Why the State Department is the new ambassador for the Calibri font

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A 19-year-long alliance with Times New Roman will end next month.

“From a design perspective, I think moving to Calibri from Times New Roman is a bit of a loss,” argues, a Chicago-based graphic designer specializing on lettering and type design. “TNR is old-fashioned and serious, and seems more apt for the State Department than Calibri, which has a ‘friendlier’ look given its rounded corners and sans-serif construction.”

There’s also the near-ubiquity of Times New Roman across both PC and Mac devices. “Times New Roman is one of the very few typefaces that is virtually guaranteed to come pre-installed on any computer, including Macs, since it was one of eleven fonts deemed by Microsoft in the ’90s as the ‘core fonts for the web,'” continued Shutters.

According to the official message from the State Department, the Department’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion alongside the Executive Secretariat and the Bureau of Global Talent Management’s Office of Accessibility and Accommodations all agree on the switch to Calibri, as well as the cable’s explicit mention that it’s Microsoft’s current go-to font. As

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