I can. Did not have that on my anti-fascist bingo card.
Lucas de Groot must be feeling pretty good being called out in opposition to the griftreich and as a hero of DEI.
#typography
@lauren or maybe they’ve got a whole bunch of documents that need *altering*
@lauren "Your alleged Gothic internalization does not fit well in this age of steel and iron, glass and concrete, of womanly beauty and manly strength, of head raised high and intention defiant..." Marco Rubio. Oh, uh, no. Adolph Hitler. I have a hard time telling them apart.
Ah, so we're really aiming for the fall of the Roman empire vibe. #Rubio is such a putz.
Here's Lucas de Groot, maker of #Calibri, on the change.
@lauren Rubio's right... Comic Sans is more representative of him and the administration he serves...
@lauren I refuse it because it's a sans-serif font. I do not like those.
@lauren Huh?! I thought the Nazis loved Fraktur.. that's why they put it all over their stuff. I guess the Neonazis who keep using that on their shirts and posters have failed even that one history lesson.
I would like to conjecture why he came up with such an idea. Read how it’s described when you see all sorts of triggering words to alight the right wing mind on fire.
I did some quick searching and reading, and the axis around which caliphate was chosen, was legibility on electronic media.
In favor of Times Roman is that the type face itself supports just about every character in existence and for scientific papers in particular this is a godsend.
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