Coachella 2026 may be rife with influencers, but at least its billboards are a good sign for creative direction.

Fonts are not neutral. This may seem strange, since from an early age, we learn not to really notice it. And yet, a huge part of our potential relationship with an object or document passes through ...

Mariyam Cementwala is a Foreign Service officer on leave from the State Department. When the State Department recently reversed a Biden administration policy change to use the Calibri font instead of ...

In times of political division, it can seem like just about everything, no matter how trivial, is fodder for debate. Recently, typefaces became a hot-button issue, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...

“The Daily Show” slammed Marco Rubio for wasting his time policing “woke” font usage at the State Department, blasting it as a “pathetic attempt to start a culture war.” During Thursday’s monologue, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. b' This week, Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, ordered diplomats to return to using the Times New Roman font in official ...

Jon Contino, the Wantagh- and Seaford-raised designer, greeted with dismay the news this week that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had directed the Department of State to use the Times New Roman ...

Calibri and Times New Roman have been at war for years. And now the two fonts are once again pitted against each other after the U.S. State Department declared it will be swapping its current official ...

A sans serif font, Secretary of State Marco Rubio just decreed, is simply inadequate for world-class diplomacy. Rubio on Tuesday ordered the agency to immediately cease using the Calibri font and go ...

The culture wars, not content with bending and blocking the words we read, apparently come for the typeface in which authors write those words, too. Three years ago, President Joe Biden’s Secretary of ...

This is a story about a font, the style of a text that appears on a printed page or digital screen. The State Department's official font is the latest front in the Trump administration's war on ...