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December 13, 2025Kiss that Calibri goodbye! U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has officially ordered the U.S. State Department to return to using the most OG of fonts, Times New Roman.
Now why was the typeface for the State Department changed at all, you ask? Because diversity.
No, I am not making this up.
Rubio, who has sought to eliminate DEIA elements within the department, wrote in the memo, “To restore decorum and professionalism to the Department’s written work products and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program, the Department is returning to Times New Roman as its standard typeface.”
Blinken ordered the switch in 2023, replacing Times New Roman, which had been the official font of the department for 20 years. Before that, Courier New was the typeface until 2004.
As The Times reported, “The change was meant to improve accessibility for readers with disabilities, such as low vision and dyslexia, and people who use assistive technologies, such as screen readers.”
The Biden administration’s switch had been recommended by the department’s office of diversity and inclusion, an office that Rubio abolished this year as part of the Trump administration’s push to dismantle DEI programs throughout the federal government.
Rubio’s memo, which had the subject line, “Return to Tradition: Times New Roman 14-Point Font Required for All Department Paper,” argued that “Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department’s official correspondence.”
He added that it was a “wasteful” diversity move that failed to meet its goal of being more accessible.
He’s right, it was a wasteful move. I imagine there were a lot of printing costs associated with the shift during Antony Blinken’s time as Secretary of State, and for what? So State Department communications could look like a fashion blog?
Times New Roman is the go-to font for professionalism, which is what I would expect from the State Department. I highly doubt Russia or North Korea are sending out memos with a sans-serif font, just sayin’.
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