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Thursday, 11 December 2025 10:32
Secretary of state picks a fight with a serif
Microsoft's default Calibri is too "woke"
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio tightened his grip on the culture war by ordering diplomats to ditch Calibri typefaces for Times New Roman, apparently unaware that the venerable serif has spent decades carrying some of the most “woke” books ever printed.
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Wednesday, 12 July 2017 12:00
Microsoft’s typeface at centre of government corruption case
High calibri row
A typeface which was created in 2004 and made a default option on PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and WordPad by Microsoft in 2007, is currently sitting at the centre of a corruption investigation involving Pakistan's Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif.