What Type Of Bonkers Is This...?

Mr. Marco Rubio, Esq. hath decreed that Official Documents, at least those in his area of the USA's governance, shalt not use Calibri typeface, replacing it with Times Roman..

Not for aesthetics, personal taste or other logical reason, but apparently for some "political" reason.

The BBC News programme asked Calibri's Dutch inventor his views. He thought it rather amusing but also rather sad.

He devised it to be easy to read on computer screens. It's a sans-serif typeface similar to that used here, probably Ariel or Verdana.

Times Roman, with its serifs, was designed to be easy to read in large blocks of print in newspapers in books; as are the slightly similar Baskerville and Bookman Old Style.

(All these fonts are in the standard MS 'Word' library.)

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Reminds me a bit of the stuff-and-nonsense a privatised, former UK-government, agency thought clever. According to friends who had worked for it, it hired a "brand consultancy" to invent an awkward company name and far more wastefully, a "company typeface" that turned out indistinguishable from the Ariel already on all of its office computers.

All of which shows that senior politicians and company directors alike can be as naive as the most fashion-conscious teenagers, when they spot the latest sociological or commercial "must-have".