A shift in typography has reignited an ideological dispute inside the U.S. foreign-policy establishment. An internal cable, reviewed by Reuters, shows Secretary of State Marco Rubio has rescinded a ...

In a memo to the department on Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed U.S. diplomats worldwide to use Times New Roman 14-point font for official documents, reversing a Biden-era directive to ...

The Calibri font is the latest government worker to be fired from the Trump administration for its association with diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. In an action that reads like a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stephen Colbert hosts "The Late Show" on Dec. 3, 2025. (CBS) Secretary of State Marco Rubio mandated this week that the Calibri ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. "Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department's official correspondence," Rubio said in the memo. That's ...

If I had to pick a word to describe Calibri, the sans-serif typeface that was the default font for Microsoft apps from 2007 to 2024, it would probably be “inoffensive.” Sure, Microsoft’s “extremely ...

The United States government has changed its typeface again—yes, literally its typeface—and in doing so has reignited a cultural skirmish few outside graphic-design world could have predicted. With a ...

A delightfully nerdy debate has erupted over the past 48 hours. Based on a hard-hitting leak obtained from The Washington Post, the State Department is planning to ditch Times New Roman for all of its ...

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomatic correspondence to stop using the Calibri font and return to the more traditional Times New Roman effective Wednesday, reversing a ...

Calibri and Times New Roman have been at war for years. And now the two fonts are once again pitted against each other after the U.S. State Department declared it will be swapping its current official ...

Lucas de Groot started work on the Calibri typeface in 2002, and it became the default in Microsoft's Office apps, such as Word and Excel, in 2007. This week Microsoft revealed five fonts it ...

Lucas de Groot, a Dutch typeface designer living in Berlin, recently began receiving a flood of calls and e-mails from Pakistan that, he said, “seemed very urgent.” He soon discovered that Calibri, a ...