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anything on digital.gov is at best on life support given 18F was disbanded and much of the government digital service efforts have been neglected
by ronbenton 10mo ago
anything on digital.gov is at best on life support given 18F was disbanded and much of the government digital service efforts have been neglected
- tootie 10mo agoThe Secretary of State recently decreed that sans serif fonts were woke and mandated all communications use Times New Roman.
- stephenhuey 10mo agoI doubt they got the memo.
- faefox 10mo agoGod, I was so hopeful that you were joking but I guess I should know better by now.
- nicbou 10mo agoI thought it was a joke, then I checked. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/trump-times-new-roman-font-return-state-department https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/trump-times-... The quote is milder and the "woke" bit was added by others, but the context is essentially correct. In an interview, the font's creator took it as a compliment and was a good sport about it.
- rpastuszak 10mo agoI'd say “wasteful” diversity move == woke in this context, not sure if that's milder. Just another distraction thrown at us to keep us at each other's throats. (+ keeping better alignment with the carrot man's branding) Psychoanalysing politicians aside, serif fonts used to be considered more legible, but that doesn't hold any more that much (e.g. much of research shows that people tend to underestimate familiarity when assessing legibility).
- dheera 10mo agoTimes New Roman is the worst serif font they could have picked.
- Ethan_Barry 10mo agoTo be fair, it's replacing Calibri, so it's still an improvement. We should just use Garamond or Caslon for everything, but that'll never happen. :(
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- RobotToaster 10mo agoI'd go with Baskerville personally.
- dheera 10mo agoI like Crimson Pro
- mananaysiempre 10mo agoThe other frontpage article on the same topic[1] makes a fairly good case that both Times and Calibri suck in this role (not least because they are default fonts and receive the social connotations of that) and notes in passing that the US Supreme Court uses Century Schoolbook, IMO a solid choice (helped also by their competent formatting) and perhaps a less artsy look than Garamond &co. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432862 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432862
- theraido 10mo agoHistory of the Schwabacher Judenletter repeats
- nicbou 10mo agoInteresting! I knew that the Nazis repudiated Fraktur fonts in 1941 but I never knew the story behind it.
- joshcsimmons 10mo agoI actually agree with this but TNR is so tired for a serif font.
- karel-3d 10mo agoThe fonts are open and on github