In The Emperor, Ryszard Kapuściński’s classic portrait of autocratic senility, Emperor Haile Selassie orders a great palace to be built in Ethiopia’s Ogaden Desert, keeps a liveried staff there for ...

The typeface, the target of the State Department’s typographical about-face, has been entangled in politics before. By Yan Zhuang It has been a key player in a corruption scandal and regularly ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — What's in a font? Apparently, a lot of connotations about diversity, equity and inclusion — at least according to the Trump administration. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who ...

Former Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken made the decision that the State Department would use Calibri beginning in 2023 ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Former Secretary of State Antony J.

The font was changed two years ago to assist readers with visual disabilities. There's a new serif in town! The Calibri font is going the way of the typewriter at the State Department after Secretary ...

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 ...

“Serif typefaces remain the standard in courts, legislatures, and across federal agencies where the permanence and authority of the written record are paramount,” the State Department spokesperson ...

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 ...

Good morning. We’re in for a cloudy and potentially rainy day, with highs around 47. Wind gusts could push 30 mph. More clouds overnight, with lows near 30. The Capital City Go-Go host the Maine ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful,” casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts. By Michael ...