Neither could those jumping on the trend, many of whom simply shared their font opinions because Times New Roman was trending. (One friendly Xer speculated the trend had something to do with a viral ...

Although the change is facing pushback, this is not the first time the State Department has implemented a font change to internal documents. The font was exchanged for Times New Roman in 2004, but ...

But while it’s younger than Times, Calibri is not the most modern of fonts. Microsoft adopted Calibri as its default typeface in 2007, but in 2021 the company indicated plans to phase it out.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken directed staff to begin using a 14-point Calibri font for department paperwork on Feb. 6, after nearly 20 years of using Times News Roman as the standard font.

"The Department has used Times New Roman as its standard font for paper going to the 7th floor since February 1, 2004; however, fonts like Times New Roman have serifs ('wings' and ‘feet’) or ...

A font feud brews after State Dept. picks Calibri over Times New Roman ‘The Times (New Roman) are a-Changin,’ read the subject line of a cable from Secretary of State Antony Blinken to U.S ...

Funnily enough, the State Department is taking the same step Microsoft did way back in 2007, when it also replaced Times New Roman with the then-new Calibri as the default font for documents.

The U.S. State Department has changed its style. Font style, that is. The agency is now using the Calibri font in all of its communications. The department has been using Times New Roman since 2004.

A-hed Font Wars Spread After State Department Replaces Times New Roman With Calibri ‘I’m banging my head against the wall;’ camps divided in fallout from government efforts to make documents ...

With Office 2007, though, Calibri replaced it as the default — unless, of course, you manually set it back to Times New Roman, something I assume was very common in the State Department, which ...

Arial and Times New Roman aren’t the only default fonts: Courier New, Georgia, Verdana, and Helvetica are as well, which makes them equally sustainable.

Mac OS X 10.5.5 exhibits problems with the display of some fonts when rendering PDF files, in which various characters seem to be distorted, causing difficulty reading documents.