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Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI (techcrunch.com)

submitted 2 months ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] Magister@lemmy.world 119 points 2 months ago (5 children)

A font is woke?

[–] starik@lemmy.zip 161 points 2 months ago (2 children)

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 53 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They don't even dislike the font itself. They dislike that it was designed with accessibility in mind. Because they are evil assholes.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago

Yeah that's what's fucked up. It's easier to read if you have dyslexia. So they're getting rid of it just to be assholes.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Don't tell them about Atkinson Hyperlegible. It'd melt their brains

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

[–] lime@feddit.nu 36 points 2 months ago

being able to read is woke, so they're going back

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They changed the style guide during the Biden administration IIRC. TNR to MS Office default Calibri.

The rule is "everything they did is woke" so by their reckoning, yup. Woke as fuck. It's like:

#1 MLK Jr. Day Exists #2 Juneteenth nee holiday #3 Calibri font

[–] Kjell@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My local news site wrote that they changed back to times new roman because the calibri font was developed for people who had difficulties to read (like dyslexia I assume), thus DEI and the current administration has to change it back.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 12 points 2 months ago

Yeah, exactly. They got the handover notes of what their DEI program accomplished. That's a list of things to undo.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i think their reasoning for the change also was that it’s easier to read for certain people with disabilities

… so that’s where they get the DEI part from

… but… wasteful? what the actual fuck

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

I'm sure the "wasteful" part is it took staff time to send a memo about it.

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

No, Rubio and those like him are just morons.

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I'd like to think comic sans is due for some more hate - does that count?