As part of scrapping diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives from Joe Biden, the US State Department is replacing ‘informal’ Calibri font with traditional Times New Roman.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the ‘informal’ Calibri font, which was introduced in 2023 in a bid to help make documents more readable for those with disabilities, would be replaced beginning December 10.
Rubio, on the other hand, said in a memo that Times New Roman would be reintroduced to ‘restore decorum and professionalism to the department’s written work’.
‘Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department’s official correspondence,’ he added.
The changes are already in effect and apply to both internal and external state department documents.
The creator of the Calibri typeface, Lucas de Groot, told the BBC: ’Calibri was designed to facilitate reading on modern computer screens – it was chosen to replace TNR – the typeface that Rubio wants to go back to now.’
Since retaking office, Trump has labelled DEI programs and initiatives as ‘discrimination’.
His orders are eliminating diversity programs in the federal government and have pressured private companies to ditch DEI for merit-based hiring.
The so-called ‘war on woke’ has also seen Trump change the name of the US Department of Defence to the Department of War.
Trump claimed that former President Harry Truman changed the agency’s name to the Department of Defence in 1947 for ‘political correctness’ and because the nation ‘decided to go woke’.
His hatred of ‘woke’ also prompted Trump to withdraw the US from UNESCO, which he claimed has a ‘globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our America First foreign policy’.
UNESCO was founded after World War II to promote peace internationally through collaborative efforts in culture, education and science.
Trump has already pulled the US out of the World Health Organisation and the UN Human Rights Council.
The US first withdrew from UNESCO in 1983 when then-President Ronald Reagan decided that the agency ‘has extraneously politicised virtually every subject it deals with’ and ‘has exhibited hostility toward a free society, especially a free market and a free press, and it has demonstrated unrestrained budgetary expansion’.
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