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State Department to switch from “woke” default Microsoft font to old British newspaper typeface

Rob Beschizza
Dec 10, 2025
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Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State (Maxim Elramsisy/shutterstock.com)

Calibri, a modern sans-serif typeface designed to be readable on screen and page alike, was commissioned by Microsoft and made the Office suite default in 2006. Secretary of State Marco Rubio finds it too woke and has ordered diplomats to use the previous default: Times New Roman, de…

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