Hello everyone, I am JVL here with my bulwark colleague, Hannah Yost, and you are here for

bulwark font talk.

Graphic Design Nerds of the World Unite because yesterday, Marco Rubio announced that the

Department of State is making a bold change. They are done with the Calibri font, and they're going

pure Times New Roman, and design nerds all across the country are now fighting about this.

Hannah, let's start with a baseline take here. Where are you on Calibri versus Times New Roman?

Ben, our other senior editor who's now back, both agree that this is like the classic case of the Trump administration having the wrong process, but the right outcome.

So, yeah, we should kill Calibri, absolutely.

But it has a reputation of being soft and modern.

It does not read professional.

It reads as kid book should not be set in a kind of more juvenile looking typeface.

It should be in something sophisticated like Times New Roman,

something with a seraph that, you know, conveys professionalism and so on and so forth.

So Anthony Blinken made this change of going from Times New Roman to Calibri.

It was, I don't know if this is the only reason,

but I think one of the reasons given was that it came out of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion,

which sounds like black people,

but in this case really meant people who had eye trouble and like dyslexia.

This is, again, unclear if the Republicans just think by saying woke,

everybody assumes that means brown people.

This was really just talking about people with eyesight problems.

Before Blinken had made his change, for 20 years, you go back before that, they had been using Courier New.

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