The department has used Times New Roman since 2004, when it switched from another serif font, Courier New. Serif fonts “have an extra flourish that makes it look pretty for many people ...

The U.S. State Department is going sans serif: It has directed staff at home and overseas to phase out the Times New Roman font and adopt Calibri in official communications and memos, in a bid to ...

The key difference between the two fonts from an accessibility perspective is that Times New Roman is a serif font, meaning it has extra strokes on the ends of the larger lines that make up the ...

Almost two decades ago!), Microsoft replaced Times New Roman as its default font, opting for the sans-serif Calibri (which has since been usurped by a suite of fonts called Aptos). Last year, the U.S.

headlined “The Times (New Roman) are a-Changin,” ala Bob Dylan, saying they will be changing the font for high-level internal documents to the larger sans-serif font, Calibri, from Times New ...

when it also replaced Times New Roman with the then-new Calibri as the default font for documents. The reasoning was largely the same: sans serif was more readable and people weren’t printing as ...

The Secretary of State is asking for a font change to improve accessibility and readability. People have feelings. The Secretary of State is asking for a font change to improve accessibility and ...

At the time he was the art advisor at Monotype, a company founded by Steve Matteson, another notorious font designer. Times ...

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The State Department has used Times New Roman for its official communications since 2004. Now it’s switching to the sans-serif Calibri in an effort to improve accessibility. A delightfully nerdy ...