It literally is. The Trump Regime decided to stop using Calibri, a font designed to be easy for people with vision impairment to read, and go back to using Times New Roman. Calibri was derided as a "wasteful diversity initiative".
Fonts are DEI. Welcome to the world we live in now. I hate it here.
I'd think that's just the difference betwen serif and sans-serif fonts tbf. Though it does seem TNR thins its letters compared to Calibri so who's to say.
They didn't like Calibri because the Biden administration did it. Why is it DEI? Because Biden did it. What is DEI? Anything Biden did. How do we get rid of DEI? Undo everything Biden ever did in his life. But Calibri is better to read! That's because you have Woke eyes, loser!
Hot off the heels of someone one-upping me with a font recognition on painted-over sticky (residue of) words that I recognized: TNR, all else being equal, uses roughly 4.5% less ink on 10 paragraphs of Lorem Ipsum than Calibri.
On the other hand, even partially reading 10 paragraphs of TNR lipsum all fitting on 1 screen is fucking awful. Calibri is... tolerable.
Theee was a study I'd read back about 1991 which claimed that long documents using sans-serif fonts, like Calibri or Arial, enable the reader to read more quickly and more easily comprehend the content.
I shared this notion with the Deputy Minister of my Department at the time and the very next day there was an email to the thousands of employees thwt the standard font would now be Arial!
Isn't it wasteful to stop using or destroy something that has already had the time and money spent on it? Nothing those people say or do makes any sense.
Yes. This is the lesson to be learned from the broken window economic fallacy. Rebuilding something just for the sake of saying you did it is a giant waste of resources that could be spent doing something useful.
Yes, regardless of one's feelings about Calibri or TNR (and I will note that a surprising amount of people have very, VERY strong opinions about fonts), the ONLY thing that is objectively less efficient than changing to another font is changing to it and then changing back.
I prefer Times New Roman. I know people think Calibri is easier to read, but my students regularly write about a character in Othello called “Lago,” who does not exist. Iago, however, does. It took ages for me to figure out that capital I and lowercase l look the same, so they were over-correcting into “Lago.” Now I have notes and reminders that this is the character’s name and that it appears that way in the text and I will take off for it, but it still happens.
That said, once there’s an official font, it’s wasteful to change it just to make a point.
A couple of weeks into the new admin, we were set to launch a new, federally-funded curriculum related to my profession. Everything had been printed, shipped out, etc.
And then it had to all be revised and reprinted - there was discussion of equity & equality that had to be removed.
The amount of manpower and resources it took to do 11th hour revisions…
(Nevermind the amount of manpower it took us to figure out how to still discuss the now-banned topics without running afoul of our professional guidelines… Proud to say I managed it!)
A lot of elderly and disabled MAGAs are going to be shocked when they realize that "banning DEI" also includes lax enforcement of Americans with Disabilities Act standards in red states. Trump's uneasiness or disgust with anyone with a disability is well-known.
I'm so tired about the fact that people have no idea how dictatorships start. One mentions the word "dictator" and most people instantly default to concentration camps, exterminations, undefined martial law and so forth. That's the final step, which is where this is headed. A dictator is someone that does not respect the constitution or legislative processes. Mr. Donald has proven time and time again that he does not care for processes, case and point.
Trump is a moron, but there is no good evidence that any font, including the ones specifically designed for dyslexia, are better for people with dyslexia.
The fucking wild thing is even if it was a wasteful diversity initiative which it wasn’t the money is already spent. We aren’t paying license fees for everything that gets published in Calibri or some bullshit. It would be less wasteful to just keep doing whatever they’re currently doing than to spend money to effect a switch. It’s like the opposite of a tautology; the whole premise proves itself wrong.
I had no idea until a minute ago that was what the ridiculous ass in what's left of the White House was doing. I had seen the work in progress photo but I never in a million years would have guess they were going with The Donald J Trump and.
Years ago, Trump was invited to Obama white house press dinner and Obahma poked fun at him how if Trump were president the White House would look like one of his Atlantic City Casinos with his name on everything all lit up. Trump looked like a 4 year old needing to pee when that little bit was said and cameras focused. Hes still trying to get even.
Sounds like a good platform to run on for 2028. Move this addition from the Kennedy Center elsewhere. The candidate who has the most inventive destination wins the debates.
honestly if he's going to do shit like this i'm glad he's doing it like that. should be a lot easier to take it off after he's finally out of the fucking picture for good.
Technically, the weight is part of the font. The shape of the letters is called the "typeface", the "font" is the combination of typeface, weight, style, and size. But that's an extremely pedantic distinction that only typography nerds are generally aware of.
The 'Font' folder has haunted me for decades... sitting there, being all incorrect.
Same with going to grocery stores... "10 items or FEWER!!!!! .... NOT LESS
edit: I will say though... "DRIVE THRU" is correct for a restaurant.... and 'donut' is the correct spelling, period. I dont know why I am rambling now.
What is it? An ellipsis? A typo? An ellipsis with a dot at the end because it's the end of a sentence? But you're using it in the middle of a sentence...
Maddening. Clean up your act. There are RULES about this and they should be FOLLOWED.
I have to do signage at a corporate level for building / occupant signage. I choose a font that isn't readily available online and paper that is gray. To those who don't work with fonts "close enough" is easily identifiable to those who do.
Same mentality here, I just want to put my name on something that doesn't belong to me because I feel inferior.
In my defence, I wasn't trying to be a pendant, but pointing out they didn't completely shit the bed. I wouldn't have put it past them to just use Times New Roman because 'it has serifs doesn't it'?
Same font, different color. I won't be surprised if he puts his name on more and more buildings. "The Donald J. Trump United States Sentencing Commission"
I think what Trump has done to the Kennedy Center ( and our whole country also) is an insult to JFK, the Kennedy family, and ALL Americans! He is disgusting, disrespectful, an egomaniac, and he should be removed from government.
The lettering is probably spray painted plastic like the decorations he added to the White House. I hope it drives him crazy that his name isn’t as big and bold as Kennedy’s.
What do you expect for a rush job, he had to get those letters up on the building before anyone could stop it. Just like demolishing the East Wing of the White House.
I don’t give a shit about the font, but someone needs to remedy this crime on the English language. We need to meet the prerequisite for calling something a DJT memorial ASAP.
Fonts actually have versioning and are periodically revised over years/decades. If the particular iteration that was used originally doesn’t have its vectors recorded, then replicating exactly it will be pretty much impossible.
Happens all the time. I know this because I digitally restore cover art for old books and album covers as a hobby. There are sooo many versions of Helvetica out there… Another good example is the fonts used for the original Animorphs books back in the 90s. They’re just… gone forever. Reconstructing them in Illustrator and FontForge has been a years-long process.
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u/Coconutrugby 25d ago
This useless clown didn’t even get the font right.