Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants Times New Roman back — but why? Typography expert Charles Nix joins ChicagoLIVE to break down the “personalities” of fonts, why governments and brands standardize ...

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 State Department’s decision to stop using the Calibri typeface in favor of Times New Roman shook one community far removed from the workings of government: type designers. “I love it when, once in ...

Why did Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font instead of Calibri in ...

In times of political division, it can seem like just about everything, no matter how trivial, is fodder for debate.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, pictured at a ceremony at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington last week, has directed diplomats to bring back Times New Roman as their official font. Allison ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has dumped a Biden-era change to the State Department’s typeface, justifying the switch as ...

Times New Roman is a serif font that has been included in every version of Windows since Windows 3.11. Originally made for the newspaper "The Times of London" in 1931, Times New Roman has been a ...

There’s more to font choices than what looks nice, and some experts said it would make for easier reading. By Daniel Victor Wading into a debate that has divided designers and accessibility experts ...

It’s the rise of the Roman Empire at the U.S. State Department — Times New Roman, that is. In a memo to the department on Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed U.S. diplomats worldwide to ...

It’s a familiar Washington story: government agencies that just can’t seem to get on the same page. In this instance, quite literally. Earlier this week, a memo from Secretary of State ANTONY BLINKEN ...