This administration doesn’t do anything for no reason. It seems to me they search out the most ridiculous / offensive / masculine reason that can conceivably be applied and go with it.
The SoS could have just directed the change because serif fonts are more “formal” and be done with it, but that’s a reason that’s based in human opinion. It doesn’t portray the SoS as a vigorous defender of decency, crusader against DEI, and masculine he-man who does what’s right regardless of what the libs think.
I agree. There was no reason for this to be presented as a political issue. This makes me wonder if Rubio chose to make it a political issue because of Trump. Trump has an obsession with Biden and Rubio might have been doing some ass kissing by making a trivial issue into a supposed attack on a Biden appointee.
Quite possibly. There’s also the aspect of Trump and his administration pushing the “we need to destroy DEI” narrative, and it’s clear that they feel that accessibility is DEI bullshit.
If this was something Hegseth was doing, I’d agree that he’s crazy enough to actually believe the nonsense he’s saying. But I feel Rubio is sane just completely amoral. I feel Rubio is fully aware that Trump is stupid, incompetent, and a criminal - but Rubio is willing to play along with all that because it’s benefitting him personally.
It really makes the administration look foolish, even compared to some of the other stuff they’ve done. And for their supporters… I guarantee there are some of them that are asking why they should care about a font. It was a huge misstep. Which makes me agree with you, that this was just something Trump came up with at some point, looking at a couple of documents and complaining that one didn’t look as fancy as the other, and demanding that Rubio do something about it. I can easily believe his deteriorating brain might think this was something worth a priority.
I have the impression that TNR was removed and Calibri was adopted because the two fonts were less/more readable for everyone, not specifically because they were less/more readable for the visually disabled.
I think that’s the dumb-ass interpretation of “more readable on digital devices” that some knucklehead in the current administration arrived at, but I don’t think it’s the actual intent of the change.
Now the actual intent of the change back is definitely to give a tiny middle finger to the “Woke” crowd by reverting back to what they consider the non-woke status quo ante. Which is all the more stupid if you read the original font change as being more readable for everyone.
Nope, Arial is bigger/wider. Type a sentence in Calibri 11 point, on the next line type one in Arial 10 point; they will be the same length.
I think proclamations from Cheeto should be written in Dear Teacher as proof of his fitness since it shows he’s on track with citizens of similar mental age.
Obviously, there have been studies, but has any (meta)study ever shown unequivocally that there is a significant difference between serif and sans-serif typefaces “for everyone”, even on computer screens, especially compared to fundamental layout considerations?
I can buy that the “digital devices” line refers to some specific study, but, as you say, perhaps that was not the point. I mean, has the Secretary of State even tried to justify, via bullshit or otherwise, which font might look “better”, versus making it not what the other guy used?
My understanding is that, for at least some vision problems, magnification alone doesn’t really help. Some vision problems cause blurriness, regardless of size, and apparently some fonts are more legible to people with that sort of issue.
It’s not the font. Lil’ Marco had to do something. Noem and Kegsbreath are actively killing brown people. Killing a Biden font is the best he can do to curry favor during the phoney staff meetings.
