US President Donald Trump has unveiled a long-awaited US$12 billion farm aid package aimed at supporting farmers affected by the US-China trade tensions. He credited his tariff policies for making the aid possible and highlighted that his negotiations with China had contributed to the resumption of large soybean sales. Despite the announcement, not all farmers […]
…what’s this about Calibri?
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/marco-rubio-bans-calibri-font-at-state-department-for-being-too-dei/
Apparently calibri is too woke, so they’re reverting to using times new roman for government documents
I first learned how to use computers when Times New Roman was the default font in Word, but I’m not a stunted fuckup with daddy issues so I guess Calibri never bothered me.
But Mark my words, the Conservative of tomorrow will be working fervorously to return to the glory days of when Calibri was their default font, because Conservatives always yearn to return to the days of their youth, when the world wasn’t so big and scawey.
Apparently Times New Romans had only been the State department’s font for about twenty years
Yeah that’s about when I started using Word in Business Computers class.
Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI
I am also picky about what fonts I use, but only those that I use.
My requirements are
I usually use Liberation Mono, Adwaita Mono and Source Code Pro. I also really like Terminess Nerd Mono, but it only looks good if line width equals to 1 pixel. It’s really only meant for fixed resolution.
Well, Terminess isn’t doing so well with 1 and l.
Mouse pointer… eh, anyway.
I only use 3270. It is the one true font. At least for the terminal.
https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
I think attempting to read your second point gave me an annuerysm
You read non-code text in mono space? Who hurt you?
I just like predictably sized text. It makes more sense to me to have document width in characters rather than in inches.