Memo from Marco Rubio reportedly said cutting Calibri from official communication would ‘abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program

US diplomats have been ordered to return to using the Times New Roman typeface in official communications, with secretary of state Marco Rubio calling the Biden administration’s decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.

The department under Rubio’s predecessor Antony Blinken switched to Calibri in 2023, claiming the modern sans-serif typeface was more accessible for people with disabilities because it did not have the decorative angular features and was the default in Microsoft products.

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      Yes, it’s hidden somewhere in the disk and it’s a normal font file, otherwise

      It’s in AppData\Local\Microsoft\FontCache\4\CloudFonts\

      It’s not only Aptos, office 365 expands the font selection with ~100 exclusive “cloud” fonts that are hidden to other non-microsoft apps