Calibri font is the latest casualty in the Trump administration's war on diversity and inclusion

In a memo to the department on Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed U.S. diplomats worldwide to use Times New Roman 14-point font for official documents, reversing a Biden-era directive to use Calibri.

It’s the rise of the Roman Empire at the U.S. State Department — Times New Roman, that is.

In a memo to the department on Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed U.S. diplomats worldwide to use Times New Roman 14-point font for official documents, reversing a Biden-era directive to use Calibri.

The memo, titled “Return to Tradition,” said that the new standard font would “reflect the same dignity, consistency, and formality expected in official government correspondence.”

Times New Roman 14, a serif font, had been the State Department standard since 2004, but in 2023, the agency switched to Calibri, a sans serif typeface, at the recommendation of the Secretary’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion to mitigate accessibility issues for individuals with disabilities.

With a sans serif typeface, the letters do not include tails and wings on their edges as serif typefaces do.