War on Fonts!

Trump has told all government depts that they must go back to using Times New Roman fonts, rather than Calibri which was being used, I think this was brought in by Biden as so many people, have problems reading TNR.

Apart from the sheer ridiculousness of this, what is it about different fonts that exercises people so much? I've come across font purists before who go on about how some fonts are some kind of abomination, like comic sans. I like comic sans as a dyslexic person it's the easiest to read, but some people get in a real hissy about it, why?

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  • I didn't know there was such a thing as an acceptable font. Our letters at work use Arial because it is easy to read, but the emails use something else. I imagine the font on here might be Arial, but I wouldn't know how to change it.

    I have just reread your post and see it is government departments, which I missed the first time, thinking everyone had to use that and wondered what happened if you didn't. There seem to be so many rules there now. I believe that tourists will have to show their social media history before entering the country. I wonder what happens if you say you don't have any. Will it be like getting credit and they will refuse entry if you can't show any?

  • I'm reminded of this one.

    Along the same lines as use of commas to avoid ambiguity:

    "Proper capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse."

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