I guess Calibri isn’t Marco Rubio’s type. | Image: Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images
The US State Department is turning back to an old typeface in its latest quest to tear up anything related to diversity or accessibility. In an internal document seen by Reuters and The New York Times, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the Biden-era decision to switch to Calibri typeface in official department communications was a "wasteful" diversity move, and ordered employees to revert back to using Times New Roman font in official communications.
Times New Roman was phased out by the State Department in 2023 in favor of Calibri under former Secretary of State Antony Blinken in an effort to improve accessibility for readers wit …